Best Plays in Manhattan

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important.

SERIOUS

AN ENEMY OP THE PEOPLE--Walter Hampden studiously revives Henrik Ibsen.

PORGY--The bitter adventures of a cripple in Charleston's Negro quarter.

Civic REPERTORY THEATRE--Eva Le Gallienne gives valuable dramas at $1.65.

THE LETTER--Katharine Cornell devotes more than enough talent to explain the motives of a murderess.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM--Reviewed in this issue.

COQUETTE--In which love and death shatter the fancies of a fickle woman. Helen Hayes is invaluable.

SPELLBOUND--Reviewed in this issue.

MELODRAMA

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN--Why girls go wrong and what may happen to them in a court of law.

INTERFERENCE--A carefully starched murder mystery involving some of England's best families.

BROADWAY--Still the leading expose of Manhattan midnight wickedness.

THE SPIDER--What happens when a magician has murder in his eye.

FUNNY

THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY--Vaudeville actors in their shirt sleeves managing a small town hotel.

THE COMMAND TO LOVE--More naughty than notable discussion of sex appeal in European diplomacy.

BURLESQUE--A very drunken dancer's love for the soubrette who was careless enough to marry him.

THE ROAD TO ROME--Jane Cowl sacrifices a woman's honor to make a Roman holiday.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW--Shakespeare in 1927.

MUSICAL

Good worry banishers are these: Manhattan Mary, The Mikado, Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Chauve-Souris, Good News.