Best Plays in Manhattan

SERIOUS

STRANGE INTERLUDE--Bleak and elaborate notes, by Eugene O'Neill and the Theatre Guild, on one woman's life (TIME, Feb. 13).

MACHINAL--Sophie Treadwells expert analysis of a woman who did murder for no profit (TIME, Sept. 17).

Also: Goin' Home, The War Song.

EXCITING

THE FRONT PAGE--"Goose him," "can." "fairy" and similar pressroom technicalities add to the speed of a dazzling play (TIME, June 4, Aug. 27).

NIGHT HOSTESS--A few more notes, sounded on gat and saxophone, on the theme of Broadway (TIME, Sept. 24).

FUNNY

THE HIGH ROAD--Edna Best, and others equally good, in a Lonsdale retake (TIME, Sept. 24).

ELMER THE GREAT--Ring Lardner's ball-playing dope, perfectly impersonated by Walter Huston (TIME, Oct. 8).

Also: Gentlemen of the Press.

MUSICAL

Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Good Boy, Billie, Chee Chee, Paris.