New Plays

Hey, Nonny, Nonny! (by Max &

Nathaniel Lief and others; Haring & Del Bondio, producers) is not accompanied, as in the Of Thee I Sing lyric, with much hot-cha-cha. Instead, favoring the old Garrick Gaieties it runs to intellectual-looking chorus girls, bright antics, satire. Among its performers are cherubic Jerry Norris (an old Gaieties boy), Dorothy McNulty, Ann Seymour. Librettists and lyricists of the revue include Ogden Nash, Will Irwin, Frank Sullivan.

Mr. Sullivan's burlesque on Mourning Becomes Electra, the most elaborate buffoonery in the show, runs to punning. One character is mortally "a-Freud." another consents to a request with "Well, if you incest." Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the one who gets shot at the end of the rigmarole, but is happily saved from death by a telephone book which he has been concealing beneath his clothing the manuscript for his new play.

"In The Good Old Horsecar Days" presents three rummies singing a close relative to "Sweet Adeline" against an old-fashioned bar. There is also a travesty directed at the Metropolitan Opera Company, which is represented as producing Carmen with the assistance of Burlesque's Brothers Minsky. "For Better or Worse" seems the most tuneful musical number.

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