Best Plays in Manhattan

Boy Meets Girl--two cut-up scenarists and an unmarried mother demoralize a whole cinema lot.

Idiot's Delight--Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in the middle of Robert Sherwood's slightly premature European war.

Matrimony Pfd.--a trigonometrical sex figure in which Grace George gets A. E. Matthews.

On Your Toes--the Rodgers-Hart-Abbott musical ribbing of the Russian Ballet.

Reflected Glory--for Tallulah Bankhead fans.

Stage Door--after many a heartache, Margaret Sullavan crashes big-time show business.

Tobacco Road--Erskine Caldwell's lunatic crackers, now in their fourth year.

Tovarich--Marta Abba & John Halliday as two starving Russian nobles with a lot of money they cannot use.

Victoria Regina--a popular sentimental account of the widow's long reign, with Helen Hayes.

Red, Hot and Blue--Howard Lindsay's and Russel Grouse's third-rate puns. Cole Porter's second-rate music, Bob Hope's, Ethel Merman's and Jimmy Durante's first-rate performance.

Johnny Johnson--the Group Theatre's excellent musical indictment of a "bass ackwards" world.

Dead End--Sidney Kingsley's lively urchins on Norman Bel Geddes' realistic set of an East Side Manhattan slum.

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