Survival of the Fittest

No Time for Comedy. Old Idol Katharine Cornell and New Idol Laurence Olivier (see p. 57) in a talky but amusing comedy (TIME, May 1).

The Philadelphia Story. Katharine Hepburn at her most stunning in a clever, impolite Philip Barry comedy (TIME, April 10).

The Hot Mikado. Rousing hotcha with snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan (TIME, April 3).

The Little Foxes. Tense, biting drama with Tallulah Bankhead brilliantly imperious in the leading role (TIME, Feb. 27).

Stars in Your Eyes. Ethel Merman (* * * * ) and Jimmy Durante (* * * ) in a musicomedy about Hollywood (* *) (TIME, Feb. 20).

The American Way. Huge, many-throated rendition of The Stars & Stripes Forever (TIME, Jan. 30).

Outward Bound. Successful revival of Sutton Vane's dramatic story of people who discover they are dead (TIME, Jan. 2).

The Boys from Syracuse. Delightful Rodgers & Hart musical made from Shakespeare's dull Comedy of Errors (TIME, Dec. 5).

Leave It to Me. Victor Moore, never better, in a musical that is better than most (TIME, Nov. 21).

Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Robert E. Sherwood's eloquent tribute to Lincoln and democracy, crowned by the Pulitzer Prize (TIME, Oct. 24).

Hellzapoppin. A vaudevillainous cross between a fire in a lunatic asylum and the third day at Gettysburg (TIME, Oct. 3).

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