The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 24, 1924

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

Drama

OUTWARD BOUND—An incisive and haunting study, admirably put on, of the Leviathan of Death making an-other trial trip to the hereafter with a passenger list of sinners, with only their sins for baggage.

THE MIRACLE—Splendid medieval mummery in a nunnery.

TARNISH—Middle class morality, with its eyes made to smart by the tinsel of Broadway.

IN THE NEXT ROOM—A suave demonstration that murder can be committed in a very well-bred manner.

SAINT JOAN—Bernard Shaw and the Theatre Guild mordantly prove that...

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