The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 30, 1925

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

Drama

THE WILD DUCK—The driving power of Ibsen in an anti-idealistic drama said to be a satire on the playwright's own life story.

WHAT PRICE GLORY?—The mud and salty language of the U. S. marines rewritten by one who learned the lesson of the trenches.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED —About California, but human passions and the plight of a farmer whose wife betrayed him are substituted for the sunshine-cinema convention.

SILENCE—The season's single mystery...

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