Best Plays in Manhattan
SERIOUS
PORGY—Negro tragedy made lively by the acting of a cast whose color will not run, under the superb direction of Rouben Mamoulian (TIME, Oct. 24).
COQUETTE—Helen Hayes making every-one cry in a play that contradicts some of the lilac legends about boys and girls in Dixie (TIME, Nov. 21).
STRANGE INTERLUDE—Eugene O'Neill's prolonged diagnosis of ills the flesh and the mind are heir to (TIME, Feb. 13).
MELODRAMA
THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN—High pressure who-did-it proceedings, in which a chorus girl...