The Theatre: Best Plays: Dec. 1, 1924

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

Drama

WHAT PRICE GLORY?—A battle song with some blood, no heroes and a blast of bitter irony. Deservedly the most popular play of the season.

CONSCIENCE—A mongrel mixture of good and bad playwriting made persuasive by Lillian Foster's performance of the girl who went wrong when her husband went to jail.

SILENCE—A back-switch melodrama of murder with very little literature but no end of excitement.

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS—Eugene O'Neill's drab dissertation on home life in...

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