The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 28, 1935

Battleship Gertie (by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Courtney Burr, producer). Last season Producer Burr made a lot of money out of a naval farce called Sailor, Beware! (TIME, Oct. 9, 1933.) Battleship Gertie was supposed to be smuttier and funnier than Sailor, Beware! It is not.

Laburnum Grove (by John Boynton Priestley; Gilbert Miller & Milton Shubert, producers). When cheerful Novelist Priestley discovered that all was right with the world—or soon would be—he began to make a small fortune out of his books (The Good Companions; English Journey). He is likely to make another fortune from...

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