Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 9, 1925

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

Drama

WHAT PRICE GLORY?—Continues to be the successful portrayal of the mud and swear words and sincerity which were life on the Western Front. THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED —A picture of California with some of the sunshine omitted. The old man, the young wife, the inevitable lover. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS—Eugene O'Neill's treatment of the same old man, young wife and lover situation. More deeply tragic, more directly frank. WHITE CARGO — The horror of the white for the brown melts away...

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