The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan

Boy Meets Girl. Adventures of two cutup authors in a cinema studio. Funniest Hollywood show since Once In A Lifetime.

Dead End. Sidney Kingsley's slice of East Side Manhattan life exhibited on Norman Bel Geddes' realistic set.

First Lady. Jane Cowl as a Washington woman-behind-the-throne, with brisk dialog by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton. Jumbo. Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Durante, donkeys, deer and "dream women" in Billy Rose's new Hippodrome show. The Taming of the Shrew. Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne add new dimensions to a pleasant comedy by William Shakespeare. Winterset. Maxwrell...

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