The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 10, 1924

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

Drama

HELL-BENT PER HEAVEN—A modern realistic version of Tartuffe, with a southern religious fanatic working evil in the name of good, assisted by a cinema-esque flood.

SAINT JOAN—Shaw turned historical under the beneficent auspices of the Theatre Guild.

IN THE NEXT ROOM—The public appetite for mystery exploited in another shrouded discussion of who-killed-who.

TARNISH—The philosophies of sacred and profane love and their application to the modern youth.

THE MIRACLE—Moves a Manhattan theatre back to the shadows of the Middle...

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