SERIOUS
COQUETTEA frail beauty in a small southern town disobeys her father, falls in love, commits suicide. Helen Hayes is the girl (TIME, Nov. 21).
STRANGE INTERLUDEThe Theatre Guild unveils Eugene O'Neill's nine act monument to a neurotic lady and the lovers who have failed to make her happy (TIME, Feb. 13).
TWELVE THOUSANDMary Ellis handsomely illustrating a demure and determined paragraph out of the unwritten history of Europe (TIME, March 26).
Other well-regarded serious plays: CIVIC REPERTORY PRODUCTIONS, MARCO MILLIONS.
MELODRAMA
THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGANIn the capacity of jury, the audience hears about a chorus girl who is guilty of much but not...