The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, May 14, 1945

On & on & on go Life with Father, Oklahoma! and The Voice of the Turtle. Hits of the season:

Carousel. Charming, touching musical play made from Molnar's Liliom by Okla homa's Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (TIME, April 30).

The Glass Menagerie. Critics' Circle prizewinner, portraying a troubled, down-at-heel family, with the great Laurette Taylor superb as the mother (TIME, April 9).

The Deep Mrs. Sykes. George Kelly's acid portrait of a malicious woman that opens out into a group picture of mismated lives (TIME, April 2).

On the Town. Season's gayest,...

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