The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jan. 12, 1925

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

Drama

WHAT PRICE GLORY?—The muddy history of two marines and a French girl at the front, written and played with a brilliance surpassing anything in town.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED —Pauline Lord painting the portrait of a penniless Frisco waitress summoned by mail to marry an aged Italian peasant. Great acting in a good play.

WHITE CARGO—Look up miscegenation in the dictionary, imagine yourself marooned in a lonely African trading post and go to White Cargo, to see what would happen to you.

S. S. GLENCAIRN—Four of the early sea stories...

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