The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, May 24, 1943

Oklahoma! Fresh-as-mint folk musical, with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and warm Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April 12).

The Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed, Pulitzer Prize-winning story of mankind, in which dinosaurs collide with bingo (TIME, Nov. 30).

The Eve of St. Mark. Maxwell Anderson's touching and timely play of the life & death of a soldier (TIME, Oct. 19).

Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of a first wife's ghost cooking a second wife's goose (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941).

Arsenic and Old Lace; or Murder Made Sidesplitting (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941).

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