The Theatre: The Best Plays: Aug. 17, 1925

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

Drama

WHAT PRICE GLORY?—Final month of the War play which seems by its truth and ribald humor to have ended War plays for the present.

WHITE CARGO—A somewhat artificial but theatrically effective portrait of an Englishman gone morally bankrupt in Africa.

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS—Eugene O'Neill's cutting testimony of the effects of loneliness and stinginess on a New England farm.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED —Wherein a cheap waitress marries a rich Italian farmer and finds his farm hand more attractive.

Comedy...

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