The Theatre: Best Plays: Jul. 5, 1926

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

SERIOUS LULU BELLE—Lenore Ulric in an unrestrained tale of flaming youth in Manhattan’s negro district.

THE GREAT GOD BROWN—Eugene O’Neill’s searching and occasionally confusing study of brains on the auction block.

CRAIG’S WIFE—About a woman who wouldn’t let her husband smoke a pipe in her parlor.

LESS SERIOUS AT MRS. BEAM’S—The Theatre Guild’s English importation about a man who sliced up his wives with a sword.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY— Ina Claire in a brisk and polished nothing about stolen pearls in an English country house.

CRADLE SNATCHERS — The legend of three weary women who traded, temporarily, their husbands for three young men from college.

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS — Barrie’s glowing essay on charm admirably interpreted by Helen Hayes.

MUSICAL Warm evenings are easily endured at The Merry World, Iolanthe, Scandals, Cocoanuts, The Vagabond King, Sunny, No Foolin’.