The Theatre: Drama

The Best Plays

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

Drama

“LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH !”—Lionel Barrymore in a shiny new version (Belasco) of the clown yarn—he who could smile for everyone but himself.

THE LADY—The rumble of melodrama returning like a pleasant echo from the hills of 20 years ago.

IN THE NEXT ROOM—Hushed melodrama of the who-killed-him school of mysteries.

SAINT JOAN—The Theatre Guild reaping further distinction with Bernard Shaw’s tonic chronicle of the deadliest female.

ROSEANNE—The bitterness of Southern Negro life told in a play with no white characters.

SUN UP-Primitive passions among the poor white peasants of the Carolina mountains.

TARNISH—Severe exposition of the theory that the male is a promiscuous animal.

OUTWARD BOUND—Reviewed in this issue.

Moscow ART THEATRE—The third appearance in Manhattan of the greatest repertory troupe.

RAIN—People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan.