SERIOUS
STRANGE INTERLUDE—In which a lady and her lovers speak their minds through nine acts (TIME, Feb. 13).
MACHINAL—Zita Johann, a new and excellent actress, in a baldly tragic play about a murderess (TIME, Sept. 17).
FUNNY
THE ROYAL FAMILY—Smart and human comedy about a great old actress and her helter-skelter descendants (TIME, Jan. 9).
THE BACHELOR FATHER—June Walker and Geoffrey Kerr in a decently indecent play about illegitimate children—for two more weeks (TIME, March 12).
THE HIGH ROAD—The old one about the actress and the English Lord—with new jokes and a bitter ending (TIME, Sept. 24).
EXCITING
THE SILENT HOUSE—A fiend in need is a fiend indeed (TIME, Feb. 20).
THE FRONT PAGE—Pressroom profanity occasioned by a jailbreak (TIME, June 4, Aug. 27).
MUSICAL
Jokes and jungfrauen—Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White’s Scandals, Earl Carroll’s Vanities, Good Boy, The New Moon.
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