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Best Plays in Manhattan

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY—Turgenev’s delicate study of suburban lovelife.

FRITZ LEIBER—Sensible Shakespeare by Mr. Leiber and his Chicago repertory company.

IT’S A WISE CHILD—Family farce now being given in numerous places and tongues.

JOURNEY’S END—Vignette of battle.

JUNE MOON—Lardner-Kaufman dialog out of the mouths of songwriters.

STREET SCENE—Proletariat passion and mirth.

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE—Blithe and racy fairy tale.

SUBWAY EXPRESS—Murder in motion.

TOPAZE—Ludicrous Gallicisms with Frank Morgan.

THE APPLE CART—Bernard Shaw’s latest treat for good listeners.

THE FIRST MRS. FRASER—St. John Ervine’s comedy with polite sex psychology.

THE GREEN PASTURES—Negro religious experience translated into a great play.

THE LAST MILE—Literal and harrowing tragedy of the electric chair.

Musical—EARL CARROLL’S SKETCH BOOK, SONS O’ GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON.

Best Pictures

ANNA CHRISTIE—O’Neill might have written it to order for Greta Garbo.

MAMMY (Al Jolson)—His inevitable mother picture, with some new songs by Irving Berlin.

SARAH & SON (Ruth Chatterton)— Mother-love with a German accent, finely acted.

THE MAN FROM BLANKLEY’S—John Barrymore’s idea of comic inebriation.