The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 22, 1923

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

Drama

CASANOVA—Lowell Sherman as the greatest of the philanderers, against a background of violently expensive costumes and decorations. Also prominent: Katharine Cornell; a Fokine ballet.

CHILDREN OF THE MOON—Minor players scaling major eminences in a vigorous exposition of inherited insanity and the futility of over-possessive mother love.

RAIN—A jade is called a jade together with other interestingly unprintable synonyms. Jeanne Eagels is the recipient of the epithets; her surroundings are the South Seas.

SEVENTH HEAVEN—Helen Menken creating for herself...

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