Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 14, 1928

SERIOUS

COQUETTE—Tears and troubles for Helen Hayes, playing the part of a pretty little girl in a down-South town (TIME, Nov. 21).

MARCO MILLIONS—An elaborately fantastic satire on the mercenary career of Marco Polo (TIME, Jan. 16).

STRANGE INTERLUDE—The suggestion that a censor visit this nine-act drama was, according to report, not carried out because the official was unable to purchase seats less than a month in advance. The play is by Eugene O’Neill and it illuminates a lady’s dissatisfaction with life (TIME, Feb. 13).

MELODRAMA

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN—Ann Harding answers embarrassing queries in a courtroom (TIME, Oct. 3).

DRACULA—A human fiend in wolf’s clothing makes whoopee with a bumper of blood (TIME, Oct. 17).

THE SILENT HOUSE—Slant eyes at the back of a gunbarrel (TIME, Feb. 20).

DIAMOND LIL—Mae West in a chryselephantine interpretation of an easy lady from the old East side (TIME, April 23). FUNNY

BURLESQUE—A princess of the two-a-day practices a Keeley cure on her comedian husband (TIME, Sept. 12).

THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY—A pair of genial vaudevillians trying to run a village hotel (TIME, Oct. 10).

OUR BETTERS—Somerset Maugham’s shining sarcasm brilliantly reflected by Ina Claire and Constance Collier (TIME, March 5).

Other funny plays: THE ROYAL FAMILY, PARIS BOUND, VOLPONE.

MUSICAL

All for fun and fun for all: GOOD NEWS, FUNNY FACE, RAIN OR SHINE, MANHATTAN MARY, KEEP SHUFFLIN’, PRESENT ARMS, SHOW BOAT, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, THE THREE MUSKETEERS.