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Walter Hampden, dean of actor managers since the death of Henry Miller, will continue at his own theatre in classic repertory, including Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac. He also promises a modern play or two.
Helen Hayes, who is making such a success in J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows will take the play on tour and late next season play the same author's Quality Street.
Eugene O'Neill's unproduced manuscripts are various. Those most likely to reach the stage this season are a dramatization of the book of Job, a play called Marco's Millions, and a third called Lazarus Laughed.
Michael Arlen will have his name on two plays, written in collabora- tion. Edith Ellis has dramatized his The Cavalier of the Streets and Winchell Smith has helped Mr. Arlen on a comedy called What Fun Frenchmen Have.
George M. Cohan will possibly act in a musical show written by himself and called The Melody Maid. He will also present a comedy of his authorship called The Home Towners.
Channing Pollock, author of the tear-jerking The Fool and The Enemy has a new play called Mr. Moneypenny.
Best Plays
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important.
SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN — Eugene O'Neill's confusing problem about selling your brains to the devil. CRAIG'S WIFE — About a woman who dusted her house so carefully that it ceased to be a home. LULU BELLE — Lenore Ulric painting a brilliantly tawdry picture of a Negro dance hall girl. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS — In which three lonely ladies, aged about 40, find diversion in three young men from college. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS — J. M. Barrie and Helen Hayes collaborating in a most satisfactory revival. AT MRS. BEAM'S — The terrible predicament of a boarding house which harbors a woman-eater. MUSICAL For song and electric sunshine these are recommended: Sunny, Ziegfeld's Revue, Iolanthe, Cocoanuts, Scandals, Merry World, Vagabond King.