The Theatre: The Best Plays: Feb. 15, 1926

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

SERIOUS

YOUNG WOODLEY – Glenn Hunter giving a poignant picture of a very young man in love with a married woman.

HEDDA GABLER – Emily Stevens as the most virile of Ibsen’s heroines, with the usual gun play.

THE GREEN HAT – Michael Arlen’s fashionable philosophies made almost sincere by the playing of Katharine Cornell.

CRAIG’S WIFE – An American wife who loves her spotless home better than her thoroughly human husband.

THE DYBBUK – A Jewish legend of religion and a young girl’s love treated to the most amazingly fine production. Probably the best thing in town.

THE JEST – Reviewed in this issue.

LESS SERIOUS

IS ZAT SO? – Prizefighters and the social register caught in most hilarious complications.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY – Ina Claire as the exceedingly lady-like crook who got caught.

ARMS AND THE MAN – Bernard Shaw’s swift and diverting satire on war as it was once regarded.

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN – What happens to a play before it is produced, and the absurd antics of the curious folk involved.

CRADLE SNATCHERS – A rowdy adventure of young boys and middle-aged women off for a weekend.

MUSICAL

For evenings set to music these are recommended: The Student Prince, Sunny, Vanities, Cocoanuts, Tip-Toes, No, No, Nanette, Artists and Models, The Vagabond King.