Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 28, 1928

SERIOUS

COQUETTE—Helen Hayes plays and pays in Dixie (TIME, Nov. 21).

MARCO MILLIONS—Eugene O’Neill smiles and calls babbitts by bad names (TIME, Jan. 16).

STRANGE INTERLUDE—An ideal cast elucidates O’Neill’s study of a forlorn lady’s love-life (TIME, Feb. 13).

MELODRAMA

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN—Mary had a little jam, but she was white as snow (TIME, Oct. 3).

THE SILENT HOUSE—A Chinaman takes his friends for a slay-ride in London (TIME, Feb. 20).

DIAMOND LIL—Mae West, with rings on her fingers and under her eyes (TIME, April 23).

FUNNY

BURLESQUE—Heartbreaks for Barbara Stanwyck and headaches for Hal Skelly in a comedy of stage folk (TIME, Sept. 12).

THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY—Stage folk, by the Gleasons, running a small town hotel (TIME, Oct. 10).

THE ROYAL FAMILY—More stage folk, caught in the exciting moments of their troubled domesticity (TIME, Jan. 9).

VOLPONE—Ben Jonson’s farce, furnished in the elaborate manner of Theatre Guild Renaissance (TIME, April 23).

THE HAPPY HUSBAND—A week end party in one of those bad manors—Miss Billie Burke almost gets herself seduced (TIME, May 14).

Other funny plays: PARIS BOUND, THE BACHELOR FATHER, OUR BETTERS. MUSICAL

For fun-loving rovers: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Rain or Shine, Show Boat, The Three Musketeers, Present Arms, Here’s Howe, Blackbirds.