SERIOUS
PORGY—Negro players still militant in a relentless tragedy of the Charleston riverfront (TIME, Oct. 24).
COQUETTE—Helen Hayes, recently become Mrs. Charles MacArthur, still stressing the story of a luckless betrothal (TIME, Nov. 21).
STRANGE INTERLUDE—The Theatre Guild’s tireless mammoth cavorting seriously for September standees (TIME, Feb. 13).
FUNNY
THE ROYAL FAMILY—Continuous disturbances in a family of theatrical grandees (TIME, Jan. 9).
THE BACHELOR FATHER—A libertine reaps his wild oats as gaily as he sowed them (TIME, March 12).
VOLPONE—Ben Jonson’s satiric story of a Venetian miser sumptuously staged by the Theatre Guild (TIME, April 23).
BOTH OR NEITHER
THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN—A long, long trial, unravelling the story of a chorus girl who didn’t shoot the man who kept her (TIME, Oct. 3).
THE SILENT HOUSE—No longer, as described in advertisements, “a new mystery play” but still, what with yellow fiends and poison gas, a good one (TIME, Feb. 20).
THE FRONT PAGE—Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s scoop on the news-gathering racket (TIME, June 4, Aug. 27).
MUSICAL
Light lines, legs and lyrics: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White’s Scandals, Earl Carroll’s Vanities.
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