Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928

SERIOUS

STRANGE INTERLUDE—Nine acts of exciting research on the subject of a semi-nymphomaniac’s neuroses (TIME, Feb. 13).

MACHINAL—Arthur Hopkins’ new star, Zita Johann, as a murderess in Sophie Treadwell’s play which should be pronounced Makinal (TIME, Sept. 17).

Civic Repertory Productions—Worthy plays worthily and cheaply presented by Eva Le Gallienne. See especially The Cherry Orchard (TIME, Oct. 29).

FUNNY

GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS—Five newspapermen who know about newspapers gently telling part of what they know (TIME, Sept. 10).

THE HIGH ROAD—Snubbed by lords and libeled by ladies, a London actress enters the castle and decides, wittily and with charm, not to take the heir (TIME, Sept. 24).

LITTLE ACCIDENT—The catastrophe is not the title but a brat born out of wedlock and legitimized in the last act (TIME, Oct. 22).

EXCITING

THE FRONT PAGE—In which newspapers are excitingly slandered and in which a jailbreak makes a good story and nearly spoils a romance (TIME, June 4; Aug. 27).

NIGHT HOSTESS—Battles along Broadway and cabaret calamities by Philip Dunning (TIME, Sept. 24).

JARNEGAN—Only for those who would cheer on hearing Hollywood described as a place “where there is a pushover on every corner” (TIME, Oct. 8).

MUSICAL

Good News, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White’s Scandals, Earl Carroll’s Vanities, Good Boy, Billie.