The Best Plays

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

Drama

THE MIRACLE--Religion as Barnum might have magnificently exploited it.

RAIN--Jeanne Eagels has returned from a European vacation to continue her sermon against the relentless missionary of Pago Pago.

WHITE CARGO--A severe study of a white man's loneliness and moral disintegration in an African trading post.

THE SWAN--Eva Le Gallienne and the notable cast that made Molnar's comedy of Continental royalty a surviving monument in the season past.

Comedy

THE SHOW-OFF--An amusing contribution to the dramatic literature of the middle classes which concerns itself with the appealing art of blowing one's own trumpet.

EXPRESSING WILLIE--Zoe Akins' ingeniously amusing discussion of artistic temperament in the self-made man.

FATA MORGANA--Hungarian comedy by Vajda in which Emily Stevens and the Theatre Guild combine to satirize the efforts of a rural youth to find one night of cosmopolitan romance.

SWEENEY TODD -- A dust-covered English melodrama revived to let us laugh at what our ancestors took seriously.

Musical Comedy

Patrons are agreeing that the following musical diversions merit particular attention: I'll Say She Is, George White's Scandals, The Grand Street Follies, The Ziegfeld Follies, The Dream Girl, Chariot's Revue, Stepping Stones, Kid Boots.