SIX BEST PLAYS OF THE YEAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

SIX BEST PLAYS OF THE YEAR

A NEW YORK CRITIC GIVES HIS OPINIONS. Six of the ten plays that I should seb oct as the best, of the season’s suesuccess in New York are still playing writes a New York critic at the end ol tho theatrical year. That is one of the tests of their worthiness. At least it is a tost of their right to stand as the most representative of the playgoers’ taste in plays. And not one of these six, nor one of the other four, for that matter, is a salacious play or a sex play in the rougher sense. Not one of them if a silly play, or a purposeless play. Which would serve to encourage the theatre bptimists as surely as it will discourage those xvho have boon so patiently waiting for the theatre to lead the way to Hades. These ten plays I have chosen as being most worthily representative of the season are:— Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude. ’ ’ George Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s “The Royal Family.” Philip Barry’s “Paris Bound.” Dubose and Dorothy Hayward’f ‘ ‘ Porgy. ’ ’ George Abbot and Ann Bridger *f (1 Coquette. ’ ’ George .Hanker Waters and Arthui Hopkins’ “Burlesque.” George Kelly’s “Behold the Bridegroom. ’ ’ John Galsworthy’s “Escape.” Bartlett Cormack’s “The Racket.” ►Scan O’Casey’s “The Plough and th® Stars.”