The Theatre: Best Plays: Apr. 19, 1926

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

SERIOUS

THE DYBBUK — A matchless production of a Jewish legend mystically combining love and religion.

YOUNG WOODLEY — Glenn Hunter displaying the acute agonies of a schoolboy who has fallen in love with his algebra master's lovely wife.

CRAIG'S WIFE — The portrait of a lady who so worshiped her home that everything in it was a museum piece except her husband.

LULU BELLE — An exciting blast of trash about a Negro singer who graduated to a luxurious Paris boudoir.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC — Walter Hampden making one of his periodical and singularly satisfactory revivals of the Rostand classic.

LESS SERIOUS

THE WISDOM TOOTH — A touching fantasy about a young man who never was much good until he recaptured his childhood in a dream.

THE LAST OP MRS. CHEYNEY — Ina Claire and a flawless troupe telling the tale of stolen pearls in lofty English society.

MUSICAL

For melody and maidens these are dependable: Cocoanuts, Pinafore, No, No, Nanette, Tip-Toes, Sunny, The Vagabond King, Artists and Models.