Best Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 8, 1930

• Share

GOING

DANCING PARTNER—David Belasco's comedy of Eros. There is a seduction scene in an airplane high above San Sebastian (TIME, Aug. 18).

LOST SHEEP—The complications which follow a minister's renting a house of ill repute (TIME, May 19).

LYSISTRATA—Purporting to demonstrate how women can end war; from the Greek of Aristophanes (TIME, May 19).

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE — Naughty (TIME, Sept. 30).

THE GREEN PASTURES—Before and after Moses was a little child. The best show in town (TIME, March 10).

THE LAST MILE—How it feels to anticipate electrocution (TIME, Feb. 24).

THE FIRST MRS. FRASER—Very smart; very entertaining (TIME, Jan. 13).

Musical—GARRICK GAIETIES (TIME, June 16); EARL CARROLL VANITIES (TIME, July 14); FLYING HIGH (TIME, March 17).

Best Pictures

FOR THE DEFENSE—Effective melodrama based on the career of the late Criminal Lawyer William J. Fallen (TIME, Aug. 4).

MOBY DICK—John Barrymore appropriately tempestuous as Peg-Leg Ahab (TiME, Aug. 25).

OLD ENGLISH—George Arliss's heart of oak succumbs to brandy in a Galsworthy story (TIME, Sept. 1).

ROMANCE—Greto Garbo in a love story of the mauve decade (TIME, Sept. 1).