The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Feb. 15, 1943

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The Patriots. The historic clash between Jefferson and Hamilton set down in vivid rhetoric (TIME, Feb. 8).

Something For the Boys. Ethel Merman at her peak in musicomedy at its peppiest (TIME, Jan. 18).

The Three Sisters. All-star revival of Chekhov's classic of frustrated, self-pitying lives (TIME, Dec. 21).

The Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder's brightly cockeyed account of the story of mankind, in which dinosaurs collide with bingo (TIME, Nov. 30).

The Eve of St. Mark. Maxwell Anderson's touching and timely story of the life &. death of a soldier (TIME, Oct. 19).

Angel Street. Suave torture in a gaslit Victorian parlor (TIME, Dec. 15, 1941).

Sons o' Fun. Hellzapoppin with the deuces wild (TIME, Dec. 15, 1941).

Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of a first wife's ghost cooking a second wife's goose (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941).

Arsenic and Old Lace; or Murder Made Sidesplitting (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941).

Life With Father. Amusing, perhaps deathless saga of the brownstone-front era, celebrating Clarence Day's father and everybody's family (TIME, Nov. 20, 1939).