Revivals

Last week revivals of three greatly successful plays opened in Manhattan:

Abraham Lincoln was written by John Drinkwater to interpret its hero for the English. Thousands of U. S. citizens saw it in Manhattan a decade ago, many went two and three times. Frank McGlynn still looks like Lincoln, makes him a compassionate and credible figure from his rustic days at law until the dark moment when John Wilkes Booth creeps toward the door of the red-plush Presidential box.

A Tailor-Made Man. Grant Mitchell returns as John Paul Bart, the socially-soaring pants-presser who. despite his outmoded slang (twelve years) is still very funny.

Naughty Marietta is that lovely effort of Victor Herbert which contains the waltz "I'm Falling in Love with Someone." Use Marvenga's voice is as lissom as her figure. The third of a series of Victor Herbert revivals (TIME, Oct. 7), it is splendidly recreated in every detail.