The Theatre: In Manhattan

A quantity of new plays having been offered, mid-September found the following plays showing in Manhattan:

Abie's Irish Rose—The oldest.

The Adorable Liar—A romantic girl almost cries "Wolf!" once too often.

At Mrs. Beam's—Bluebeard in a boardinghouse.

The Blonde Sinner—Unflavored theatrical hash.

Cradle Snatchers—Raucous farce in which middle-aged matrons and college youths sojourn on Long Island.

The Donovan Affair—Jewels, murder, detectives, murder, mystery, murder.

The Ghost Train—Snorting mystery on funny lines.

Great God Brown—Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of genius, with masks.

Henry-Behave!—A mild farce about amnesia and an inhibited gentleman.

The Home Towners—A South Bend grumpy misunderstands New York honor and is funny.

Honest Liars—A farce, light to the point of being inconsequential.

House of Ussher—Well acted revival of a dull play on domestic intrigue.

If I Was Rich—Joe Laurie as a well-meaning young man who cannot afford a Long Island house party.

Laff That Off—A rickety vehicle for slang.

Little Spitfire—A working girl marries into Southampton.

Loose Ankles—Funniest wisecracks of the season.

Lulu Belle—Lenore Ulric in an explicit tale of a prostitute who flaunts over the color line.

My Country—Jewish and Italian lambs lie down with old U. S. lions.

One Man's Woman—Sex in Hawaii according to the boxoffice.

Potash and Perlmutter-Detectives—Described by the title.

Service for Two—Agitated husband in the middle bedroom.

Sex—Stupid, coarse.

The Shanghai Gesture—Oriental wickedness.

She Couldn't Say No—A woman can be humorous, can be lawyer.

What Every Woman Knows—Helen Hayes and Sir James Barrie define charm.

Foibles of the flesh, diversions of the eye and ear, are agreeably presented in: lolanthe, Americana, Scandals, Great Temptations, Sunny, The Vagabond King.