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FULTON , 46 , W. Distinguished Old Friday , December 18 , inclusive . ) of B'way . THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN – Gregory Restaurant THE THEATRE Kelly as a Merton of the Theatre . George HAMLET IN MODERN DRESS — The float S. Kaufman's kiddingest of comedies . LONG ing edition of Shakespeare's Freudian drama , ACRE , 49 , W. of B'way . once again spared from sudden and un AMERICAN BORN - Mr . George M. Cohan merited death . NATIONAL , 41 , W. of B'way . rescuing American superiority comedy from THE VORTEX - Rigorous dissection of Britain's Banal Street . HUDSON , 44 , E. of B'way . most indecorous and rancid . By and with MORALS — Reviewed in this issue . COMEDY , 41 , Noel Coward . HENRY MILLER's , 43 , E. of E. of B'way . B'way . A LADY'S VIRTUE — Reviewed in this issue . A MAN'S MAN — The unclassy lives of the met Bijou , 45 , W. of B'way . ropolitan Main Streeters , unclassily , but bit CHARLOT'S REVUE — England hasn't as much ingly told . With Dwight Frye . FORTY reason to be proud of this year's Charlot's NINTH STREET , 49 , W. of B'way . as of last . But there are Gertrude Lawrence , CRAIG'S WIFE - A successful attempt by George Beatrice Lillie , and Jack Buchanan . SEL Kelly to define utterly selfish femininity . WYN , 42 , W. of B'way . THE picturesque Old Trenchant and adult drama . MOROSCO , 45 , MERRY MERRY — Tuned merrily , danced Tally - Ho Restaurant , W. of B'way . merrily , sung merrily , and acted merrily by YOUNG WOODLEY — A first play by John Van chorus and principals . VANDERBILT , 48 , E. formerly in the Astor Druten delineating the devastation of calf of B'way . Stables , Twenty East love . Quickened to a white - hot glow by SUNNY - A happiness show , very , very tasty Glenn Hunter . BELMONT , 38 , E. of B'way . with talent . New AMSTERDAM , 42 , W. of Thirty - fourth Street , will HAMLET — Shakespeare à la classic . There is B'way . re - open its doors at none of this nonsense about Shakespeare in THE STUDENT PRINCE - Cohorts of singers , armies of principals , plus maudlin , soul . Eighteen West Fifty mufti : HAMPDEN's , B'way and 64 . THE GREEN HAT - Heavy clouds of Mr. tearing music ; equals hippodromic satisfying sixth Street on Decem Arlen's perfumed literature for your sensual operetta . Jolson's , 7 Ave. and 59 . THE VAGABOND KING — A splendid gesture ber Fifteenth . delectation . BROADHURST , 44 , W. of B'way . ACCUSED - Down a legal alley with Mons . of a musical show . Casino , B'way and 39 . The new Tally - Ho will Brieux . Mr. E. H. Sothern is there for THE CITY CHAP — You couldn't get it pleas relief . Belasco , 43 , E. of B'way . anter if Aristophanes had written the words , have the same manage IN A GARDEN - A playwriting symptomaniac Socrates the music , and Jupiter the humor . ment as the old . It will ruins a pleasant enough marriage , with REPUBLIC , 42 , W. of B'way . Laurette Taylor . A civilized drama . Ply PRINCESS FLAVIA— “ Prisoner of Zenda ” put offer the same delectable MOUTH , 45 , W. of B'way . to music . CENTURY , 62 and Central Pk . W. cuisine which has made STOLEN FRUIT — Imported spaghetti drama NO , NO NANETTE – Well , well , well . Now it a rendezvous for those embellished with the wondrous acting of Borneo is to have a permanent Nanette Ann Harding . ELTINGE , 42 , W. of B'way . Company . GLOBE , B'way and 46 . who appreciate and de EASY COME EASY GO - Owen Davis's nine MAYFLOWERS — Ivy Sawyer and Joseph Sant mand the best things hundred and ninety - ninth farce . Geo . M. ley are here to talk , dance , sing and amuse Cohan , B'way near 42 . the citizens . FORREST , 49 , W. of B'way . to eat . BEWARE OF WIDOWS - Owen Davis's thou- DEAREST ENEMY - An operetta of dullish sandth farce . But there will always be only book , but lovely old Colonial setting and Here one will find not only all one ( 1 ) Madge Kennedy . MAXINE Elliot's , sageraceous music . KNICKERBOCKER , B'way the unique charm of former 39 , E. of B'way . and 38 . the surroundings but also an THE JAZZ SINGER - Effective hokum with ARTISTS AND MODELS — The best revue added artistry of design , George Jessel , hybrid crossing of mammy Shuberts have ever produced . WINTER GAR singer with cantor . CORT , 48 , E. of B'way . DEN , B'way and 50 . creating an harmonious en ANDROCLES AND THE LION — The one by THE COCOANUTS — Les Marx Brüder in a semble , as necessary to dis Bernard Shaw , metabiological pentateuchist . new musical show . LYRIC , 42 , W. of criminating people as a well Klaw , 45 , W. of B'way . B’way . ARMS AND THE MAN — Mr . Shaw on the appointed table . OPENINGS OF NOTE Great Delusion . GARRICK , 35 , E. of B'way . TWELVE MILES OUT — Rollicking melodrama MOSCOW ART THEATRE MUSICAL Luncheon , Afternoon amidst our most prospering bootleggers . STUDIO - JOLSON'S FIFTY - NINTH STREET . Tea and Dinner a la Carte PLAYHOUSE , 48 , E. of B'way . Dec. 14 . THESE CHARMING PEOPLE — Mr . Arlen MERCHANTS OF GLORY - A play from the transmutes much nonsense Special Table d'Hote and small talk French with Augustin Duncan , Helen West into a glittering farce . With Cyril Maude ley , Jose Ruben , George Nash and others . Dinner $ 1.50 and Edna Best . Gaiety , B'way and 46 . Guild THEATRE . Dec. 14 . NAUGHTY CINDERELLA — Introducing , be- THE WISE - CRACKERS - A comedy by Gilbert sides the famed spaghetti , the next best Seldes . 66 THEATRE , 66 5th Ave. Dec. 15 . Franco - American product : Mlle . Irene Bor THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET - A play by doni . LYCEUM , 45 , W. of B'way . Karel Capek , with Emily Stevens . CHARLES OUTSIDE LOOKING IN — Legal and romantic HOPKINS THEATRE , 155 W. 49. Dec. 16 . bums tomfool slangily along the Great Open ( Dates of openings should be verified because of Road . Maxwell Anderson's wise dramatiza frequent late changes by managers . ) tion of Jim Tully's “ Beggars of Life " . THIRTY - NINTH STREET , 39 , E. of B'way . MOTION PICTURES IS ZAT SO ? —The toughened and the decadent THE BIG PARADE — Laurence Stallings The Tally - Ho provide pyrotechnical New Yorkese comedy .