Show REVIEWS STAGE HITS Plays Better Than in Previous Years View A Critical Discord Attends Shaws Shaw's Apple Cart Girl Shows Flop By GILBERT SWAN NEW l YORK 29 NEIn E NE EIn In a week which brought no play pla worth tho lie trouble of writing Item homo lIum about and f aw V th the spring doldrums dol ol- ol drums settling ething rapidly over oer fl Broad Broach wa way It a as good a a. t time a aI a as any am I to lo check bad back over ovet out notebook note note- ho book l of oC tho lie M season a on So for or a spring roundup ui Shaw Shaw's latest aC George Bernard lecture Jecture entitled The Apple Cart has han 1 brought ht a chorus el of oC critical with the majority Inclined to find It o and extremely dull in iii spite of or Shaws Shaw's flashes lashes of oC wit George Georgo Nathan hn has gone gonO so 50 far Car as ns to place Shaw Shiaw in hl hi his grave rl To me tho the outstanding fault lt Iny In Inan Inan au an effort to satirize and 1 build u trav- trav cst esty around politicians It cant can't be done They continually satirize themselves c They're c re funnier than an any playwright ht could make them as witness almost any days day's demonstrations demonstrations demon lemon from front Washington to Loudon London London Lon Lou don and 1 back acI They say ay incidentally that in iii th the tho London version cIslon the American minister min ister iste was wat played IJ by u n gent g who wore ole worean oleIn In an Uncle Sam hat list and star star- spangled trousers The Thin cut was wa ma made e to look hook as ns much like hike that of out our own ow-il Charlie Dawes as POSsible pos POS- os- os sible e eThere There has been more moro walling about out this season than any which I 1 havo have lived lI through h Yet while there was no Journeys Journe s End and anti antino no Street Scenes there was i a n aGreen aGreen Green Pastures The Last Mile 11 Topaz Berkeley Square and Tho The Criminal Code The average average aver mer age c. as a l tatter matter of oC fact has been much hl higher her Tho rho musical show situation has hasben been ben particularly surprising There tel has hag been a legend that a little lUle girl girl- gusto and show how would keep keel the tue cash re registers clinking Three Thu-ec or four foot foul have hi ed I ed up t to this reputation But Dut April 1 will viiI find ud fewer wil sum summer lm- lm mer show how of oC entertainment in iii this town than u usual ual rIm Tho hits hilts are arc at the tho moment Georgo George Whites White's Flying High with wih Bert Lahr Fifty Million Fir Frenchmen Sons of or Guns Strike Up UI tho lie Band an and td to some seine extent Simple Simon had an e excellent earlier earler run The Ihie latter hatter later lacked tho lie usual zest but has lIas been ably propped b by Ed Wynn nn Meanwhile Fred Ired Ild Stone af after atter at- at ter his usual fans had ceased cased bu buying tickets flopped in Ripples And already the mis- mis cr cry o of tho to big hig street arc c caln calling him ol old fashioned Memorable le performances of or the season it seemed to me were those of or Geol George Jeorge 1 M. M Cohan in a superb characterization of a suave gamester game game- ster In Gambling ln Frank Morgan Mor Moe- gan gnu as the French school teacher In Tol Topa c e Tom Toni Powers lower as the tue king in The uThe Apple A Cart Cart Alfred A Lout Lunt Loutas t tas as tho the in Meteor Jacob Jacob Ja In- Ja- Ja cob Ben Ben-Ami in Lo 10 reviva re revival re- re viva vival vl al of oC The Sea Gull Cull Gul Louis Trac Tracy TL n as the tho convict in The Tim Last Mile lle Grace Craco Georges George's gracious antI and charming portrayal of oC the lie wIfe cx c In The Tho First Mrs Fraser Arthur Ar Ar- 1 thur Byron as ns tho the district attorney in Imi The Criminal Code William liam Glett's revival of or hi his famous role Sherlock Holmes practically call cally caly all al the cast in Bulgakov's American version vellon o of Gorky's Gorky The Tito Lower Jowel Depths the clowning of or Bert LaIn Lahr the voice and arid per personality person on- on of or Evelyn Layo in Bitter Sweet the to waltzing I I of oC J Jessie Jessl essl Matthews in Imi Wake Vake Up and amid Dream Dram and the dancing of oC Tina Ieler in Ti Tilly Losch In that tat same show Jack D' D Donahue's ahues ahue's adroit rich clowning and hoon hooting hoofing In li-i Sons clowning o 0 Guns Charles Butterworth Irene lene 1 Franklin and Helen Morgan Iol an in Sweet Adeline Adelne Topping the to list I should say a was wa Leslie how Lesle Howard's Howards neds ned's performance In Imi Berkeley Square Then rhen there was tas wa J Harry Jarr as ns the Iho Tin rin lii Pan fan Alley piano thumper in June Moon Richard d Harrison na as the as Loud Lord in Green Pastures s Mat Jan JanEI EI hills Ellis In Children C of r Jefferson soui de do demonstration of oC how well wel a C grond rond old oh trouper can an act in Aprin Strings and Lva I a Lo Io s 's portrayal of or Peter Petel Pan Ian I |