Show PLA PLAYS YS DEADEN SPRING i Abhors Vapid in Current Importation 1 11 From London I By NOEL T ThORNTON ORNTON t NEW YORK May lay 12 Spring A-Spring would be a a pleasanter season seasoR it it didn't ddn t bring blIng so many of those plays that deaden the night with witless Among such Is Lionel Hales Hale's These Two which was brought over from irom London for no very cry apparent reason It Isn't a bad play but it is decIdedly inconsequential Handsome Simon who lives with debonair Tom marrIes gushing Celia because she's going to tOI have a not baby his Simon lo es Celia Celia loves herself They decide to give each other ever every freedom but Simon eats his heart o out t o 0 nights while Celia heads for the gay spots And after aUer a while Celia eats cats her heart out 0 nights while Simon goes dallying They could have been ha happy py had Celia rank frank enough on some subjects been ble to o confess her growing love for former forer mer er husband in But she couldn't too too late Bramwell Fletcher who has ha been in the movies does very well by Si moo mono and Helen Chandler who also has been In the movIes does well enough by Celia Cella The veteran A. A E. E Matthews brings Tom to life quite engagingly engagingly en en- while Kate md and Ed ward Emery present pat characterizations of a somewhat naughty lady and andin in an elderly misogynist Every Everyone one ot of them indeed Is worth better than this p piece G George rge Kelly wh s play lay Craigs Wife won he hc Pulitzer prize in 1925 26 Is back on Broadway quietly sketchIng out a new play His last work seen here was Philip Goes Forth of several se seasons back and since then he has been laboring in Hollywood studios Revivals are begInning to pop up like a bed or of mushrooms on the Rialto Leading the field are the revIvals of everal Gilbert and Sullivan musicals Bitter Sweet with Evelyn Herbert singing the Evelyn Laye role came back this week and next week will willI williee I iee e the return of The Desert Song Add Pulitzer prize notes Sidney Kingsley whose drama Men ip in White won the award this season Is on his way home from Moscow The prize play scoring the longest run on Broadway was The Green Pastures with Street Scene netted performances perform perform- ances No other Pulitzer winner has cro crossed sed the times mark |