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Show BEST SHOWS ALONG BROADWAY 1 1 ONLY FOUR BrRSlGNSOF LONG LIFE " 1- I rm1- Mln ',hrSr RroaM,a 1,,ts. cft to tight, Aloxandra Carlisle In "Fools' Tor BeijreS fon,It'sl ,n A Tooth" and Mary BoUnd in 'Ihe HV JOHN ODOXNFIilv. NBW1 YORK. Out of a season'' op. ning month, in which plays are buddlnp at the -ate of one br two a nlRht. has come very little :n the wav of renl stuff The big events of the jreaj are still tucked up the manager-IhI manager-IhI sleeves and of the lare group ol plays produced to date nlv four have shown signs of sturdlness sufficient to stand the gaff pi a Broadway run. Don Marquis' merry comedy, "The ild Soak." has now well established Itself in this inti-Prohibition area Of the later plays, the best are the J.dm Golden production of "A Ser-pent's Ser-pent's Tooth " with Marie Tempest; "Fools Errant" by Louis BJvan Ship-man, Ship-man, the editor of "Lifo" and the delightful 'Torch Bearers" wh..: sllppefi unpstentatlpuily into towii with two of the most gleeful and up roaring acts that we have seen ln many a night. There is a reverse to the theatrical coin. The first Cohan production of the season "So This Is London " is nothing more than niush for morons. It was very bad But the t.on... price, swafded only to particularly ooisonmis piays. is unhesitatingly i tossed in the direction of ' I Will If Vou win a farce by Crane Wilbur. : ft is simply awful. I Marie Tempest has brought her great ability a, an aclre.s to a play . .hu h is blessed with an original idea, j "The Serpent's Tooth" is the story of ; an ungrateful child a thoroughly ; worthless, dissipated, drunken former who is about t" many a beautiful PTirl for her money For years the i mother, played )y Marie T niptest, has supported this old. st son but when he ; is about to marr tne girl for her inorioy the niothcj- turns on him and i discloses his real character to the ; Kin. Th? play wen written, even if in I rather an old-fashioned style. And jihe aefjng Is superb. Miss Tempest as the mother, and Leslie Howard as j the son were the best of the new I season. The knot Into Which the haractersj have tied themselves Is Bolved In this play by sending the son to the NY. st where, we are informed, he will r.t-l .form under the Influences of tli'M wide, open places where a man cai.'1 be a man's man and a woman's hero. Tls idea of the beneficial oVferisi of the West on the human soul Is! also used in "Fools' Errant." ln the, Shlpman play, th rejuvenated souh is tl.at of the firing woman Grelaj Bills, splendidly played hy Alexandra! Cat lisle. "Out of New Yoik into thej i. pen West " cry the soul seefxlng dramatic roTormatloh, It has always been our persons! , conviction', Hut if a young man faced the problem in a ' determined and serious attitude .r-i .hs.-: p uo easlly In. the wide, open places of the 1 West as ln the wide-open places of i Times Square. 9 , a "Fools' Errant" although bv the editor edi-tor of 'Life' Is not particularly wlttv or funny. Instead of gleaming with w It it moes under a philosophical mist a kind of benevolent sociology (hangs like a fog in tho dramatic at- Mosphere. It distorts and blurs the outline of everything else and has no distinct outline of its own. 1 . r, |