Mr. Manhattan

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a musical comedy with much more plot than is usual in such pieces now-adays, and with a welcome lack of the Revue or Variety-show element. Mr. Manhattan is a wealthy young American with a weakness for promiscuous lovemaking and with a fiancee., Evelyn, whose father, Sir Lewis, has put him on probation. Through no fault of his own, Manhattan is placed in a series of compromising situations in the company of various charing ladies, whose society is forced upon him by his gay friend, Bobby, and his unscrupulous man-servant, Odkin. His Park St. Chambers are invaded by the former for the entertainment of a number of lively actresses during his absence, which is also taken advantage of by his servant to get his rooms to a jealous Italian tenor, who pays the rascal the rent in advance. Through a set of plausible misunderstandings the wretched hero finds himself suspected by his fiancee of wholesale flirtations with Bobby's fair guests, and of the Italian of being his wife's guilty accomplice in the passing of some bad notes at Trouville. where it seems he was being impersonated by his impudent servant. To that French watering-place the whole party adjourns in the Second Act to carry on a most complicated game of cross-purposes, which culminates in an expedition made to a fete in a neighbouring village by various inconveniently assorted couples in a train which unfortunately breaks down in the middle of the night. At the railways station where the train is held up and where the passengers are perpetually putting their heads out of the windows, numerous doubts and suspicions are raised only to be cleared away for the happy ending in which the hero is reconciled to "the only girl he ever loved" after the manner of Wyndham in "Brighton". Bright, harmless and amusing and Recommended for License.