Three weeks and a bit

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

The only dubious part of this review is the prologue. In this a husband and wife, while undressing to go to bed, quarrel and decide to separate for three weeks and see at the end if they wish to live together again. They then get into bed and start quarrelling again as the curtain falls. The rest is the ordinary stuff. There is a scene at Monte Carlo with sham gambling, the hackneyed business of the funny man asking girls their names and punning on the answers, and detective business the husband and wife each employing the funny man and so forth. The wife decides to go back to the stage. There are irrelevant scenes - a female magistrate business and the stupid joke of giving lessons in love - rather vulgar but not suggestive and in the end the husband and wife find out they love one another still. The prologue with its bed in the centre of the stage is a silly business and gives a wrong note. There is not really any harm in it, but it would give needless offence. Perhaps it would be excessive to cut it out simply, but I suggest that the manager be sent for and told that it is undesirable. Anyhow the couple getting into bed and and being left in that position is too domestic and that part should be cut out in any case. There is no point in having a bed at all. Otherwise the piece is recommended for licence G. S. Street