Great War Theatre

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

A melodrama with a familiar plot and the usual sentiments. Bill is a drunken blackguard. His daughter Olive has been betrayed by the manager of her factory, Garth, who wants to marry her; she refuses and her father turns her out. Her true lover, Allan, promptly marries her, but hearing about Garth turns her out, he too, on the wedding day. She returns to her dying mother, crippled brother, and drunken father and to save her mother's life, who is in need of comforts, consents to go back to Garth. After a time Allan, repentant, asks her to return to him, whereupon Garth, after gagging her and so forth, is about to kill her when she shoots him in self-defence. That it was in self-defence can only be proved by Garth's butler, and his evidence is procured by a clever ruse on the part of Allan, who hus gets his wife back again. The bandying about of a woman is not a pleasant idea, but the sort of thing has often been done, and it is to be said in favour of the play that it does not mix up right and wrong and that villainy is properly punished. Also there is nothing offensive in the dialogue. Recommended for licence. G. S. Street.

Licensed On: 16 Aug 1916

License Number: 397

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British Library Reference: LCP1916/19

British Library Classmark: Add MS 66140 A

Performances

Date Theatre Type
28 Aug 1916 Hippodrome, Richmond-upon-thames Unknown Licensed Performance