Her Favourite Son

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

The hero of this extremely amateurish domestic drama, who is also its villain, is the elder son of a weak amiable widow, whose wish is that he should marry her rich ward. He is, however, under the influence of a German-paid English spy, the daughter of a neighbouring colonel whose secret plans - this time connected with Salonica - they proceed as usual to steal. Another complication is the return home of the rogue’s younger brother, a worthy youth, who proceeds to score all round, alike with the heiress and the colonel, who, however, is induced by the plotters to credit him for a while with the theft of the plans. Poetic justice at length ends this crude nonsense with the villainess’s suicide by the aid of her dagger-hairpin after she has been discovered to be the faithless wife on Italian, bent upon her wicked English lover’s punishment. Eminently foolish but quite innocuous, and recommended for license. Ernest A. Bendall.