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Examiner of Plays' Summary:

A long musical farce, with so little point that it is perhaps deserving of its classification as a ‘revue’. Its story is that of a struggle of an ignorance provincial mayor to inculcate the principles of domestic economy. He turns his theory into practice at home and in his shop with disastrous results by making drudges of his wife and daughter, until one of the latter marries a go-ahead tradesman next door, whose methods are contrasted with those of his cranky neighbour there is nothing in the action or motive of the silly story to cause offence. But there are some coarse vulgarities of speech and business which must be deleted. These are the needless allusion (act II, p.7) to a ‘nightie’: the direction (page 3 of the last or restaurant-scene) about ‘lifting women’s dresses’ to see what stockings they wear; and (p.4 of the same scene) the pinching of a woman’s stocking by a policeman to ‘test material’. There are also references to Mr Asquith and Mr Churchill (p.1 of the same scene) which must be omitted. With these restrictions the essentially common stuff is recommended for licence, Ernest A. Bendall.