The Profiteer

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

The ‘money-grabber’ is the head of a large cocoa firm and his chief crime is that of ‘profiteering' by the unscrupulous methods disclosed by his orders on the telephone. One of his punishments is his inability to find his dearly-loved daughter, whom he drove from his house on account of his marriage with a lover of small means. Another is the riot of Mahi’s workpeople, roused to righteous, though lawless, indignation by their discovery of the ‘corners' that he is making in food. One of the ringleaders is a defiant factory girl whom he is prosecuting for her alleged theft of some cocoa; and this damsel, after some outspoken condemnation of his business methods, scores heavily by informing him that what she regarded as her perquisite was only being taken home by her for his starving daughter. The crude but well-meaning sketch of the poetic justice handed out to the money-grabber ends with the announcement of his daughter's death. A sound moral, enforced with needless but harmless violence. Recommended for license. Ernest A. Bendall.