The Pride of the Regiment

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

A simple minded dramatic melodrama, dealing with the folly of a brave young soldier who gets his head turned by the adoration of a silly ‘society’ girl for his khaki. After getting the VC and becoming ‘the pride of the regiment’ he allows himself to be separated by this fashionable worshipper from his humble sweetheart, and to be lured into a marriage with a woman far above him in social station. Of course the marriage turns out badly. The snobbish wife insults the parents of her VC spouse, and the quarrel between them ends in her elopement with a former lover, and in a divorce which frees the soldier to marry the long-suffering lass to whom he was originally engaged. Interwoven with this crude romance is that of a valet who joins up, gets a commission for distinguished service on the field and has to be saluted by his young master who has remained a private. There is no verisimilitude in the sketches either of military or of a civil life; but there is no offense in the well-meant attempt to point one of the morals of the war. Recommended for license. Ernest A. Bendall.