Across the Sands of Time

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

A naive and harmless Play. Daphne, being asked in marriage by a young man, is inclined to play with his affections. So her father gives her to read the Diary of her dead mother, Suzette, and the said diary, in action, forms the bulk of the Play. John married Suzette, an ex-model but a good girl, in Paris and brought her home. His shrewish sister persecutes her. A bad baronet, who had known her in Paris, tries to get her to elope with him by a trick, and John, overhearing their conversation and previously rendered jealous by the baronet's sister who had wanted to marry him herself, shoots the baronet. the latter, repentant, is dying and his death will result in John's conviction as a murderer. A doctor, John's friend, persuades the baronet to take an overdose to prevent this. He does so; Joh is acquitted; the shrewish sister and bad baronet's designing sister are routed and John and Suzette are happy. Daphne, having read all this, accepts the young man. The conduct of the doctor in advising the baronet to commit suicide to save John is extremely unprofessional. The ethics of it, since the baronet was dying anyhow, may be [a] matter of dispute. But I do not think this point of consistency concerns the Lord Chamberlain's Office. Recommended for Licence. G. S. Street