Kultur

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a spy play, but a very mild and educated and, so to speak, gentlemanlike specimen of its class. The daughter of a man of science has engaged herself while in Germany to a Prussian officer. It is before the war and he comes to stay with the family. He is really a spy and starts making drawings of forts and so forth at once. He drops a paper and the scientist's secretary, in love with the daughter, finds it and detects his game. The secretary pretends to be a traitor and gives the German the key of the safe which is supposed to contain the recipe for a new explosive. Then, while he is burgling the safe in the night everybody comes in; he is exposed and the daughter is disillusioned. The weakness of the play is in the German officer being made a boastful fool, as of course, he would not have been. But the conversation is rather good and, as I said, educated, and is a relief after the usual trash. Recommended for license. G. S. Street