Love's Young Dream

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

The nonsensical plot of this melodrama is very complicated. The villain learns that the heroine is entitled to a large fortune in chancery, of which of course she knows nothing and therefore persuades a hussy to make mischief between her and her lover, a naval lieutenant. At this point an admiral of the 'Mazillian' navy, really an Englishman and the husband of the famous Madam Tona, whom he does not know to be alive and who refuses to see him until he has found their daughter, abducted by the villain - this admiral is persuaded to make a bigamous marriage with the heroine, so that everybody shall be under the villain's thumb. However, the villain had previously defrauded the 'mazillian' Government, so the admiral has him kidnapped and there is a scene at sea and an explosion, after the villain has knocked down the hussy, now repentant, who turned out to the admiral's long lost daughter. Perhaps it is sufficient to add that everything is eventually put right for everybody except the villain. Some of the comic relief is vulgar horseplay but no harm is intended. And of course the bigamous marriage is 'in name only' and no harm is done. Recommended for Licence G. S. Street