The Lass of Dingley Moor

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

An extremely rude and commonplace domestic drama, having for its heroine the daughter of a steel-worker, and for its villain the wealthy foundry master, who induces her to jilt her honest artisan lover and become his mistress. In that capacity the girl is next seen living a life of gilded misery in the Midland Hotel at Manchester, where she bids farewell to her former sweetheart who has ordered to the front, while her so-called 'husband' shames her by refusing even to employ his works - as the Government desires - for the manufacture of munitions. Subsequent episodes are devoted to the villain's insulting treatment of the girl's humble relations, to his attempt to steal her old lover's shell invention, to his final quarrel with her, and to her illegitimate baby's death. The sentiment of the piece is sound if silly: the humorous 'relief' fails signally, although harmlessly, in its object. Recommended for license. Ernest A. Bendall