Brave Women Who Wait

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a rather favourable specimen of melodrama, for although it is as silly and illiterate as most it is far from unpleasant violence. The story is of the simplest. Tom, having enlisted, marries Alice, and goes to the War. Charles, the foreman of the works, tries to seduce Alice; she repels him, but assisted by the villainess he gets her into a compromising situation and Tom, returning on leave, believes the worst in accordance with the tradition of heroes always believing the villain before their nearest and dearest. Then Charles tries to get Alice turned out of a munitions factory on a false charge of theft, but is himself dismissed. Tom, coming back again wounded, insists on still believing in his wife's infidelity until the villain, for purposes of his own, confesses his lie. The usual comic pair of lovers, a good clergyman, a patriotic mother and so forth complete the play. It is quite harmless and the patriotic sentiment is sound. The villainess, who is false to her soldier husband, is very properly castigated. Recommended for license. G. S. Street