Somewhere In France

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

As silly in its story as the usual war melodrama but perhaps a little less illiterate in dialogue and character. The first act is in a coast town in England, in which the spy is regularly foiled 1) in attempting to kill the heroine, who is in the English 'secret service', (2) in attempting to steal the customary documents placed in the safe, and (3) in attempting to kidnap the heroine and place her in a lunatic asylum. Idiotically released, however, the spy proceeds to France, where the other characters are either soldiers or nurses, and there is an in-and-out business of him and the hero alternately circumventing the other. Ultimately he does contrive to carry off the heroine to the German lines where she is condemned to death as a spy. An American consul intervenes in gain, but she is naturally rescued in the nick of time by the hero, the spy ending his bad career. All this business is silly to the last degree but quite harmless. During the court martial scene, however, a 'stranger' who is obviously the Kaiser is introduced for a brief moment, quote pointlessly, and the rule against his being made up as such must be observed, Act II, p.22, otherwise the play is unusually free from unseemly violence and is Recommended for license, G. S. Street.