AustLit

Citing a review in the Register, the Sydney Morning Herald records that this new play by Mr Alex Symon of South Australia demonstrated 'unusual insight and deft handling of character.' The paper goes on to note : 'The scenes are laid out in the English country home of the wealthy [and haughty] Mrs Smith, into whose life there comes unexpectedly the consequence of grim tragedy in South America - a past she is endeavouring to forget, for her husband Eugene Dexter long since dead, had built up the family fortunes through his rubber ventures, [but] had become notorious by his brutal cruelties to his native workmen. Marty is the heroine who in her devotion rescues Gerald, Mrs Smith's son, from despair in a climax which is written of as possessing strong psychological interest' (Sydney Morning Herald 11 December 1926, p9).