LIGHT ONE-ACT PLAYS
Comrades in Arms and Other Plays. By Percival Wilde. Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 231 pp. (5s net.) Percival Wilde's one-act plays are amusing, well-constructed, full of believable people, and lightened by the economy and wit of their dialogue. "Comrades in Arms," which has been published separately, is an entertaining Ruritanian fantasy, quite- successful within its artificial key. In "Over the Teacups" two wealthy women who have come down in the world during- the .slump but have enough character to make the best of it are able by joining forces to convince the few visitors they still receive that they live like ladies \ for on such occasions each in appropriate turn assumes the role of general maid to the other. In "An Affair of Dishonour," four gentlemen suddenly made aware, of their wives' infidelities wish to do • something about it. So in,true romantic fashion A wishes to shoot B; B pursues C; C, D; and D, A*. Confrontations and revelations make the play, which is admittedly light stuff, good entertainment. All these should act well. They are ' thoroughly suited to amateur performance.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22081, 1 May 1937, Page 17
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