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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 25, 21 February 1920, Page 13

"Summertime," an English play on the American "happy" model, written by Mr. Louis N. Parker, and produced at the Royalty Theatre, London, has not been greeted with great enthusiasm. One critic describes it as "an epitome of all the inanities." A leading character (played by Miss Fay Compton) is an Australian girl just arrived in England, whose principal stage duty is to "take a step to the front, make an effective sweep with her arm, and launch forth in rhapsody on English thrushes singing in the brake, trala, on English brooks that bubble in the vales, on robins and nightingales and hedges, and all the other beauties of this land she has not yet seen. After a time one begins to watch for the cue for a rhapsody, as in pantomime one watches for a cue for a song or a step-dance." The play introduces a household consisting of three jilted bachelors and another who is involved in three breach of promise cases. By some strange chance the girls who are bringing the actions are given employment in the house as gardener, chauffeur, and electrician.