A Viennese music master and his daughter, marooned in a small college town of the Middle West, watch their talents wither. Into their introspections walks the rich son of the college benefactor, seeking the daughter, who is seeking the out, for her own talent, for her father. The rich son has a wife, who hasn’t her husband’s love. The music master’s daughter falls physically in love with the rich man’s son.
Out of this Mr. Howard has built a latter-day Ibsenian drama, in which the universal struggle of the ego for its own integrity takes on the hue of its Middle West surrounding, and is portrayed in terms of modern ambitions and manners.
—from the front flap of the dust jacket
Play copyright 1931 Sidney Howard. Produced under the management of Katharine Cornell in Baltimore at the Maryland Theatre on February 13, 1933. It opened in New York at the Belasco Theatre on February 20, 1933, under the direction of Guthrie McClintic. The play ran there for 98 performances until May of that year.
