Frederick Lonsdale

A very amusing and sophisticated story of Mrs. Wislack, who is scheming to ensnare Richard Halton. The Duke is considering the sale of his title to Helen Hayle. Thrown into daily contact, it does not take Richard and Helen long to discover that they love each other, leaving Mrs. Wislack and the Duke to their own devices.2 women, 2 men

Genre: Comedy Characters: 8 males, 4 females Scenery: 2 Interiors This delightful 1920s drawing room comedy was revived on Broadway and in London's West End with Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert. Jeremy Brett, Lynn Redgrave and George Rose also starred in the Broadway production. It is a brilliant and sophisticated play concerned with the sympathetic and natural foibles of a very human set of people. "Lonsdale's works fall somewhere between Wilde and Coward... an expert craftsman as well as a witty writer... Should prove not only instructive to theatre goers interested in this genre, but decidedly entertaining too." - New York Daily News

Includes the plays Aren't We All?, The Last of Mrs Cheney, On Approval, Canaries Sometimes Sing Edited and introduced by Clifford Williams. A new edition preserving these witty and sophisticated society comedies written in the 1920s, when Lonsdale was at the height of his popularity in the West End, Broadway and throughout the repertory circuit. The Last of Mrs Cheney, in which the maid in a gang of burglar-servants gives up her criminal career to marry into aristocracy, is the best known of Lonsdale's plays.