Fifty-Fifty (play)

Subsequent productions had been less outstandingly successful, and the decision of the producer, Tom Walls, not to appear in the previous play, Dirty Work had disappointed audiences who had relished his stage chemistry with his co-star Ralph Lynn.

[5] One member of the Strand cast was recruited for the Aldwych production, Clive Morton, who reprised his character, the Viscount de Langeais, though renamed La Coste.

Buoyed up by the thought that, according to Azaïs, the roles are due to be reversed for the next thirty-five years, he spends what little money he has on a new suit, shaves off his scrubby moustache, transforming his appearance from pitiable to debonair.

He impresses the impetuous entrepreneur Sir Charles Croft, owner of the casino and hotel in St Nectare, who engages him at sight to run it.

One of the residents is a young aristocrat in love with Peggy, Croft's daughter, and tormented by amorous visions caused by the gurgle of her bathwater in the adjoining suite.

[6] The Illustrated London News observed, "The Aldwych authors have taught us to expect a laugh in every line, but Mr. H. F. Maltby, probably ill at ease in adapting this play from the French, was not his usual witty self.