The play had a successful run in party due to the popularity of its star Maggie Moore.
[1][2] It was adapted from a 1906 book The Surprising Adventures of Mrs Bridget McSweeney by Thomas Spencer.
An unconvincing love, story is the frayed thread that holds the play together.
It manages to run through the four acts, but only by stretching ’for all it is worth, and tying itself into one or two knots towards the end.
When she is, the play really waits for her return, the other people being present only to be pelted with her stock of homely wit and wisdom.