Romance (Sheldon play)

It featured Doris Keane as Mme Margherita Cavallini, William Courtenay as Thomas Armstrong and A. E. Anson as Cornelius van Tuyl.

It featured Doris Keane as Mme Cavallini, Owen Nares as Armstrong and A. E. Anson, who produced the play, as van Tuyl.

[6] In his library in Washington Square, New York, Bishop Armstrong learns with disquiet that his grandson Harry is engaged to be married to Lucille Anderson, an actress.

Tom, the rector of St Giles (the bishop in younger days) is a friend of van Tuyl, who supports his church work.

Finally he hears the chimes of midnight and the church procession which he has organized; his manner changes and he leaves to join them.

Harry, misunderstanding that the bishop's purpose was to sympathize with youthful impetuousness rather than encourage it, says he has been an ass to hesitate, and will marry Lucille.

Harry's sister Suzette comes in; she sees in the paper an obituary of Mme Cavallini, and unaware of the connection with her grandfather, she reads it out; the opera singer never married.

The critic Walter Prichard Eaton wrote about the original production:[7] This drama... achieves... a consistent and unfailing atmosphere, or perhaps it would be better to say mood.

Certainly the main story has coherence, charm, force and a real touch of romantic glamour, and it provides a very fine acting part for Miss Doris Keane....Cavallini is wayward, capricious, alternate smiles and moodiness....

So Miss Keane plays her, with a bewitching accent, with infectious fun, with delicious capriciousness, with true tenderness too....