'Who is it who steals the jewels and leaves behind a little card that bears a drawing of a black spider? Fortunately, we are not long left to ask that too familiar question; the play does not chiefly depend on a mysterious identity. Mr. Cosway, a private detective summoned to Monte Carlo, soon begins to have his suspicions, which we are deliberately given every reason to share, and it is no great shock when feminine ankles appear on the rope ladder or when the raising of a mask reveals Madame Para's face. So the thief is our heroine, driven of course to thieving not by greed or wickedness, but in circumstances which, in the theatre at least, provide her with a hurried excuse.'
Source:
Times [London], 27 December 1927, p.5.
Produced at the Lyric Theatre, London, over the 1927 Christmas period.
Writer: Carlton Dawe.
Cast: O.B. Clarence (Lord Carfour), Evelyn Hope (Lady Carfour), Joyce Corfield (Irene Carfour), T.A. Shannon (Nolan Beauvais), Archibald Batty (Archie Lowndes), Frances Doble (Angela, Madame Para), Henry Wenman (Monsieur Boisfort), Arthur Aubrey (Reginald Cosway), Adela Ferguson (Oates), (Michael Sherbrooke (Capitaine Robert), and Madge Snell (Louise).
Source:
Times [London], 27 December 1927, p.5.
