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'In the picture there are many additions, both to the book and the play. First the Waybacks are seen on their selection, and then on a visit to Sydney, in which Dads and Mums take a trip to Bondi, and see girls high-diving and sun-bathing. As the comedy develops the producer contrives to intensify interest by keeping before the spectator different threads of the story at the one time. For instance, the audience sees Mums and Tilly at the fortune-teller's, and then Dads and Charlie Lyons with the girls in the surf. Parallel with these two changing scenes are shown the quarrels and lights in the yard of the house occupied by the Waybacks in Sydney, and the development of the love affairs of the hero and heroine away in the country.'

Source:

'The Waybacks', The Advertiser, 3 June 1918, p.9

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Notes

There is some confusion in the sources as to the authorship of the play on which this film is based. Multiple sources note that the film is based on a play written by Philip Lytton, but contemporary advertisements (and AusStage) for the performances of this play indicate only that it was performed by Lytton's company and produced by Lytton. It seems likely, therefore, that the play in question was the Francis Shepherd and Mabs Lynne script, a copy of which is held in the Hangar Collection.