A comedy written in blank verse, with the following
"To the dramatists of the drawing-room This trifle is dedicated with a bow."
The plot is set in a boarding house for recently divorced persons. Complications ensue when two men invade the household in an attempt to reunite with their estranged wives.
Ashley Dukes (29 May 1885 – 4 May 1959) was an English playwright, critic, and theatre manager. In 1933, he founded the Mercury Theatre of London and wrote plays that appeared in the London West End and on Broadway. The Ashley Dukes Company was an important interwar promoter of serious drama, and a training ground for actors.[1] He was the husband of Marie Rambert as well as the older brother of British MI6 spy Paul Dukes and respected pathologist Cuthbert Dukes.