This served as a vehicle of Kate Hepburn/John Barrymore (30s film), then Maureen O’Hara/ Adolphe Menjou (40s film), then Patricia Ward/James Mason (here).
It was one of Mason’s first jobs in the US (another show for this program, Morning Glory, was his first) and he’s got a terrific voice for radio. He’s pretty good in the role of a formerly insane person who comes back to interrupt his daughter’s impending marriage.
You do kind of wonder what the point of the story is – the daughter is worried about being insane so dumps her husband and decides to live with her dad, which is a bit of yuck (this seems to support eugenics).
The play was written in response to a law which – shock, horror – enabled people to divorce their partners by reason of insanity; it’s a bit musty now but is worth listening to because of Mason.
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