Overview

One of the most successful light comedies of recent New York seasons, having played with Grant Mitchell as the lovable and amusing hero. Henry Adams begins his career as a rather timid young husband who has incurred the disfavor of his family by marrying a girl who is not "one of them." The play romps through three acts of exceedingly clever and rollicking fun until the hero's wife gives him to understand that she will leave him unless he stands up for himself against the interference of his family. The final curtain falls on the great spectacle of Henry pointing to an engraving of The Declaration of Independence, and proclaiming: "When in the course of human events..."