Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 8, 1932

Through the Years, Thirteen years ago Miss Jane Cowl wrote herself a play about an old gentleman whose beauteous bride had been murdered by a thwarted suitor on her wedding night. The old gentleman, growing testier with the years, finds that his niece is in love with the long-dead murderer's son. He almost breaks up this romance, but the War and his advanced age finally thaw his hatred. Thereupon, by a sort of reverse Peter Ibbetson arrangement, his deceased sweetheart comes down a moonbeam, to" take him away with her.

Miss Cowl...

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