A play by A. R. Whatmore.
[Starring] David Markham and Pauline Jameson
The action of the play takes place in Marple, Herefordshire, and Harley, Leicestershire, between the years 1889 and 1918.
(Jeremy Burnham appears by permission of Tennent Productions, Ltd; John Humphrey by permission of Shepperton Productions Ltd.)

In 1889, when this play begins, Charles Cartwright seems to have the world at his feet. At twenty-four, newly wed and exuberantly ambitious, he is already a headmaster, and that is only the beginning. There is really nothing to prevent him from winding up in the Cabinet or, at the least, with a University Professorship; nothing, except his own character.

Charles has an incorrigible disposition to play truant from his career. It is not that he lacks the willingness to contribute the 'ninety-nine per cent perspiration' of Edison's recipe for the successful genius. His enthusiasms are intense, but they are quickly spent, and as the years go by we see him dissipating his ability and energy in the pursuit of passing pleasures and the vain satisfaction of being a big fish in a series of small ponds.- (Kenneth A. Hurren)