by Marian Bower and Leon M. Lion
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
Produced by Fred O'Donovan with the BBC Repertory Company
When Leon M. Lion went into management of the New Theatre, London, in 1918, The Chinese Puzzle was the play with which he opened, and a great success it was. It has all the ingredients of diplomatic melodrama-the inscrutable Oriental; the rising young man at the Foreig'n Office ; the smart country house party, and, of course, the leakage of vital information.
Over it all broods the- smooth and philosophical Oriental, wise as Confucius himself, in the person of the celestial Marquis Chi-Lung .