Following a year’s run at St Martin’s Theatre, London, ‘Galsworthy’s finest effort to date’ and ‘the greatest London success of recent years’ toured to the Grand Opera House, Belfast and then Cork Opera House in May 1923.

Galsworthy’s three-act play, Loyalties (1922),

A review of its performance at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin published in the Freeman’s Journal (22 May 1923), however, was less than favourable. The reviewer notes that ‘“Loyalties,” no doubt, may have qualities which capture the admiration of an English audience, but its tame and bloodless dialogue, and trite situations, particularly when the Meldon Court robbery becomes a matter for investigation in a London law court, fail to excite the enthusiasm of an Irish audience.’

The reviewer goes on to describe the acting as ‘acceptable’, noting that: ‘The leading roles were sustained by Mr. Basil Gordon (de Levis), Mr. Heaton Grey (Chas. Winsor), Miss Phyllis Fabian (his wife), Mr. Marcus Barron (Genl. Canynge), Mr. Felix Seel (Capt. Dancy), and Miss Jane Millican (his wife).’

[source: The Freeman’s Journal, Tuesday 22 May 1923, p4]

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