THE STORY: Jason Otis is a drama critic, whose convictions on life and art are set. He marries Lisa, a charming woman. But Jason’s life is ruffled by the entrance of a temperamental young playwright, Mike Ambler. Mike’s talents and joy of living are quite the opposite of Jason’s. Furthermore, Mike is attracted to Lisa. Jason is angry, and this grows as he realizes that Lisa is also attracted to Mike. Then begins Jason’s education. He, too, finds something in Mike’s vitality that is attractive. The grave critic is gradually transformed into an understanding human being, and what promised to be an affair between Lisa and Mike is broken off when Lisa realizes that Jason is more of a man than she had thought him. Jason’s attempts to enjoy life and other people under Mike’s guidance forms the comedy of the play. The climax is reached when Jason, fearing the loss of his wife, has to review Mike’s new play. His first impulse is to praise it; his second to damn it. He then reveals the completeness of his spiritual education, and he realizes all the good that is in the young genius.
