Philip Nash, who advances rapidly from the position of a common laborer to that of general manager of one of the wealthiest and most important of our steel manufacturing interests; the marriage of this young man to his boyhood sweetheart; his wife’s contentment with her lot; and then the final disruption of their happy home, due to the changed conditions attendant upon his rapid advance in the commercial world. The depiction of Nash’s eventual downfall, after he has shown conclusively his preference for a singer of note, a young woman famous in the light opera world, whose charms and fascinations lead to his complete undoing, is very strong.