Playwright Harriet French Ford collaborated with newspaperman Joseph Medill Patterson to achieve authenticity in this melodrama, which opened on 6 October 1909 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 93 performances. Signaled as "the first of the modern newspaper plays," this work had a fourth act set in a composing room at press time with the noisy Mergenthaler machines in operation.
The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater. James Fisher.