Dr. Jonathan

A three-act stage play set in a New England mill village centers on the arrival of a medically trained man to his ancestral home and the resulting strain within a powerful industrial family. The patriarch's conservative outlook clashes with the newcomer's progressive experiments and the younger generation's sympathies toward labor, while wartime pressures and questions of economic independence, social responsibility, and religious skepticism intensify disputes. Scenes unfold in the family's library and around town as personal loyalties, employer–employee relations, and debates over industrial democracy are tested, prompting characters to confront how social change might be ordered or collapse into disorder.