Billboard was much harsher ("cheap and silly melodrama... trying to cash in on a national crisis... Not content with a plot like that, Mr. Connelly has peopled it entirely with caricatures... Evidently seeing the weakness of his nonsensical fable, Mr. Connelly has tried to daub splotches of red, white, and blue paint on its crumbling stucco... tasteless effort to wrap the flag around the glaring weaknesses of the play"). Billboard did avow that the cast was generally excellent, and in a later issue singled out Thomas Gomez for the "humanity and finely effective detail of his character work" in the play while archly summarizing the work itself as one where "Marc Connelly suggested that the way to cure incipient Fascism in Mexico is to have an American business man go down there and pretend to be a venerated local saint" after (in earlier issue) dismissing it with "As for... Marc Connelley's The Flowers of Virtue, it seems silly to mention [it] in a discussion of adult drama". At any rate, the play has apparently never been staged since its 1942 Broadway flop, nor published. References 1942 plays Broadway plays Plays by Marc Connelly Plays set in Mexico