This is much more than just a film about alcoholism, and not only the lead character (Ruth Warrick) is important, but there are many characters here of vital importance, one of them being the bartender (Rhys Williams) who both introduces the film and finishes it off, another being the politician, running for mayor of the town (Victor Kilian) who is caught bare-handed on a drinking bout in the street for unruly behaviour, which makes headlines, his drinking leading him straight down to nowhere, the child Ginger Prince who makes a gorgeous performance, the husband Richard Travis, who gets sacked for having a drunk wife, and his colleague, the constantly drunk Billy Leighton (William Tracy) who actually makes the best scene of the film as the expectant father watching through the glass the sensitive operation of his wife giving birth, a marvellous pantomime performance, saying nothing but expressing everything, and so on. The subject is serious of course and treated in full, and we never learn the full background story. It is evident though that Ruth Warrick was a rising concert pianist of the first rank, then she married and had her daughter and started drinking and could not stop. We never learn the actual outcome of her various treatments, but she does play again in the end, so you must suspect that it was partly the music that saved her. The Harmonaires introduce the finale with three wonderful performances before she enters the scene to at last reveal her true self.