Opened in August 1913. Ran 132 performances, to about November 1913. Believe Me, Xantippe is a play written in 1912 by John Frederick Ballard, while a postgraduate student at Harvard University. Its author labelled it a comedy, but reviewers judged it a melodramatic farce. It has four acts, with three settings and ten characters. The story concerns a bet that an intelligent man can avoid being apprehended for a minor crime. The action of the play spans one years time. Wiki link