Great War Theatre

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a farcical domestic comedy, dealing largely with the humours of an establishment for paying guests kept by a vulgar woman with a couple of daughters, one very romantic and the other defiantly prosaic. These humours are brought out amusingly enough in lively action and flippant dialogue between the girls and their admirers. The plot, however, which strings them together is bewildering in its amateurish eccentricity. It concerns the singular proceedings of the boarding house keeper's long lost husband, who, under the influence of a "Theosophical Centre", has mixed himself up with the suspected Maurer of an Eastern potentate and the theft of some sacred jewels belonging to a Burmese idol. These jewels are ultimately identified in the eyes of a stuffed "bird" which is the chief ornament of the parlour and which gives the puzzling piece its name. it would be a long and bootless task to describe in detail the complications of the melodramatic theme utterly foreign to its farcical surroundings, but fortunately free from any offence save incomprehensible incongruity. Recommended for licence, Ernest A. Bendall.

Licensed On: 30 Aug 1916

License Number: 429

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British Library Reference: LCP1916/20

British Library Classmark: Add MS 66141 J

Performances

Date Theatre Type
2 Sep 1916 Alexandra Theatre, Ilfracombe Unknown Licensed Performance