The Newlyweds and their Baby

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This farce, with musical illustrations, is frankly and childishly impossible, alike in plot and characterisation. A young couple, devoted to their baby, whom they have christened Napoleon and address as Snookums, manage to lose their infant through the blundering of a couple of clowns of the old circus order, over a dog called Napoleon and a performing bear answering to the same name. The confusion is added to by the eccentric efforts of a young man to win the distracted parents favour by pretending to have found the missing baby, substituting in is place a dwarf, apparently of adult years, dressed after the manner of an infant of seventeen months. The utter nonsense does not read as though it could raise a laugh even in a hippodrome: but it certainly could not raise a blush: and it is recommended for Licence. Ernest A. Bendall. The songs if new must be forwarded for consideration. Songs now forwarded and found unobjectionable. E A B. 30/8/16.