Poached Eggs and Pearls

'The Lighter Side of the War. Miss Gertrude Jennings, whose talent in working out an idea for curtain raiser has been so marked, provides a delightful bit of comedy at the under title "Poached Eggs and Pearls.'' It is an amiable burlesque canteen for soldiers which run by High Society. Miss Doris Lytton. as the Duchess, is behind the counter, and dulcidly manages. There, too, also, is an absolutely incapable elderly dame, who flounders about affection for the 'dear soldiers'. She referred to in private conversation by one of the Tommies as the 'old bird'. Society waitresses, with their partiality for airmen, are amusingly caricatured, but two of the khaki boys, commenting on the attendants and the food, make even better play. The canteens of the free order are mostly excellent, but the hits against feminine caprices are not mere efforts of imagination, Miss Jennings uses amusingly.' (Derby Daily Telegraph, 22 November 1916)