The Sleeping Beauty

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is an allegorical and symbolical affair and the precise meaning is a little obscure. The God Mars comes to the christening of Britannia and puts her under a curse that she shall prick her finger and die, but the good fairy substitutes a hundred years for death. In the second act, seamstresses, provoked by an unjust army contractor, tie him up, and Britannia in untying him pricks her finger and goes to sleep. But the prince stress-and-strain releases her. It is rather a muddle of inferior heroic couplets, but I can discover no possible harm in it. Songs are mentioned and not sent, but it is so impossible that they should be offensive that I should hardly think it necessary to send for them. Recommended for license. G. S. Street. [Added as a separate sheet, accompanying additions to the play which are handwritten, is the following, dated 4 May 1917] These are very slight, consisting, mainly of a eulogistic sentence to the United States and it can be passed. It will be enough simply to file this as with the rest. G. S. Street