Ciro’s Frolics

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

It is impossible to divide this production into scenes, as it is simply a medley of disconnected incidents and songs. The idea is that performers, who strait the affair with a dialogue between themselves, agree to give an entertainment to the soldiers at Ciros, as now taken over by the YMCA, and the entertainment follows. The chief items are (1) a sham melodramatic incident in a taxi. 2) a burlesque meeting of a local food committee 3) a comic incident in France of a Tommy scoring off a boche, 4) a man tuning a doctor’s piano and being mistaken by a lady patient of the doctor with a conversation at cross purposes. I passed one - p28-35 - which relates to how a (comic) boche breaks into a lady’s bedroom and wants to kiss her, runs away hearing the British are arriving and comes back to find a Tommy in bed instead of the lady, when the Tommy parades the wolf in the little Red Riding Hood story and then kicks him out. But it is s quite innocent fun with no suggestion of impropriety in the first part and the latter part of course mere falling. There is a little vulgarity in the other incidents but nothing to matter and the whole entertainment strikes me as harmless. Recommended for license. G. S. Street