Here And There (Revised Version)

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

A revue or medley of scenes, songs, and snatches of burlesque, without any attempt to link them together by plot or dramatic purpose. There is some cross-talk over the telephone leading up to chaff of Mr Horatio Bottomley and his omniscient ‘John Bull’. There is an amusing matrimonial quarrel between a man and his wife and their secretly-married servants, in which the latter score by alternately hood-winking and helping their employers to a reconciliation. A burlesque of ‘the thirteenth chair’, makes the real murderer fail in his repeated attempts to confess himself the criminal about whose detection so much needless fuss is being made. There is a ‘misunderstanding’ between a couples of business men over their wives whom they have secretly married, while another familiar note is struck in the humours of a burlesque restaurant. An ‘oriental travesty’ introduces a sultana with a harem of jealous husbands, and there is some personal banter of actors like Oscar Asche, Hicks, and Bourchier, and actresses like Gaby Desly. The bronze statue of Beaconsfield is made to say what he thinks of our military politics and a German insists upon giving himself up as prisoner. There is no offence in any of the witless banter; but care must be taken as to the decency of the 'stocking' business as marked on p.2 of the restaurant scene. Recommended for license. Ernest A. Bendall.