Reported Missing
Examiner of Plays' Summary:
A typical war melodrama, the plot and treatment of which have now become conventional, alike in incident and characterisation. To share the trained serious interest there are the two brothers, Captain Jack and Private Joe, the former of whom has married Mary the latter's sweetheart, and has been 'reported missing'. Before the year of mourning is out Mary has married her old love, Joe in all good faith, and has had a child by him; and then of course Captain Jack returns. For a time he is hood-winked by the self-sacrificing subterfuge of a humble friend of Mary's who claims the baby as hers; but when the truth at length comes out the first husband generously makes way for the second, in whose interest she offers to divorce his innocently bigamist wife. The crude sentiment of this more or less realistic romance is relieved by the equally crude humour of trench life a la 'Old Bill' as enjoyed by the brave but comic soldiers beloved by the pit and gallery of to-day. Difficult to take seriously; but impossible to object to on the grounds of raw improbability. Recommended for Licence. Ernest A. Bendall.
Licensed On: 22 May 1918
License Number: 1576
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British Library Reference: LCP1918/9
British Library Classmark: Add MS 66191 O
Performances
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| 27 May 1918 | Theatre Royal, Oldham | Professional |
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Performers: Reginald Hartley (actor), Terry Davies (actor), Frank Caffrey (actor), Alfred Denville (actor), Jack McCaig (actor), Mr S Clewlow (actor), Mr J B Stanley (actor), Marjorie Denville (actress), Maysie Wright (actress), Godfrey Turner (actor)
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| 2 Sep 1918 | Gillsmith's Hippodrome, Cheltenham | Professional |
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Performers: Terry Davies (actor), Sydney J Andrews (actor), Dorothy Hildebrand (actress), Herbert Burton (actor), The Brennan Glee Singers.
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| 9 Sep 1918 | Opera House, Coventry | Professional |
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Reviews: "Comedy drama - laughter and thrills alternate and the whole piece should prove a tonic for jaded war nerves. 'Reported Missing' is played by a large company including Brennan Glee Singers", Coventry Standard
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| 16 Sep 1918 | Tyne Theatre, Newcastle | Professional |
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Reviews: "Latest sensation - prior to London", Newcastle Journal
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| 1 Dec 1918 | Pontrypridd, Pontypridd | Professional | |
| 27 Jan 1919 | Palace Theatre, Redditch | Professional | |
| 3 Feb 1919 | Pavillion, Northwich | Professional |
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Performers: Edward H Hobart (actor), Horace L Wheatley (actor), Richard Cowell (actor), Terry Davies (actor), Nancy Mitchell (actress), Nellie De Lacy (actress), Dorothy Hildebrand (actress), Brennan Glee Party.
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| 3 Mar 1919 | Theatre Royal, Whitehaven | Professional | |
| 10 Mar 1919 | Prince's Theatre, Bradford | Professional |
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Performers: Edward H Hobart (actor), Horace L Wheatley (actor), Richard Cowell (actor), Terry Davies (actor), Newton Pierce (actor), Brennan Glee Party. Reviews: "Denville's production of 'Reported Missing' is causing much interest here. Dorothy Hildebrand in the part of Mary Meredith is the moving spirit of the play.", The Stage
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| 26 May 1919 | Theatre Royal, Hanley | Professional | |
| 20 Dec 1919 | Opera House, Dudley | Professional |