A Bit Kiss

The only mention of the play being performed is given in reports of a charity performance in aid of both the Edinburgh War Hospital (Bangour) Entertainment Committee and the Edinburgh Children's Holiday Scheme. 'A Bit Kiss' and 'His Lady Friend' were performed to a full house by 'a company of well-known local artistes under the efficient stage managership of Mr Graeme Goring' (Edinburgh Evening News, 27 June 1918). It was somethnig of a tradition for the King's Theatre to open its Wedensday afternoon doors to amateur dramatic societies in Edinburgh to put on entertainments usually for charity or the funding of other productions. Performed alongside these two pieces were 'Cash On Delivery' (First Act only: performed by Mr Seymour Hicks and his professional touring cast who were in residence for that week in the Kings Theatre), 'His Lady Friend', Singers Miss Goldie-Scott and Singer Eric Masters, musical accompaniment and intervals by the Craiglockhart Orchestra, (its members were drawn from patients and staff of the hospital. Two of it's most famous patients, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon would have known members of the orchestra but had returned to active service by this date.)