The Passing Show Of 1918

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is apparently a new filling-in of the frame-work provided in a former and wittier 'passing show'. it has, however, rather more of a story than its predecessor, as it shows among other things how its hero, a non-marrying young peer in the Flying Corps falls in love with the showman's fair daughter, who pluckily becomes a W.R.N and helps him to safety when he and his aeroplane have come to grief; and who ultimately becomes his wife. Among the topical subjects incidentally chaffed are a tribunal for celibates, a journey in a train filled by bomb-dodging and card-playing aliens, a quarrel between jealous allotment-holders: and a familiar scene in 'The Better 'Ole!' The fun, if occasionally rather rough and pantomimic, is always good-humoured in its spirit, and suggests no offence. Recommended for licence. Earnest A. Bendall