All Scotch

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

Those responsible are to be congratulated on his revue, which relies on good honest fun, as well as some prettiness of effect for its attraction and is free from suggestiveness and prurience. There is only one scene (the 2nd in Act II) which approaches the ordinary 'low comedy' business, and that is only broad scots humour so far as the dialogue goes and I do not think any risqué business is indicated. The revue starts in a Glasgow bank, with women clerks etc., the men having gone to the war, a comic affair of timid depositors and a sham burglary scene; goes off to Edinburgh with a humorous quarrel between an Edinburgh and a Glasgow man; to golf links with a comic American journalist; to a sea shore with an old legend; to an Aberdeen bakery, the scene referred to above, with a special constable (quite innocent of offence to any sensible member of the force); and finally to the house of a chieftain, where young women personate the absent chiefs in his annual reception, the whole ending with a medley of old Scottish songs. There are, of course, the old jokes about the Scotch, but the affair is throughout sympathetic to Scotchmen and I gather will be played by Scotch players. One song is omitted, but it is stated that it will be sent in before it is used. It should be jolly and inoffensive entertainment. Recommended for license. G. S. Street.