Married Midst Shot And Shell [The Bride of the Battlefield]

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

A war-melodrama of the cheapest and crudest order of pseudo-realistic but impossible fiction. The young people ultimately 'married midst shot and shell' are an English officer - a soldier - with a wonderful invention for submarine warfare - and the daughter of a country Vicar who has gone to the front as a Chaplain. It is the Vicar who performs the very informal ceremony close to the field of battle in Belgium, where all the characters are miraculously brought together. They include a German spy, masquerading as an English Colonel, who is the villain of the piece, and a comic but faithful footman, disguised as a Red Cross nurse, who defeats the German spy at the very moment when he expects to possess himself of the clergyman’s daughter, and to steal for his government the secret invention of her lover. The whole piece is utterly silly both in conception and execution; but it is otherwise unobjectionable. Recommended for license. Earnest A. Bendall.

Researcher's Summary:

Licensed under the title 'Married midst Shot and Shell' but performed under the title 'The Bride of the Battlefield or Married Midst Shot and Shell'. The authors listed on the script submitted for licence were John E Strange and James Wright, however, no evidence has been found that James Wright was a co-author.