Y'A D'Jolies Femmes

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a merry but quite incoherent revue, dealing with the war, with its fashions, its humours, its sentiments, and with all sorts of incongruities, both at home and abroad. It opens in a chateau at Trou-sur-Marne occupied by the Germans, who are about to entertain their Emperor, hood-winking him into the belief that he eating his promised dinner in Paris. To the delight of the owners of the chateau there appear on the scene some French troops to eat the meal, and press the Germans into service as waiters. Tere follow sketches of Paris in enforced darkness, of the making of war-bread a la Berlin, of the Parisian 'knut' of the period, of Belgian training for the army, of patriotic work girls and their millinery achievements. Then come a Robert Macaire episode brought up to date, a skit upon Charley's Aunt who is asked by her nephew to take him to Charley's Aunt who is asked by her nephew to take him to various lively entertainments, and an ingenious application of the periscope for discovering the doings of the audience in front of the foot-lights. The melange includes also a Tommies's scene in Belgium, the romance of a vivified mummy in Egypt and a harlequin ballet by moon light in Venice. There seems to be nothing but harmless if not particularly witty fun in any of the mileage, which is accordingly recommended for license, Ernest A. Bendall.