The War Men-Agerie

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

The idea of this masque is fairly ingenious. Some 40 animals are introduced one by one, and each one represents either a country or a personage concerned in the War. Sometimes that is done directly. As the Lion, the Bear, and so forth; sometimes by a simple play on words, as King-Fisher or the Terrier; sometimes by a slight change, as the Eph-e-lant (for F. E. Smith). A chorus introduces each with an appropriate remark, written here as prose but really in the rhymed couplets. There is nothing whatever objectionable in any of these lines. I paused on some chaff of the press censor (p.2) but even that is harmless. As there is no dialogue or action the presentation of personages is of course merely equivalent to pictures on a screen and cannot possibly obey objectionable. Recommended for license. G. S. Street