Grand, Mansfield

Mentioned in advertisements in The Stage, 28 November 1918 as Back to Wife and Home and 9 January 1919 as Home From The Trenches. ‘For the Christmas holidays Mr. Clayton has secured a most appropriate attraction. Mr. Will H. Glaze's great moral lesson play, "Home from the Trenches," by Jefferson. A play dealing with the present day social problem, exposing frankly and fearlessly the dangers besetting innocent girls and young married women, which everyone interested, both in their own welfare and the moral teaching and guidance of our future motherhood, should see. In addition to the gripping story there is an abundance of really excellent comedy running through the play’. Mansfield Reporter, 20 December 1918.

The Mansfield Reporter of Friday 24 January 1919 reported, ‘Next week Mr. Lew Lake, whose name is so well known to theatre goers all over the country, will present at this theatre [the Grand, Mansfield] his latest and greatest success, “Married on Leave”, a strong story of the events of to-day, by Miss Dorothy Mullard [sic]. In addition to the human interest which runs through the play, it has a grip which holds one spell bound as you witness the sensational fall of the German Gotha, and with abated breath watch a realistic fight in the air. It is undoubtedly the acme of realism and should not be missed, and an attraction which bears the Hall mark of Mr. Lew Lake’s name is bound to be excellent’. The same issue of the Mansfield Reporter also carried an advertisement for the production: ‘Lew Lake presents the greatest dramatic success of the season … [with the] entire London company, and original production’, twice nightly with no mention of matinées.