Comedy Theatre, North Shields, Tyne and Wear

The other acts on the bill at the Comedy Theatre of Varieties were: "The Deldees, Jack Cavall, Wally & Bert, Arthur Cannworth, Happy Attwood" Advertised in the "Shields Daily News", 31 May 1916

The Shields Daily News, 21 January 1918, advertised at the Comedy Theatre of Varieties, Saville Street, North Shields, for the week of 21 January, a number of variety acts and also the ‘Expensive Engagement of the Well-known Actress, Cissie Langley and Company In the Great War Sketch Nurse and Martyr’. The cast was: General Von Muller (murderer), E. W. Bretton; Pat O’Leary (of the Dublin Fusiliers), A. Beverley; Father Polland [sic – Poland] (a Priest), L. Nemo; Henri de Belford (a victim to German Kulture), Master Jack Laurie; Nurse and Martyr, Cissie Langley. The setting was the interior of a nursing home in Brussels. On Thursday night, at both houses, The Tainted Woman would be played. Also: ‘Miss Cissie Langley and Co., play a sketch, entitled “Nurse and Martyr,” which is a representation of the fate of the beautiful Nurse Cavell; it is played with such power by all the members of the sketch that the hearts of all are most deeply touched. Incidentally, the member of the company playing the part of the German General has to do and say things that are very unpleasant both to himself and the audience, but they are, after all, not so bad as what the Germans themselves have said and done’ (Shields Daily News, 22 January 1918).

The Shields Daily News, 22 October 1918, advertised at the Comedy Theatre various variety acts and also the ‘Return of the Great Actress: Cissie Langley and Company in the Great War Sketch: Nurse and Martyr. One of the Finest Sketches ever Written’, with The Tainted Woman on Thursday night.

The Shields Daily News, Monday 11 August 1919, advertised ‘Duncan and Brasque In a playlet, “Settling Day”’ on a bill at the Comedy Theatre.

The Shields Daily News, Thursday 17 November 1921, advertised at the Comedy Theatre, Saville Street, on Thursday and Saturday, Cissie Langley & Co. in Nurse and Martyr.