Alhambra, Devonport

Performed by Dorothy Mullord's London Repertory Company, twice nightly at 6.30 and 8.45.

Advertised in the Western Morning News, 13 December 1927: ‘Fourteenth week of the popular Dorothy Mullord London repertory company in the very fine domestic play “His Last Leave”’. Also: ‘Alhambra. “His Last Leave,” a domestic play, written by Clifford Rean, proved highly popular to full houses. It was cleverly presented by the Dorothy Mullord London Repertory Company, both the theme and the acting appealing strongly to the audiences. The hero is Richard Maxwell (Pat Hunt-Lewis), in love with his cousin, Rose Maxwell (Valerie Crespin). The villain, who tries to rob him of his sweetheart, is Major the Hon. Robert Saltire, lord of the manor (Herbert Evelyn). There is a war episode, the major being in command, and while at the front he dies all that a British officer could never bring himself to do in trying to get rid of the hero. He is assisted by a nurse (Millie Phillips), but their plans are detected by Corpl. Trimfoot (Roland Hope) and Pte. Erb (Billie Owen,) the comedian of the play. The story ends with the wedding bells’ (Western Morning News, 13 December 1927). And noted in The Era, 14 December 1927, ‘the leading parts being undertaken by P. H. Lewis, H. Evelyn, V. Crespin, B. Owen, W. Dexter, A. Frank, R. Hope and M. Phillips’.

Presented by the Dorothy Mullord London Repertory Company.