Opera House, Kirkcaldy

‘At the Opera House next week, Mr Fred Collins will present G. Carlton Wallace’s world-famous production entitled The Enemy in Our Midst. It is described as a startling, new, up-to-the-moment play, and throughout its twelve scenes it depicts vividly the doings of the enemy in our midst, and shows the dangers attached to allowing unregistered German women in our country, and how a German step-mother fools her great-hearted step-son. All should see the great Zeppelin raid - British guns and biplane versus German Zeppelin. Times and prices as usual’. Fifeshire Advertiser, 3 February 1917.

‘“The Unmarried Mother,” and the famous “Allington Opera Company” will divide the week at the Opera House’. Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian, 2 February 1918.

‘From Monday till Wednesday next “Neither Wife Nor Maid” will prove the attraction at the Opera House, while for the remainder of the week “Sapho” will be produced’. Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian, 2 March 1918. The play was advertised in the paper on the same day as ‘For Adults Only! … The Great Problem Play’.

Previewed in the Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian, 7 September 1918: ‘Since the 4th of August, 1914, much has been written and read regarding the actualities of war, and one subject that has always been prominently before the public, is the German spy menace. Through the enterprise of Mr Harry Leaton, the well-known Scottish variety agent, there is to be presented at the Opera House, Kirkcaldy, on Monday first, a thrilling four-act play dealing with the spy peril, entitled “Carry On.” It is from the pen of another well-known gentleman in the theatrical world, namely Mr G. Gordon Jefferson, late manager of the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow. The plot centres round the machinations of two enemy spies, who get into this country in the guise of American tourists, and endeavour to steal a powerful new type of British aeroplane, but their designs eventually are cleverly frustrated’.