Electric Theatre, Brecon

The Brecon and Radnor Express, Thursday 3 May 1917, advertised at the Electric Theatre, Brecon, on Monday-Wednesday the following week, the ‘Special Engagement of Cissie Langley & Co. in her Great War Sketch, as toured by her throughout the United Kingdom’, Nurse Cavell, Martyr, ‘licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, according to Act of Parliament’. The sketch ‘has been pronounced to be one of the best ever written, showing how this Nurse bravely sacrificed her life to the call of duty’. The cast was General Von Mulley [sic], murderer, Marcus Grey; Pat O’Leary (of the Dublin Fusiliers), L. Nemo; Father Poland (a Priest), Edwin Turner; Henri de Belfort (a victim of German Kultur), Master Jack Lauri; Nurse Edith Cavell, Cissie Langley. The scene was the interior of a nursing home in Brussels. On Thursday-Saturday For King and Country would be played. (Source: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4094594/4094602.)