Kinema, Newark

The Newark Herald, 20 October 1917, advertised at The Kinema for the following week the ‘Expensive Engagement of Cissie Langley & Company In the Great War Sketch as Toured by her throughout all the principal Theatres of Great Britain, “Nurse and Martyr.” Also Frank Leigh, The Famous Comedian, from Clements’ Entertainers. For Special Pictures see Bills’. ‘A programme, quite out of the ordinary, is being shown this week at the Kinema, pride of place being taken by Cissie Langley and Co., in a dramatic sketch, “Nurse and Martyr,” founded on the German murder of Edith Cavell. The setting is a hospital ward in Brussels and the matron, an Englishwoman, had heroically and loyally stuck to her post when the German invaders took Brussels. For her part in helping the wounded British soldiers to the frontier, she is condemned to death, and fainting at the sight of the firing party she is shot by a brutal German officer. All the parts are admirably presented, but position of honour must be given to Miss Cissie Langley, who gives a fine display of emotional acting, while the boy who takes the part of a wounded French boy “Trumpetaire,” infuses into it much pathos. The playlette has been drawing crowded houses throughout the week, and this popular house is sure to be crowded again to-night. Last night the Company presented “This Tainted Woman,” when the house was packed’. The review continued with an account of the variety acts and pictures which completed the bill. Newark Herald, 27 October 1917.