Palladium, Beeston

‘One of the biggest things ever brought to the notice of Beeston people is due to appear at the Palladium next week. We refer to the coming of Cissie Langley and No. 1 Company in the great war sketch, Nurse and Martyr, as toured by her in all the principal theatres. This is pronounced to be one of the finest sketches ever written, showing how a nurse sacrificed her life at duty’s call. The scene is the interior of a nursing home in Brussels. On Friday night there will be a special performance for adults only when the Tainted Woman will be played, this being a dramatic episode, dealing with the greatest curse of modern times - the hidden plague. The plot of the sketch is founded on actual facts, and the physiological data has been amply confirmed by the highest medical authorities’. Beeston Gazette and Echo, 31 August 1918.