Arcadia, Colwyn Bay

The North Wales Weekly News, 3 December 1925, advertised at the Arcadia, Colwyn Bay, on Monday 7 December and during the week, a programme that included the ‘Expensive Engagement of Miss Cissie Langley and her celebrated Players in Repertoire of High-class Playlets. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, - the celebrated war sketch, -Nurse Cavell, Martyr. By *Jean Leseaus. Portraying how this Nurse bravely sacrificed her life at Duty’s Call’. Also, on Thursday The Trail of Shame, and on Friday and Saturday Only a Dream. [* There is no Jean Leseaus in Allardyce Nicoll, English Drama 1900-1930.] ‘A mixed bill of drama and variety is being presented at the Arcadia during the present week. On Monday Cissie Langley and her players presented a dramatic sketch, “Nurse Cavell, Martyr.” Other dramatic items to be presented are Trial of Shame,” a short play on the lines of “Damaged Goods,” and “Only a Dream,” by Charlton Shearer' (The Stage, 10 December 1925).