Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 by Various
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its wholesomeness, its easy humour and its effect of honest entertainment.
Not a highbrow adventure, it is not to be judged by highbrow standards. It is decently in key, and an exceptionally clever cast carried it adroitly over any rough places. Remarkable, too, as almost the first popular testimonial since the War began to the too-much-taken-for-granted Territorials, who worked in the old days while we scoffed and golfed. That's all to the good. [Illustration: THE TAILOR WHO DID NOT NEED TO PRESS HIS SUIT. _Sir Dennys Broughton_ ... MR. NORMAN MCKINNEL. _Lady Broughton_ ... MISS LILIAN BRAITHWAITE. _Edward Smith (tailor)_ ... MR. GEORGE TULLY.] Our author's hero is an excellent provincial tailor, who is also keen _Captain Smith_ in the Sheffingham Terriers. As tailor his chief customer, as soldier his contemptuous scandalised critic, is _Sir Dennys Broughton_, whose wayward flapper daughter _Betty_ is in the early fierce stages of revolt against the stuffiness of life at Grange Court, meets _Smith_ over some boys' club work, and, finding brains and dreams in him (a formidable contrast to her loafing brother), falls into passionate first-love. _Smith_ is just as badly if more soberly hit, and recognising the impossibility of the situation (quite apart from demonstrations by the alarmed _Broughtons_) decides to take his tape and shears to his London house of business. The date of all this being about the time of the misguided _Panther's_ fateful leap on Agadir. Act II. brings us to the second year of the War. Young _Broughton_, puppy |
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