Then could be seen every night in the theatres oldfashioned
farcical comedies, in which a bedroom, with four doors on each
side and a practicable window in the middle, was understood to
resemble exactly the bedroom in the flats beneath and above, all
three inhabited by couples consumed with jealousy. When these
people came home drunk at night; mistook their neighbor's flats
for their own; and in due course got into the wrong beds, it was
not only the novices who found the resulting complications and
scandals exquisitely ingenious and amusing, nor their equally
verdant flappers who could not help squealing in a manner that
astonished the oldest performers when the gentleman who had just
come in drunk through the window pretended to undress, and
allowed glimpses of his naked person to be descried from time to
time.



Heartbreak House

Men who had just read the news that Charles Wyndham was dying,
and were thereby sadly reminded of Pink Dominos and the torrent
of farcical comedies that followed it in his heyday until every
trick of that trade had become so stale that the laughter they
provoked turned to loathing: these veterans also, when they
returned from the field, were as much pleased by what they knew
to be stale and foolish as the novices by what they thought fresh
and clever.