Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 149
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[Page 149]
However I got to London only to find Lon had departed 36 hours before. It was pretty disappointing & disheartening & I nearly just went straight back to France. However he had left things for me to square & I had a bit of biz of my own & other chaps to do so I stayed but I can't say I enjoyed it terribly & the coming back was awful.
The weather was unspeakable, cold, wet & snowy. Oh friggish. I saw two or three theatres, Zig Zag with George Robey, Shirley Kellogg & a little girl, an Australian, named Daphne Pollard where were the chief stars & were very good. The first & last being very funny. Then I saw the Maid of the Mountains, a simply splendid thing, gorgeously mounted, the colouring was wonderful & the music good. I loved Jose Collins & Thorpe Bates' singing was absolutely A.1.
Also saw Oscar Ashe & Lily Brayton in Chu Chin Chow. Just the old "Forty Thieves" but wonderfully well done. The dressing & mounting was simply gorgeous & quite Eastern. Music in it too. Lily Brayton was rather terrible I thought. Tansey (who has got a star now & was at a school in the country) came up for the