Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 185
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[Page 185]
"Name the Tune". Its a good spectacle & funny. Miss [Mankuran?] dances beautifully but I think Ivy Schilling is better than the English girl. The chief vocalist Miss Lee White is American-blue & heavy & not as good as Olive Godwin though she has plenty of go. The funniest part is Old London outside the Globe Theatre & John would have enjoyed (or otherwise) seeing Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, Shylock, Drake, Raleigh, Sir John Oldcastle, Bacon & Mistress Quickley in a Revue. Raleigh steals a beautiful cloak - (not his own, for history is false) & then makes a patch of mud just where Lizzie has to walk. He drops the cloak & wins kudos. Then he introduces to England tobacco & the Raleigh Rag. The latter's the first rag-time.
Hillaire Belloc & H.G. Wells are [caricured?] in the Review.
I went with Bob Nield to the Colisium & saw [Adeline] Genee again.She is as charming as ever.