7 OCTOBER 1916, Page 26

Hobson's Choke : a Three ActComedy. By Harold Brighouse. (Constable

and Co. 2s. net.)—A play of Lancashire life, cleverly written, and with plenty of the caustic humour peculiar—on the stage —to that county. Four acts of Maggie Hobson's brusquerie and terrifying capacity for managing. everybody and everything are a little : wearing, but in spite of that the play is worth reading. And in any case we have to thank Mr. Brighouse for making us acquainted with that

attractive person, Willie Mossop. . -