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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1314, 1 July 1915, Page 38

Have you ever noticed what particular sentence it is that raises the biggest laugh in a play? (asks a writer in a London paper). In two of the last theatres I have visited the action was held up entirely by the outburst of laughter that followed one remark. In the one case, a German mother, who was incidentally a snv. was sneaking. The sentence was, “My son. you may even be presented by our Imperial Master with the Iron Cross!” In the other, the chief character, who happened to be Mr. Joseph Coyne, was addressing a hotel manager who had an enormous black beard down to his waist. Tn the middle of a speech Mr. Coyne suddenly says, “Tell me, do you sleep with that under the bedclothes, or outside?” In both cases the piece could not proceed for many moments.