“[On the phone] "My dear Jim's dead…No dear, he jumped off Waterloo Bridge - Yes, the one next to Charing Cross - No, no, no that's Blackfriars."”

—  Noel Coward

Early review, cited in Frank Muir's Book of Comedy Sketches.

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