 As he was responsible for 14 theatres around the country at the time, he appointed Mrs D. Valantine Munro as the local manager.Performances were maintained during World War I, and in 1916 Sarah Bernhardt portrayed a wounded male French soldier in "Du Théâtre au Champ d'Honneur".In the 1920s there were appearances by the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.