With its chorus of scantily clad slave-girls paraded around the stage by ranks of muscular men, the West End musical Chu Chin Chow seemed an unlikely choice of festive treat for King George V and Queen Mary. There was certainly much tamer fare on offer in London's theatreland that Christmas of 1918, including productions of Babes In The Wood, starring 'the most winsome Principal Boy imaginable' and a 'gorgeous and glittering Cinderella'. Yet there the royal couple were on the evening of December 28, taking in a show so daring that complaints had been made about it to the Lord Chamberlain, the censor of the day.