"The Better Ole" was the long-time name for a restaurant in Brookhaven, LI, NY, established shortly after the end of WW I. The name "Better 'Ole" came from a WWI expression that went something like "If you find a better 'ole, run for it". This expression was incorporated into a well know cartoon at the time by Bruce Bairnsfather. He also was the playwright for the original play of the adventures of Old Bill and his friends, Bert and Alf, in the trenches of the first World War. The play had different versions; in 1917, a successful musical based on the character Old Bill, "The Better 'Ole," opened in London at the Oxford Music Hall, where it ran for over 800 performances, starring Arthur Bourchier as Old Bill. In 1918-1919, it ran successfully in New York City at several different theaters, where Charles Coburn starred as Old Bill. It was made into a 1919 silent film and, in 1926, a Warner Brothers film staring Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy, and Charles K. Gerrard. Syd Chaplin was Charlie Chaplin's older half-brother.