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The two key actors of "As Others See Us" are McKee Rankin and a "little Jap." The Japanese fellow has the best comedy lines, which may be the fault of the authoress, Mrs. Sidney Drew. The other characters include the Irish cook, a daughter and an overseer. The sketch is about an irascible old man who has been deaf for fifteen years. Believing he is still deaf, all his messages conveyed by slate, the farm hands, daughter, cook and overseer take turns in "panning" the old man within his hearing. He catches a glimpse at how he is viewed by the countryside. The Jap boy tells his opinion slap bang, while expressing the exactly opposite terms upon the slate. Then the old man relents, makes over as it were, and incidentally learns that his daughter did not wish to marry "Mike." Nor did the overseer write for permission to marry the cook. The overseer, an adopted son, asked the hand of his daughter.
Some of the actors, the daughter in particular, did not impress at all. The sketch is dragged out, at least 8 minutes should be cut. However, Rankin could not have looked or played the old grumpy father any better. Once everything is smoothed out he will have a nice comedy piece.
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Variety 24:1 (09/09/1911)