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The scene is set near a race track where three people enact a light dramatic affair with many comedy bits. The actors include Mr. Schooley, as a tout, as well as a girl and young man who are engaged. The young man is a bank clerk who has taken $2500 of the banks money and lost it all on the horses. The tout brings him a sure thing but he turns it down. While they are discussing things a girl enters in time to hear the white haired boy confess to the tout his theft. The man persuades her to place her engagement ring against the bet. The tout describes the race looking over his shoulder. Of course the long-shot wins and everyone is happy.
Schooley's work is excellent. The one thing that would hold this sketch off the big time would be William Courtllegh's "Peaches."
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Variety 24:6 (10/14/1911)