Location:
Theater:
Date:
Type:
The spot light was mistakingly allowed to follow the burglar upon his entrance and over the room.
The sketch carries Percy Waggam and Company's English accent with it, in both the speech and idea. The act is set in an English inn. The owner, a widow who also acts as the barmaid, is beloved by an elderly retired sea captain. She does not take him seriously. He pays a discharged soldier $10 (2 pounds) to burglarize the house so that he can act as the hero. There is comedy in the arrangement and at the final denouement when the sea captain believes the widow killed the burglar.
The soldier was extremely well played. The fellow who enacted the "old salt" and the widow passed.
Source:
Variety 24:8 (10/28/1911)