Theater:
Type:
Comic dialogue.
McCowan, Gordon and Co. have a playlet that will recall the "Halloween" sketch played by Emmett DeVoy. It is different in treatment but the main theme is the same, the return of a boy (with McCowan and Gordon) the boy shooting in the parlor while the childless husband is asleep, dreaming and announcing himself as "the feller you use to be." "The feller" is the boy about 12 (although the character may have been taken by a girl in the sketch). He revived memories of the man's youth and the latter joined in with the boy in his rompings. It also altered his mannish views and tended toward general happiness of the family. This is rather charming in its outline. It might be big enough for a play, but the McCowan and Gordon sketch left it standing still. The playlet is poorly written, the boy is not introduced until almost everyone in the house could have wished that it had ended and Mr. McCowan, with considerable breeziness in playing was the single mainstay. It's far from big time. Small time may accept it. Early there was endless dialog between husband and wife, with the wife wanting to adopt a child.
Source:
Variety, 53:8 (01/17/1919)