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Comic dialogue and observations.
Principal character performs offstage.
... the revival of "What Happened to Ruth?", the comedy sketch with the principal character, a man in an upper box who makes comedy observations during the progress of the playlet. Two or three of his comments were good for laughs, and the plan is likable to those who did not see it before, but the sketch doesn't look as big in its comedy values now as when first shows four or five years ago, and the woman in the cast on the stage does not help it. A playlet like this needs a corking company of two to play it and another to talk it from the side. The box man is still quite the best and looks like the original, although how can an A.K. remember back five years?
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Variety, 53:8 (01/24/1919)