“The Corner Store”

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“The Corner Store” is a Fred J. Ardath bucolic comedy skit, with Ardath and Allman programed as presenting it.  The set is a grocery store, with a widow running the place, her mischievous son tending store and creating the fun with his pranks. It’s a sort of “Peck’s Bad Boy” reset. There are the surefire rural characters, types, four men and three women. Toward the finish there is a painting bit that is a Chaplin and Keystone all in one for messy business.
It brought howls from the Royal audience Monday night and will be as certain before any similar audience.
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Variety 46:4 (03/23/1917)