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Bessie Deering (Miss Cohen) arrives at a lodging house ih New York prepared to marry a Dr. Smith (who is on the program, but does not appear) the next morning. Having a letter from her aunt in Stamford to the landlady, she is shown to the room of Arthur Bachelor (Mr. Rice), whom, the Landlady supposes, is on a health-seeking trip. Mr. Bachelor's physician is the same Dr. Smith, and it develops that the Doctor has advised Bachelor to travel for recovery from nervous prostration, with the injunction to the patient he must not think of marriage among many other things. Mr. Bachelor and Miss Deering are cousins, bethrothed by the will of a relative, and upon the marriage depends the possession of certain bequests left by the deceased. Bachelor returns to his apartment at about 1 a. m., discovering Miss Deering. From there on it is farce, with Bachelor dilating upon the state of his health, making youthful grimaces and love to his unknown cousin, counting the cost by the number of weeks or years tr.ken off his life, striving to keep his health up by numerous
Monday afternoon everything went wrong on the stage. In a number of important places some- thing happened to mar the smooth serenity of the playing, but with all that, comedy piece though it be, "A Bachelor's Wife" is not up to the Rice and Cohen mark. Any number of their former successes are much better.
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Variety 10:2 (10/12/1907)