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18 min. full stage – These people were making their debut here and presented a new, comedy sketch entitled “A Friend in Need”. There are two men and a woman, and they are all fair actors. The piece is another twist of the mistaken identity idea, and is very amusing in dialogue and situations, although there are one or two points at which it drags a little. The two men come home to the residence of one of them, both in a semi-intoxicated condition, and the woman gets hold of her husband’s friend, and then the fun begins in earnest. It went well here, and I can see where it will make an ever bigger laughing hit in other cities.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 2 September 1902-3 September 1903