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The couple performed a sketch called “The Rube” which ran for twenty-eight minutes.
Jimmie Barry plays a country yokel who arrives at the stage door of Daizie Dazzleman (Mrs. Barry). He bets his friend Si Terwilliger that he can get a kiss from the starlet, which he does. The audience begins to feel sorry for Jimmie Barry’s character, who seems to fall in love with the married Daizie. He asks for one last kiss, which he again receives. Si bursts through the stage door and hands Barry’s character money exclaiming “You win, Zeke!”
The audience was deceived into feeling sorry for the "poor country boob", who was in on the bet all along.
"The idea is splendidly worked up by the Barrys."
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Variety Vol. 25:7 (01/20/1912)