“Too Much Married”

Singing and musical comedy.

"Too Much Married" is a pretentious sort of musical tab, that starts off like the conventional burlesque show and ends nowhere.! There is a chorus of eight likely looking girls disclosed to view at the opening, the drop raising about to the top of the girls' heads as the act starts and later being elevated the full distance. The suggested novelty of the opening never materializes. After a noisy opening number, the principals saunter on and after a while the audience is informed a young man in order to collect a ton of money must pretend he is married. It's a maiden aunt who must be fooled. The youth bungles things by getting a couple of wives to do the trick. Even a musical tab could stand a more convincing plot than that. There are some six numbers, not one of which rises above mediocrity in idea lyrics, or melody. Billy Gaston is the youth who is supposed to acquire the wife with which to trick auntie into slipping him the coin. Gaston seems to be miscast or something, as he never gets started. Ethel Corcoran makes a pretty ingenue, singing acceptably and dancing well enough to pass. The numbers are costumed elaborately. It looks as if some one has been set back for several thousands on the costumes of the chorus alone. A special set, with Urbanesque characteristics is employed and helps more than a little. In its present shape the act is impossible for anything but the smaller houses and it wouldn't cause any great excitement there. The turn needs comedy very badly and a low comedian with a good knowledge of vaudeville comedy values might be added to the cast, as an experiment at any rate.

Variety, 54:9 (04/25/1919)