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This sketch entitled “The Sheriff of Shasta” was thirty minutes long on the full stage.
Theodore Roberts, a legitimate star, plays a man with a cabin on the Shasta Ridge. His wife does not love him and resents the isolation of the location. She soon falls in love with a travelling acrobat who recently murdered a man. The Sheriff is close to finding him. When she hears the Sheriff approaching her barn, she hides the acrobat in the hay loft. The Sheriff proceeds to tell the wife of her charms, making her husband jealous. When she and the acrobat try to elope the next day, the acrobat is killed by one of the Sheriff’s men and the wife is brought back to her husband.
Roberts was excellent, and provoked small outbursts of applause throughout the performance.
"Roberts is carrying excellent company and has stage the offering so that a reason is offered for everything." Roberts does not just rely on his excellent reputation, but instead provides vaudeville with the best melodramatic sketch it has seen all season.
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Variety 26:6 (13/04/1912)