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This sketch entitled “Quits”, written by Hall McAllister, was sixteen minutes long.
In this playlet, a wealthy man married a woman who insisted she had been wronged by another man in the past. The husband meets an actor (played by Wilton Lackaye) and invites him to dinner. When the wife hears his name, she insists that he was the blackguard from her past. The husband vows to disfigure him. When the actor comes over, the wife pleads with him not to reveal her adventuring ways because she will inherit her husband’s fortune one day. The husband finds out, and he and the man play a trick on the wife to get her to reveal her true identity as a gold-digger.
"At the conclusion he [Lackaye] was greeted by thunderous applause and throughout the audience was heard calls for a speech."
Lackaye was superb as the actor. "But never once, in the role of the actor, did he raise his voice, at the same time sending across the footlights a feeling of power and strength that was gripping in its intensity." E. Kingdon as the husband was adequate and Miss Lorimer as the wife was excellent. The sketch will likely remain in vaudeville indefinitely.
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Variety 26:8 (27/04/1912)