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Julian Dayton has a clever little sketch. It is a good laugh-maker and, with a little girl who plays the wife, cannot help but go along. Dayton is a hard-to-please husband who has a wife slaving for him. Across the airshaft is a woman who has had a great deal of experience in matrimony. She tells the wife not to let her husband walk all over her. When George (the husband) pulls in on this specific evening, he is out of sorts. Wifey wants to go to the opera. Husband finds fault with everything. It is the maid’s day out, and things do not run smoothly. The wife finally prevails upon him to put on his evening clothes for dinner, but does not tell him about the opera. George returns in the glad rags and finds fault with the wife’s cooking. He becomes enraged (the house. It is raining. He returns. The wife thinks it is her twin. She throws dishes around and surprises her spouse, following the instructions of her friend across the court. George is buffaloed. Then she springs the opera thing, and off they go. The second woman has little to do. The wife is acceptably done, some real laughs coming from her interpretation of an angry woman. Mr. Dayton is a fair husband, but owes the success of the sketch to his side partner.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.3, September 18, 1914