Hubert Wilkie and Co.

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This sketch entitled “My Sunshine” was fifteen minutes long. A young couple are getting ready for the day in their country home when an old Italian man enters singing “Sola Mio”. The man tells them that he and his brother loved the same woman. The man married the woman and they had a child, whom his brother stole out of revenge. The child’s mother then died of a broken heart. The child’s uncle raised him to believe that his father deserted his wife and young son. It is revealed that the young man listening to this tale with his wife is that same child. He heaps abuse onto the father he thinks abandoned him. In the end, he realizes that what the Italian man said was true and embraces him as his long lost father. The father concludes with an emotional rendition of the “Sola Mio” ballad.

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