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This sketch entitled “The Yellow Peril” was twenty-six minutes long.
Nina Morris plays an American secret agent who attempts to get Japanese agent Jakusha to admit his plans to invade the fleet in San Francisco. The setting is a parlour. Screens around the stage show moving pictures of the action that is happening offstage. Jakusha is eventually lured into the parlour by Morris and her fellow agents and she records his confession on a dictaphone behind his back. The moving pictures show Jakusha’s secretary being apprehended in the street outside his apartment.
Nina Morris, Mr. Gerald as agent Deegan, and Mr. Herschberg as Jakusha did superb work. The addition of the moving pictures was unique and well done. This sketch will do well on the big time.
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Variety 28:2 (13/09/1912)