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This sketch entitled “The Trained Nurse” stars Gladys Clark and Henry Bergman, who previously had their own act.
Clark stars as a nurse and Bergman plays a perfectly healthy man who goes to the hospital because he is in love with that nurse. She agrees to marry him and they do five songs in total, flanked by ten chorus girls. Clark does a number in which the chorus girls walk across the stage dressed as the type of girls Bergman liked. They also do a lisping and stuttering number. The finish is a comic opera number.
"Humpty Dumpty"; "It Can't Be True"; "The Dancing Wedding"
The act received many curtain calls.
The sketch will be a big hit by virtue of the talent of Clark and Bergman. They do, however, need a more lively finale. Anna Miller as the other nurse does well in a whistling number. Harry Dodd as the doctor does not have a chance to do much comedy, but his sideburns are funny enough. Clark and Bergman should be wary of this sketch, however, because its name will get the credit, rather than Clark and Bergman themselves.
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Variety 28:3 (20/09/1912)