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This one-man pantomime entitled “A Lesson in Temperance” was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
Billie Reeves plays his original “Drunk” character dressed in evening clothes covered by a topcoat and a grey mustache. He exits a “booze parlour” and attempts to make his way home. He has a duck in his pocket which squawks repeatedly. When he attempts to lean on a lamp post, it immediately jumps away from him. The keyhole of his front door will also not stay put. When he gets inside, many trick props revolve and move around the room (likely moved by incognito stage hands).
"Closing the show at the Fifth Avenue, the act did not lose a customer."
This act is original in its comedy and the moving props are guaranteed to get a lot of laughs. Reeves does not play his part with as much falling down as he used to, but that does not affect the comedy of the character at all.
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Variety 28:6 (11/10/1912)