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The story is simple but somewhat new and refreshing for vaudeville. Two brothers are there. One is a wild fellow, the other a nice boy. There is the one mistake of the piece. The author has tied the lively American girl to the “nice boy.” But that makes the story. The wild fellow finds a baby left on the doorstep and pins a note to it saying that it belongs to the nice fellow.
His American Girl.
The discovery of the baby leads to big laugh.
There are extremely funny lines in the little farce, many bringing laughs of the rocking variety.
The mistake lies entirely in the character of the nice boy, Lawrence Gratton plays the role as a stupid English Johnny. He is just as true and convincing in the role as an Englishman is when playing an American villain in one of those English melodramatic sketches. That is about the worst you can of anything.
The running time could be cut by three or four minutes.
The act will do as it is, but could be made much more satisfactory with a few changes.
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Variety 29: 13 (September 3, 1910)