An Heiress

The plot is more thickly moss covered than the venerable bucket that hung in the well. It concerns itself with the love affairs of an American heiress and a sleepy English nobleman. Tapa objects to the match, having arranged a marriage with daughter's consin, a rich ranchman. Daughter is rather taken with the prospect of marrying the cowboy relative and tells the nobleman as much. Whereupon nobleman impersonates cowboy, disgusts papa and daughter with his rowdy ways so that they never want to see another cowboy and thereby makes the way to daughter's heart and papa's check book easy. All of which involves the crudest sort of farce without a glimmer of humor, and has the additional disadvantage of showing the designing nobleman successful in his unworthy scheming.

The piece bores for ten minutes of opening dialogue excepting for a few bright flashes from Douglas, but its rough comedy helped to win it a hearing. They may be able to twist and re-shape the sketch into better form, but their energies would be much better spent in searching for a more suitable offering.

Variety 10:1 (10/05/1907)