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Doris Wilson and her two sisters,
Alma and Dot, assisted by a man in
blackface (for a brief instant at the
close of the act)
a clever comedy opening, with two of the girls as middle aged maiden ladies in a small town. The elder decides everything about the house must be kept under cover and saved until such time as the youngest shall enter the matrimonial market. There is sufficient comedy in this section to pave the way for the entrance of the younger girl, who comes in with a grand hurrah, wearing a flock of up-to-the-minute clothes and doing a dance. The elder sisters awakened by the noise, return and the place undergoes a quick transformation from a period of decoration that had its vogue in the early '80s to a modern furnished apartment. All this is in preparation for the million-dollar bride-groom-to-be who is to call. The two"
elder girls then make a transformation
change to hold pace with the bridal
costume of sister. This is done with the aid of a trick cabinet up stage center and worked out most effectively.
The change completed all await the arrival of the expected one, each having
made up her mind to snare him if possible. But he turns out to be the unexpected — a dandy coon.
"Making Them Over."
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Variety 45:13 (02/23/1917)