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This comedic sketch entitled “A Regular Business Man” was twenty minutes long.
Douglas Fairbanks, in his first vaudeville show, plays a young lawyer who is engaged to his “pretty stenographer” played by Jean Murdoch. She is about to leave him because of his neglect of her and the business. He eventually secures a wealthy client and $50 000 owed to him by his uncle.
There was a "great volume of applause" for the sketch.
Jean Murdoch plays an "excellent foil for Mr Fairbanks' airiness." The sketch was well acted and amusing. Fairbanks is also "...one of the best light comedians who ever played in vaudeville."
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Variety Vol. 25:12 (02/24/1912)