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The visual details of act are truly wonderful. At the opening the stage is in semi-darkness until Miss Bradley (Ruth Allen), the head nurse, raises a window shade. The atmosphere is entirely that of a hospital.
"The Baby" - The scene is set in the receiving room of a Municipal Foundling Asylum. A phone rings and Miss Bradley answers, laying out the rules of the hospital. Dr. James O'Reilly (John Stokes, also the author) enters. The doctor has just recently had his first child, a son. The doctor tells the nurse she should have one of her own, she declines saying that with her luck she would have twins. Lena Vogle (Emma Dunn) enters carrying a baby. Believing her husband has left her, and with no means of support, she signs over her child to the institution and leaves. Moments later she returns with her husband (Chas. Hepler), his disappearance explained. It is illegal to return the child but fortunately the doctor, remembering his own son, has a change of heart.
"'The Baby' will go down into vaudeville history as one of the most charming little playlets of that most hackneyed of subjects, the motherlove." All four actors are capable and portray their characters well. They are nothing less than artists.
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Variety 21:8 (01/28/1911)