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This sketch entitled “What the Doctor Ordered” was twenty-one minutes long.
The plots revolves around a “family scrap”. The setting is a parlour. Fanny Ward plays the main character and Mrs. Stanhope Wheaton and Harry Dodd play the elderly parts.
Ward, Wheaton, and Dodd play their roles well, but the plot is very light. Some of the lines with glean smiles from the audience, but not laughter. The notoriety of Fanny Ward's name will keep this comedy afloat, but they should not ask too much money to perform it or else it may lose the headline position on big bills.
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Variety 26:4 (30/03/1912)