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Comic dialogue.
George Drury Hart is from the legitimate. He has secured, for vaudeville, an exceptionally well balanced company of three players in support, led by an appealing ingenue. Mr. Hart
himself as a light comedian in this playlet is of no mean value, and together with the skit itself, they appear to have a big time comedy playlet. A clubman clambers into the rooms of
a young woman in a boarding house, from the fire escape. After his explanation he is escaping from a taxi driver he bruised through demanding an exorbitant fare, the landlady appears and demands her overdue room rent for six weeks. A cop also comes in to arrest the clubman for assault upon the driver. The clubman to escape arrest tries to have the young
girl admit he is her husband. This she is reluctant to do. but finally kisses him in partial proof, later denying he is her husband but professing a fondness for him. Whereupon the club- man dismisses the cop, who is his valet, confesses to the girl he made the entire arrangement to meet and win her, and the piece ends with a laugh. It is the company rather than the sketch that wins out; though the "surprise" of the climax has some comedy value.
The landlady is a faithful study and the policeman is well done, the whole comprising something of an extraordinary group to seek a showing in a small time theatre.
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Variety, 54:1 (02/28/1919)