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This sketch entitled “The Concealed Bed” was thirty minutes long on the full stage.
This sketch is about a Scottish man and woman who are to be married. The company is made up of Scottish actors. The man has promised the woman that he will join the “Teetotalers”, but goes out for a night of drinking with the woman’s brother. When the woman and her mother come back the next day, they find her brother sleeping and her betrothed sleeping in a bed concealed in a closet. More comedy is injected into the sketch by the inclusion of a gossiping woman, who knows everything about everyone in the tenement. She is evicted by the end.
Andrew Clyde as the son did some particularly good work. The rest of the cast handled their parts well. The skit needs more action, however, because it tends to lag in spots. The average vaudeville audience will like it, but it will likely not return. It did fairly well at the Palace.
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Variety 26:7 (20/04/1912)