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Dialogue.
The supposed vogue of bed room farces on Broadway may have been responsible for this one. Bride and groom are about finishing their honeymoon. Wifie is in a nightie but seated,
telling herself what prize she wed. The prize is asleep in a single bed, the other twin being nowhere visible. The groom starts talking in his sleep, first saying things that proved to the bride that her man was a gambler. Further remarks from the sheets mentioned a woman in tights, wine and such. Wifie thinking she had married a rounder wakes him up and a squabble starts. Finally he telephones for a doctor and the hotel shoots a lady house physician into action. The latter is anything but soothing in curl papers. In domineering way she makes the "two kids," as she constantly calls the couple, see that they are foolish. That the bride admits, after the man says his remarks were the plot of a story he was writing. There is a castor-pill finish, the lady doctor entrancing again when the "two kids" restart fighting and saying she is going to give them both a dose. The act is badly written. It ran twelve minutes, but seemed to take twenty. Maybe it will get time because of a sketch shortage. The title appears to have been copied from a farce called "She Walked In Her Sleep." No other semblance.
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Variety, 54:7 (04/11/1919)