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‘Kit.’ 25 min, FS, 2 shows. On at 9.09. Without Miss Spong’s brilliant work in this sketch, I do not think that the audience would care for it. It is the simple story of a Western girl who is about to marry the sheriff of the frontier county where he father is a magistrate. Unbeknown to her, her father has turned train-robber. After a hold-up he returns home and compels his daughter to hide his hat, mask and himself from the sheriff. When the latter, he fiancée, appears she lies to him, but does not succeed in shielding her father. The sheriff discovers him and insists upon taking him, but before he does so, the girl proposes that the father marry them, which, as Justice of the Peace, he has the right to do. The ring is missing, and the girl suggests the pair of handcuffs as a substitute. She locks herself to the bridegroom, throws away the key, and the sheriff’s revolver, then orders her father to ‘run like hell,’ There are two false notes: the girl’s persistent lying totthe [sic] man she loves, and then defeating the ends of the justice, even if it be her father who is the guilty one Miss Spong’s strong dramatic work wins the house over all inconsistencies of playwright’s work. Close was big, with five curtain calls.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 23 September 1907-12 March 1908