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This sketch entitled “Betty’s Bet” (written by Maud Tarlton Winchester) was twenty-one minutes long on the full stage.
A girl named Betty (Ida O’Day) makes a bet with her friend that she can work an entire week in a law office. She has decorated the place with pink ribbons. The senior member of the firm threatens to quit if she is not fired by the end of the week. Through the aid of a mischievous office boy (John Hines), Betty is able to stall and win the bet. O’Day inexplicably plays the banjo halfway through the sketch.
O'Day is pretty and plays her part excellently. Jones Hines should be given more to do as the office boy because he could certainly handle it. The play is weak in its current form because there is a lack of comic action. The banjo part sends the sketch immediately down into the small time.
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Variety 26:11 (18/05/1912)