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"Betty's Bet" was written by Maud Tariton Winchester. The scene is set at a law office at a late hour of a Saturday afternoon. Betty bets her brother $100 that she can secure a position as a stenographer and hold it for a week. She is hired and the law office submits to her idiosyncrasies for the period. She transforms the office into a parlor, running things to suit herself. She wins her bet, resigning just as the week elapses.
Miss O'Day's banjo playing evoked applause.
The sketch is incoherent and irrelevant, but pleases because of its absurdities and nonsensicalities.
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Variety 24:9 (11/04/1911)