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She has a splendid voice and was the most graceful and quiet member of the cast. Will Foran takes his cue from Devoy, and plays with the delicacy of a calliope. The noise, however, caught the upstairs portion of the house and the sketch closed with a fair amount of applause.
The principals overplay at many points and Devoy himself is all noise and clowning. Hermine Shone, as the daughter of Venus, who appears before the egotist Hammond to teach him a lesson in humil- ity, a la "The Messenger From Mars," is a stunning "spook" and makes the reading of her lines a real delight.
Its comedy is childish and whatever interest the trifling plot might carry is lost in the sea of dialogue and uninteresting farcical in students. The playlet runs at least eight minutes before the story gets a real be ginning and even after that the narrative is interrupted at frequent intervals for the introduction of detached "comedy business.
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Variety 10:2 (10/12/1907)