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Comic dialogue.
"A Golf Proposal."
Jack Kennedy, farceuer of parts, is back with something that is good and is modern. The skit is described, as a comedy of the golf links and it is that. Golf is attracting so many new devotees that link terms are no longer foreign to the average layman. The setting depicts the 18th hole of a golf course and just prior to entrance, "fore" is called and golf balls (celluloid) bound onto the green. During the action a real golf ball is bounced on the stage and presumably teed off and driven into the orchestra. But a celluloid pellet is substituted and so it makes a puny, harmless flight for. about ten rows but the trick fooled the house. Kennedy made the "drive" and showed that he was "there" by smashing the ball on the first try. He plays a middle aged judge who is in love with the widowed Mrs. Walsh and has been for ten years. Every time he tries to propose he verbally trips and gets in bad by mentioning the widow's former consort. She has a daughter who spoils mother's idea of things by marrying a youth and she decides that the judge can easily arrange an Annulment. But the youth takes care of his own affairs by "fixing" the judge. The latter agrees to help the young couple and never do
anything that will separate them in return for a lesson/in proposing. And since the old boy profits by the lesson and wins the hand of the widow, everything turns out as it should be. Mr. Kennedy is capital as the stumbling old wooer and it is his business and playing that really carries the turn. He secures laughs easily and makes of the judge one of his best roles. The support isn't all that could be desired but the players are natural. Mr. Kennedy may have trouble in cutting the running time, but in so doing more power may be lent "A Golf Proposal."
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Variety, 54:10 (05/02/1919)