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Briefly the story is this: Jeremiah Thurston (Bradlee Martin) wants his son (John Bowers) to marry Jessie Martin (Jessie Courtney). The son loves the girl, but doesn't know it and holds back. The girl loves him and knows it beyond peradventure of a doubt. To bring Jack to his senses the girl tricks the old man into a proposal of marriage and accepts Thurston, Sr., to his son's amazement and horror. Then she fright- ens the old man into releasing her from her engagement by the display of a violent temper, and the young pair become engaged while the aged victim of the conspiracy settles a $40,000 income upon them. But the objectionable feature is Martin's idea of the father, of whom he makes a pitiful creature, whose glaring characteristic is unmitigated imbecility. The attitude of the two young people to- ward the elder in making him the victim of a blackmail plot is .not particularly edifying, even for farcical purposes, although a father of as little dignity or brain tissue as the one Bradlee Martin dragged upon the stage by his poor, gray hair, deserv
The three make up a capable trio, worthy of a better cause, but the sketch—O no. It remains to be seen whether other vaudeville audiences will accept the offering as easily as did the Harlem clientele.
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Variety 10:3 (10/19/1907)