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Dayton plays a hard-to-please husband who has a wife slaving for him. Across the air-shaft a woman who has a great deal of experience in matrimony tells the wife not to let her husband walk all over her. When George (the husband) pulls into the drive he is out of sorts. The wife wants to go to the opera. The husband finds fault with everything. It is the maid's day out and things do not run smoothly. The wife finally convinces her husband to put on his evening clothes for dinner, but does not inform him of the opera. He finds fault in his wife's cooking. Enraged (the peas had no salt), the leaves the house. It is raining so he returns. As per the instructions of her friend, the wife throws dishes around, surprising her spouse. She springs the opera plan on him and off they go.
This is a clever sketch and the little girl who plays the wife is a good laugh-maker. Dayton is a fair husband, but owes the success of the sketch to his side partner.
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Variety 36:3 (09/18/1914)