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“The Prodigal Father.” 1
23d St.
Lew is a member of the Welch family and also a Hebrew character comedian. For vaudeville he has a three-people sketch built on a far-fetched theme. The curtain rises on a lawyer’s office with a mother reading about father’s exploits with chorus girls after her son, a lawyer, had secured a divorce for her. She decides she wants him back, but the son opposes. Welch enters and mother hides in an adjoining room. He too, is ready to make up, and the comedy is derived from his dialog with his son, who adopts a superior air. The well beaten trails are adhered to with Welch getting laughs from some Indifferent material by his handling of the dialog and character.
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Variety, LXI:12, February 11, 1921.