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In a new comedy sketch, “In the Rain”. This sketch opens with a very realistic rain storm, of real water, seen through the windows of a drawing-room, which is the set of the act. A lot of thunder and lightning before the curtain and during the first part of the act gives it atmosphere and as the rain is kept up and is seen by the audience during the first five minutes of the sketch it is something of a novelty. The theme is a bachelor about to go out to a dinner, reads of a lady burglar who has been robbing houses in this country neighborhood, and seeing a lady on the porch taking refuge from the rain, mistakes her for the burglar. They are both friends of some people they are to later meet at a reception and a lot of funny situations arise, especially after the lady, in order to guy the bachelor, pretends to really be a burglar. The act went very well with today’s audience here, but as Miss Leigh and Company are going to play it at the Fifth Avenue next Sunday, in order to show it to the various managers and agents, I would prefer not to give a strong opinion on the act. I would suggest that it will be worth while for the various booking agents to see the act next Sunday.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 25 October 1909-30 May 1910