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Singing.
"The Married Ladies' Club."
The most commendable thing about "The Married Ladies' Club" is that while the story is told entirely in musical form (not even recitative) every word uttered by the five women is intelligible. This is so novel and unusual as to call for special praise. Five women are spending an evening at the home of one while their husbands are at the home of another. They tell in song of their "troubles," when one sings "Mary, tell us what to do." "Let's have an evening spent in song." They make a feature of "Monterey" well harmonized by good voices. Lyrics of act by Jean Havez, music by George Botsford. At finish the husbands phone for the wives to come back, as they are yearning for domestic bliss. For encore they do a medley in "one." Pretty little, clean story, but is more of a concert turn than a vaudeville act through absence of action.
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Variety, 41:5 (12/31/1915)