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This sketch entitled “Cleopatra’s Needle” was fifteen minutes long.
Peggie Lennie is an English actress who teams up with American Walter Hast for some light comedy. Hast plays an English tourist lost in the tomb of Cleopatra thinking about the legend of her annual reappearance. Cleopatra then appears, but turns out to be his English sweetheart playing a joke on him. He pretends to be Marc Antony in return.
The stars handle the light comedy in an intelligent way and the travesty bits are funny. They should, however, cut down the singing in favor of more comedy. A big laugh at the finish would be more effective than the current duet. Hast has been in England long enough to acquire a slight English accent, which should be played up even more in the sketch. American audiences love it.
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Variety 28:10 (08/11/1912)