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"Bottle 6-40-9." - The wife buys a bottle of wine, which instills her husband,a German who occasionally plays cards and drinks booze, the power of admission. He tells her all about his card playing and drinking. The husband then slips the wife some of the "truth juice" and she talks her head off. There is also a mother-in-law who drinks some as well.
As long as husbands continue to tell their wives lies and the stage continues to make people tell the truth, works such as this will continue to exist. A few years ago, when clever lines were not needed, this sketch would have done quite well. Things have changed and the plot must have help from the dialogue. Frank Rae does well enough as the German, as does Augusta Brosche as the wife. Will M. Cressy must not have written this sketch with the "big time" audiences in mind.
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Variety 22:2 (03/18/1911)