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A drawing room, in which a man lies dying after supposedly taking poison, and his wife makes funeral arrangements on the phone.
"Dr. Brown"
"laughed rather shamefacedly at some of the points involving funeral arrangements".
The fun of the sketch comes from the "wretched taste" of much of the humor.
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Variety, vol. 32: 10. 7 Nov. 1913