“Room 806”

Dialogue.

Said to have been played on big time with a different cast and under a different title. The billing credits Freind, Light, Green and Co. as the players, the "company" being a colored youth, whose heavy part is to make several entrances with drinks and ice water and collect tips. The playlet has a triple climax, the plot unfolding a blackmail yarn. Man arrives from the West. Woman enters from another room, escaping someone, but afraid her husband will discover her in the hotel. Supposed husband enters. Woman makes known her presence and there is a scene between the men. The party from the West agrees to pay the husband $25,000 to protect the woman. He exists to get the cash. Man and supposed wife laugh, saying their trick worked well. The Westerner enters and confronts the pair, saying he is a secret service man and will "run them in"; but he, too, has his price, and the phony husband exits to get his bankroll. Woman then exposes the Westerner, whom she shows is wanted in Chicago. Husband comes back, Woman explains Westerner is also a crook, and they should combine. The men shake hands, and the woman slips the handcuffs on both wrists, she turning out to be a real secret service operative. As sketches go on the three-a-day "Room 806" will do, for it has action and gets away from the expose of matrimonial trouble that nearly all pop playlets seem to hinge upon.

Variety, 53:10 (01/31/1919)