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Dining room scene set.
Comic dialogue.
Vaudeville has had all sorts of pantomimic, "one-worded" spoken skits and talkative "novelties," but the latest to bid for approbation in the variety theatres in Chicago is that offered by Joan Storm and John Maurston. Throughout the entire sketch (a dining-room scene in the Hudson apartment) Mrs. Hudson (Miss Storm) does all the talking and goes from one domestic harangue to another, upbraiding her husband (Mr. Maurston) for coming home several hours late upon an anniversary which found Mrs. Hudson all dolled up and impatient for the dinner to begin. The husband gesticulates and expostulates pantomimically, but before he articulates a single word of English his wife spots one verbal censure after another. The wife finally listens to his alibi. He surprises her by bringing forth a string of pearls as a present. If an encore is forthcoming or any reasonable applause which there was at the Lincoln, the couple step forth in "one" and the man makes a little speech in which he cautions the women to be more prudent, inasmuch after the long spiel in taking hubby to task she may discover that he has a real alibi after all. Of course, Maurston continues, the husband must make sure he has a good alibi. The sketch is well presented and Miss Storm, a slender, titian-tressed actress, put considerable expression and force into her work as the petulant Mrs. Hudson.
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Variety, 41:3 (12/17/1915)