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This sketch entitled “The German Invasion” was eighteen minutes long.
A young couple begins to move into the house that the man’s father bought for them. The father (played by Tom Barry) is in “Dutchman” makeup and tells the son to assert his authority over his wife. The wife overhears and begins to pack to return home to her parents. Her husband is horrified and both of them cast away the father and his meddling ways .
Barry's dialect as the Dutchman is poor, but the boy is effective and the girl is adequate. "Situations are funny enough to make it a good big small time turn."
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Variety 28:7 (18/10/1912)