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This sketch entitled “A Doctored Widow” was fourteen minutes long.
The backdrop is a lounge of a steamship. Peggy Gordon (Irene H. Gurney) is a seasick widow and Bill Dunstin (Tom Kyle) is a bachelor who plays along when she mistakes him for a doctor. A “colored cabin boy called ‘Texas'” almost tells her Dunstin’s secret, but Dunstin prevents it with a pie to his face. For the finale, the widow agrees to marry the “doctor”.
The sketch does not have enough substance to push it beyond the small big time. Gurney's acting was "of a questionable quality".
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Variety 28:8 (25/10/1912)