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This sketch entitled “The Man From the Metropole” was nineteen minutes long.
Tom Lewis plays a former waiter at the Metropole who has been engaged to work in a private household. Both the husband and wife of said household (played by Burrell Barbaretto and Bessie Skeer respectively) have had embarrassing episodes which occurred at the Metropole, so they each try to flatter him into silence. They then find out he actually knows nothing about either of them. The sketch ends with Lewis putting on his hat and walking out.
As an encore, Lewis performs a monologue in his typical style of never finishing a sentence.
The sketch did not seem ready enough for the stage. Lewis is an intense favourite in New York vaudeville, however, so audiences will accept him in whatever sketch he chooses to perform.
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Variety 26:6 (13/04/1912)