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This sketch entitled “The College Coach” was thirteen minutes long.
Tom Nawn plays a father who turns his daughter out of the house for wanting to become an actress. The girl’s mother suggests she try to convince him of her acting ability by dressing as an elderly woman. The daughter meets her father as the old woman and then returns moments later as herself to beg her mother to let her come home. Her mother has conspired to refuse her so that her father will feel sympathy for her. He does, and is shocked to learn that the elderly woman he met earlier was actually his daughter.
"It is asking the audience to stretch its imagination considerably to believe that a father would not recognize his own daughter disguised with a gray wig and dressed as an elderly woman." All parts were played well, but Nawn acts more like a feeder for the role of the daughter than the star of the sketch. The idea for the sketch is an old one.
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Variety 28:5 (04/10/1912)