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This sketch entitled “Honor is Satisfied” was seventeen minutes long.
The plots concerns a man who returns home after a year’s absence to find his wife eating dinner at the home of his best friend. The man concludes that to save the family’s honour, one of them must die. They draw lots and the friend comes up short. He attempts to shoot himself with a revolver, but misses. The man then agrees to die instead. Before he can shoot himself, however, his wife clings to him and insists that she is innocent and loves him and no one has to die. The man agrees and gives his friend the empty revolver as a souvenir of his scorn. He then takes his wife home.
Without Abingdon, there would be no sketch at all. He is a consummate actor. Louis Thomas needs to give a more intense performance as the friend or the producers should find someone else who can. Fay Browning is adequate as the wife. Managers should, when booking the sketch, demand only the Abingdon version.
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Variety 26:4 (30/03/1912)