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This farcical sketch was twenty-four minutes long.
Three women and three men who are all good looking play a farce with many entrances and exits. At one point in the sketch, the men drink poison one at a time. It is soon revealed to be a sleeping powder administered by the women, rather than a deadly poison.
There is not enough time in the sketch to adequately explain why the women made the men believe they were drinking poison in the first place. "For the small time the sketch might do, but how six healthy people can eat three daily with regularity out of the salary this turn can command in the smaller houses is another farcical complication to be worked out, and it shouldn't require twenty-four minutes either."
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Variety Vol. 25:11 (02/17/1912)