This travesty sketch was seventeen minutes long on the full stage.
Two tramps stumble onto a “private theatrical” thrown by a society woman at her home and are put to work. “All three go through a burlesque scene from ‘Nero,’ made of up a series of old ‘gags'”. The finale is a grand opera burlesque.
This sketch entitled “Quits”, written by Hall McAllister, was sixteen minutes long.
In this playlet, a wealthy man married a woman who insisted she had been wronged by another man in the past. The husband meets an actor (played by Wilton Lackaye) and invites him to dinner. When the wife hears his name, she insists that he was the blackguard from her past. The husband vows to disfigure him. When the actor comes over, the wife pleads with him not to reveal her adventuring ways because she will inherit her husband’s fortune one day. The husband finds out, and he and the man play a trick on the wife to get her to reveal her true identity as a gold-digger.
Barnell sketches upside down.
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.
Two young men play songs on banjos.
This sketch entitled “A Woman of the Streets” was sixteen minutes long. The sketch was adapted by Fred F. Schrader.
A French woman (Nellie Elting) and her lover are brought before a magistrate (O’Rourke). She has had a distrust for the law ever since her mother was betrayed by an official and she herself was forced to live on the street. She wears her mother’s engagement ring on her finger. It is revealed that the magistrate is actually her estranged father, who offers to buy the ring in exchange for her silence. She refuses and a violent scuffle ensues in which the magistrate rips the ring from her finger. She leaves in a rage. He then kisses the ring and dismisses the case against her and her lover.
