“there is action to out action vaudeville” but “legitimate comedy” not slapstick. Skit about a man who suspects his friend is impersonating his stepmother to play a trick on him. He “commits assault and battery upon the real step mother under the impression that she is a masquerader”
Fiske plays a “tough”; Miss McDonough is “horribly affected as the society matron”; she is “entirely off-key”
the 6 sisters do Chinese dances and finish with a Hungarian dance “entirely devoid of the fire and abandon that are the chiefest charms of this style of dance.”
set at the beach in Atlantic City. Miss Fuller (playing Rose Tracey) checks into a hotel. She wants to have a swim but is worried about a young man who has “made eyes” at her. She decides to go to the beach with a dummy placed in a chair and wheeled to the beach who she says is her father. Hallen (playing an author, Reddy Merrick) follows her to the beach and starts talking to the dummy. Fuller appears in a bathing suit (“Molly Fuller in tights! It is a sight, and a pleasant one”. Hallen sends the dummy back to the hotel and takes its place. Fuller confesses her love of the author Merrick. As the curtain falls, they are “entwined after a thirty minute acquaintance”
Miss Taylor “is unable to show to advantage under the soft colored light”
