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In a comedy-dramatic
sketch. "Miss Thanksgiving." It opens
with two men coming home soused and carrying
a basket they found on the doorstep. After
ten minutes of clever talk on eugenics and
other philosophizing, all In a humorous vein,
they find there's a baby In the basket, and
one of the men declares he will adopt the
child. It develops he married a burlesque
actress, but they separated six months previously.
The wife comes in later to claim the
child, after having abandoned It, and there
is a reconciliation, with even the dramatics
carried but humorously.
The two men' are
clever actors and the woman will pass for the
little she Is called upon to contribute.
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Variety 46:3 (03/16/1917)