Man of all Work

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This play is stated to be in three acts but is really divided into scenes only as staged above it is rather a mad farce. It centres around an invention, which is a figure shaped like a man, and capable of doing all kinds of things - shaving, giving a bath and so on. I assume it will be arranged by a real man disguised to look like a mechanical figure. One of the scenes is a boxing match at a music hall, in which the figure runs amuck and knocks everybody down. The inventor, Burgoosky, is in love with the daughter, Stella, of one Brookes, and Brookes with Burgoosky’s aunt, Sophia. Trouble is made by a Mormon seeking converts, between the two latter, and by a dancer between the others - owing to Stella’s thinking a note meant of Mr Brooks is for Burgoosky - and of course these affairs come right. But the real business - apparent from the boxing - is when Brooks, being curious, goes to Gurgoosky’s house and gets entangled with another mechanical man, which then performs all sorts of tricks, putting a policeman into a bath, and so forth, until it is exploded by a bomb, meant by a comic German who pervades the piece, for Burgoosky. It seems to be all harmless fooling and I dare say will be amusing in its efforts. Recommended for license. G. S. Street