In the words of the November 1913 reviewer in Theater Magazine,
This play is a novelty in many ways. And Channing Pollock comments
in The Green Book in December 1913, It is a play within a play
within a play, with the characters in each separate play laughing
at those in all the other plays. The amazingly ingenious scheme of
the piece suggests those wooden eggs, contained by one inside
another, that used to be imported from China. Seven Keys to
Baldpate is a play and a burlesque of that play synchronized. Its
authors deride the trashy melodrama, in melodrama, and then justify
melodrama by showing real life to be full of melodrama. Finally,
they justify themselves and defy criticism in a brilliant bit of
effrontery. Based on the novel of Earl Derr Biggers by the same
title, Seven Keys to Baldpate opened on September 22, 1913 at The
Astor Theater, in NYC, and has been revived and filmed many times
ever since.
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