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1C «* Ol IV I L III till NVJk.il. a face and nose that look tike a-beacon light he feels that it-Js up to him to jconcost a scheme whereby she' Will j marry him.“IVhile lie is in the inn. the loidy having gone* upstairs, a retired soldier enters. The soldier is ’‘Ned Travers, ;tlie. part being taken by Percy Waram, land inasmuch as the man is down on [his luck the ex-salior decides to in-jduce him lo assist in the scheme.] VjC.nv borrows two pounds from lhe mistress of the house and .gives it jtu-the ex-soldier provided the latter I will enter the house at night and I thrpflion to rob and murder ‘'Mrs, Wa-j ters. While the make-believe st.mg-jgle is going on between the man‘and ; woman the ex-sailor is to rush into fthc honflt;c and play the part of the hero and then, according lo his version, she will marry him for his bravo act.-But like everything else the best laid plans of mice and men aft gang aglay, and it proved to be so in this lease, for the ex-soldier after stealing I into the building makes* such a rack-! ut that he awakens the .woman of the house and she rushes down stairs with a shot gun. In ord-gr .to avoid her he Senters a closet but she finds him, and when she threatens to shoot he discloses the plot. In order to teach the ex-sailor a lesson sh-e makes it up with the. ex-soldier to work a scheme where-] by they are to give the ex-sailor a ; fright. She pretends she has killed j the ex-soldier and the boatswain is frightened out of several years growth^The climax of the piec-s is that tlie ex-sol diet* wins the landlady and the ex-sailor is in a quandary as to how the matter was.brought about..One of the most laughable acts in vaudeville today is the knock]* bout acrobatic work of the Three Keatons. Their funny work keeps the audience convulsed with laughter from the time they make their initial appearance until the end of the act. Besides being clcvcr acrobats^thoy do knockabout work which keeps the audience wondering if^ one of them t will not bo killed. The father and sou are exceedingly clever but the manner in
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Lowell Sun
Lowell, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Dec 06, 1910
Page 24
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