The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-16
A SOUND BEACH FIRST NIGHT
SOVE CONEJ SION ABOIT MAYOR
SiHNIS'S DEBIT.
Hiou Get the Idea That the Real Drama
Was n the Mud and Not on the stage. 80
Nucb the Wors-. " Anything Gould ne
Worse Midsummer Nights Nightmare.

Worse Midsummer NIght's Nightmare.
lp ,rler TO help raiae much needed town
tal- lor a munich atty that is nigh unto
fpslri. the Hon. George Washington Sam
re. Mayor 81 Sound Beach. presented him
eol irr the first and last time on any stage
Msr night through the courtesy Of Mr.. Jake
Sruucrt, His Homo the Mayor played the
rar, of handsome Harry MOntmorenci. a
fl.hopdbic Detsckdtf, and the audience
ros" 70 him rs one mar and three women.
~" rlayet was classification" and was
written by Mrs. Sammis. his Honor's wife.
p, the American or Sound Beach run OF
ttrty-cight consecutive minutes at the
Sound Beach By-heck schoolhouse. Mrs.
Sammis supported Mayor Sammis while
tIo Mayor was supporting Sound Beach
las evening, As Mrs. Sammi is the Emily
MAYNARD who appeared in 50 many Froh=
man productions it might as well be said
right now that the Mayors wife was the
la'ter half Of the sketch in more ways than
ono.
Tor if ever there was a bad actor il is
Mayor George Sammis Of Sound Beach.
Many Of the audience said last night to the
cher woman across the aisle hat even
Sound Beach never had seen a worse case
q Stage fright than the Mayors when. in
ITO middle of the sketch. he got so balled up
that he tried to put the package of property
ilrdsoed into the cuckoo clock at back stage
rri then went over to the canary bird cage
anI tried to wind IL. When the boys who
R,c working of conditions in the summer
schools Of Ned Wayburn's College of vaude-
vile hear that there'll be much laughter all
over the campus.
L. boil L.. axRl - L., ~ -. A..
those who never have seen "Mystifica-
tpn"-and there are man. such-that the
l.risced was for the canary and the wind
ms should nave been devoted to the cuckoo
clock. Both these bits OF stage business
hear importantly upon the working of
tho plot. because after they have been lone
handsome Harry Montmorenci deduoes
things from them that enable him to solve
he Mystery. like Sherlock Holmes. But
once the error had been made the only
thing left for the DeteckatI TO do there
after was TO compare his watch with the
hour and minute hands of the canary.
And when the skit reached the point where
wight is supposed TO begin to fall. and hand
some Harry walks softly toward the canary
to shield the pretty bird from the prop
cr'y rod light of the open fireplace by cover
ing the cage with a piece of muslin. the
Mayor, to he consistent, had to climb on a
chair and cover the clock instead.
Sleep. my pretty one" said Harry. soft
sni slow, to the clock. It's the big scene
n the show would to God tina /. too,
might place a downy wing about my throb-
hing head and sleep. sleep. Tries to
place head under left arm. stands on left
Log Business. But there will be no
sleep for Harry Mon,morenci I nave
other work to do tonight! lGlances
hastily AZ bird cage Heavens It's q
O'Clock ~
observation-disclosures - cuckoo
cuckoo cuckoo = cuckoo = cuckoo = cuckoo
rGr~koo-cuckoo'" That makes twelve
Clckoos in all. but the entire audience had
come not to criticise but TO help raise money
70 r~enictcl Chief of Po-leece Ad Palmer's
non star and buy some new red shirts for
the Sou nd Beach H-Two-O Volunteer Fire
Hero Company and coal for the school
house against the coming winter: and 40
the audience was loyal enough after count
ing the first six lines of the cuckoo clock
10 begin audibly TO count at one again
IN order to put the actor at his ease
Sound Beach. just to place it for those
who don't commute on the New York,
Now Haven and Hartford road. is just
shout a mile-but lets get at something
easier.
As the time for the show approached last
evening there was nautical commotion
along the Sound. Chief of Po- leece AID
Palmer was working his way up the beach
AMI announcing az he jumped d~eftlysfrom
oyster TO oyster that he was going up to
s"e the troupe and to form himself into
poleece lines around the sage door. That
was the signal agreed upon by Admiral
frank Daniels Of the good houseboat
Never Move to get under way. IL was the
first time the Never Move has been away
from Sound Beach since she ran into the
mud there sixteen years ago
For a point eight miles across the Sound
and then some coastwise work TO Douglass
Manor started the Never Move Ad-
inlral Daniels stood on the back stoop OF
the boat scanning the skies with a pair OF
opera glasses. while ever and mon Com
modore Mason Peters, a deep sea sailor
from Plattsburg, Mo-, who has shipped for
the week end on the Never Move. heaved
IN" lead from the sitting room bay window.
As the two story and basement houseboat
GOT further from the Sound Beach By-heck
school house the barometer grew steadier.
Queen Anne houseboat Iva IL. dead
ahead cried First Janitor Wood from the
crow nest IN the Never Moves chimney.
Ndmiral Daniels consulted his copy OF
-Realy Nautical Dope hastily.
Where away?" roared the Admiral.
'hoars of laughter greet you, sir re-
TUNED the lookout. Admiral. I remarked
very distinctly. dead ahead"
Dramatic critics who were detraining 10
hurry 10 their seatsin the Spelling Bee Audi
forum of the By-heck school house TO write
a STICK or two about the show for the New
,"rk papers could see from the shore that
something weren't done Immediately
Nv the crew of the Never Move" the
AdnlraGs flagship would split the good
sup Iva L." from the Queen Anne roof
20 Ne cellar. The Iva L." il commanded
ny skipper Cecilia LOTUS. who for the rast
Two weeks has been living aboard the Loaf
giving limitations Of a part Of the floating
POPULATION of Sound Beach.
stand by TO man the lawn mowersl'
cred Admiral Daniels, who had lashed him.
sell 10 the stationary washtub on the back
hG"p Of the Never Move"
by the time rhe dramatic fotilla of row.
boats bad reached the -Neve Mov the
ere" were racing frantically up and down
,he SIDE porch of the craft and pushing the
AVN movers before them 80 that the breeze
81 ~" whirrlng knives would slew the ship
10 s'arhoard in time to avoid a collision
"ih the Iva L."
kubher plants overheard" yelled First
cantor Wood suddenly from the mansard
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