The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-26

"e"~ ~ 10 SdlO 10 De one dig scream
from curtain to curtain.
The Mix-ups start at the fiat Of John
Stewart on Riverside Drive, New
| York Mr.. Stewards family is a wife
and one son, the wife very much on
the hen-with-one-chick order, the son
| just arriving at tennis-flannels and
$500 a month spending money-and
objecting strenuously to the penury
thus forced upon him. Indeed he has
been making absent-treatment love TO
contortionist lady in the flat up
stairs and pawning his fathers clothes
to buy flowers for her. Then Percy
and Mary Peters appear upon the
scene. Percy is looking for the girl
in the taxi who proves to be Mrs
| Smith, the wife of perfume manufac-
turer who comes to pay visit to the
Stewards on the eventful evening
which starts the play on it's rapid-fire
| speed defying journey of joys and
jealousies. The senior Stewart slides
out OF the house late at night. followed
by Percy and later by young Berthe,
the destination of each being unknown
to the other The destination of each
proves to be the same dining room in
the Cafe Churchill where compiled
tons fairly tumble over each other
throughout the act. The head waiter
steers the whole into greater and
greater turmoil, the climaxes are post
poned and heightened, the laughs
come like discharges from gatt!ing
guns, and the end of the act. which
comes in a perfect tumult of comedy,
finds the audience almost exhausted
from laughing and gasping for breath.
! 1t would be bad to describe the last
act which in many ways is the fun
niest of the three, and as the Boston
Globe said, There isn't slow NOM
ent in the entire performance"
|. At the Murray.
| No act is too large nor too expen-
sive for the people of Richmond so
thinks Manager Murray and with this
idea of giving his patrons only the
best available he has for this week
the "Petram's Circus" This act is
one of the largest and best of it's kind
and with this act Herr Petram has
| travelled all over the civilized world.
Dogs, monkeys, a pony and the origi-
nal kicking mule make up the act.
| The comedy is furnished by Mr.. Pc
tram as a clown and his able assis-
tants. Muhc credit is to be given the
lady in the act for the clever way in
which she handles the animals. I'm
like most acts of the kind she throws
aside her whip when working the
dogs and one can see her slyly hand
ing them little sweets after their per.
Torrance ruling them by kindness
only One of the funniest bits in the
act is the bull fight in which the
clown and his assistan participate.
The large bull comes in and puts the
lusty fighters to flight, then enters
the small bull who sits on his head
instead of his launches. The clown
becomes very brave at the sight OF
this bull and kills him after which the
pony comes in dragging the litter
upon which the dead bull is hauled
away The little dog impersonating
the bull is most cleverly trained as
during the time he is supposed to be
dead he does not so much as move a
muscle. The human roulette wheel
and the kicking mule also furnish
much amusement. At each perfor.
nance there have been from two to
three contestants. AS as finish Their
! is the band music furnished by the
| animals, the pony blowing the horn,
the dog playing the piano and another
dog playing upon the trap drums. This
is a most newell feat and must be seen
to be appreciated.