El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-22
ROLLING STONES
4 BIG LAUGH
Oliver Players Make a'Hit
With Latest Comedy
Production.

"Oue big laugh after another aptly
hits off the comedy, Rolling Stones"
which was offered to EI Pasoans for
the first time at the Crawford theater
Sunday afternoon by the popular Otis
oliver Players. Besides its many fun
ny situations and its unexpected
turns and twists. the play is lively
and dashinE and fun OF the spirit Of
youth.
The opening scene reveals q cheap
boarding house in Chicago. where
Buck Rider tlIr. Hammondl IS. having
a desperate time trying 10 get work.
and a stil more desperate time trying
10 stand off his landlady. Anna An
derson, a stenographer, pays the
landlady his bill on the quiet. but he
hears of IL and viii none of IL.
He nhomlses 10 make pay
ment thar night or move out
Scene two shows the Clark street
bridge at night, with Buck Rider on
the lookout for someone TO hold up.
Dave Fulton (Otis OliVer). who is
and in the miNup. Rider learns that
Fulton is in q worse DredIcameut
than himself He takes Fulton TO his
boarding house and feeds him. In
this action, however. there is more
than altruism- Having learned that
Jericho W Braden, VINO took over
the business OF O. Mr. Hewitt. q manu-
Iacturer of candy. on the death OF the
latter, was on his way from Omaha
10 the boarding house. but was BILLED
$50 il was SuppOsedl III a wreck the
previous day, he resolves on an auda-
clOus move and in the next scene
back at the boarding house-he per-
SuodeS Fulton to lmperSOuate Braden,
and accordingly introduces the penni-
less youth as Mr.. Braden.
The play becomes complicated when
the real Mr. Braden. who has all
along been staying AT the boarding
house under the assumed name OF
Walters. learns OF the attempted i'm
position He privately informs Full
son Rice. his attorney. OF the circum-
stances, but orders him not TO prose-
cute, on learning that Norma NOgEs.
the girl whom he-Braden-is sup
posed TO marry to fulfil the condi-
lions Of the viii Of the late Mr.
Hewitt but whom he cannot marry
because he is already married. is
taking a fancy 10 the unknown who
calls himself Bradeu.
Act two discloses the offices OF the
Hewitt candy factory. with Rider and
Fulton duly installed as manager and
proprietor respectively, and with the
real Bradeu as SO q week clerk
The business grows by leaps and
bounds, when mysterious parsonage.
who turns out 10 be a detective. in
Quires into the disappearance Of
Jericho W. Braden. From this point
on there are q series of SURPRISING
complications. including a robbery
and the arrest Of the real Braden.
but in the end everything is ex-
planned and the two impOsters are
permanently Installed as members Of
the firm by Bradeu because Of their
success in building up the business.
Otis Oliver as Dave Fulton kept
the audience in an uprosr with his
odd remarks and his ever present
fear Of the police and the peniten-
tiary- Mr.. Roberts. as attorney Rice
proved a convincing lawyer. while
Miss Barrett. as Mrs. Brannigau. the
-'merciful' lsndlady. bossed her weak
husband (dr. St. Pierre) and threw
in her weight where the money was,
in the orthodox fashion.
The company played TO 2 crowded
house Suudy afternoon and evening
and the interest with which the com
edy was received indicates that they
are likely to do so during the sue
ceeding performance 7. Z n