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An Assisted Proposal
Nov. 13, 1913.
This play is most earnestly recommended to all bashful lovers — provided they really mean business and would marry the girl if the ceremony could be gone through with under anaesthetics.
It's a comedy, of course — an3' such proceeding naturally wonld be, you know — and there are as many good laughs as there are minutes taken up in showing the film. Joe — is a bashful cowboy, very much in love with Kate. Jim, is another cowboy who understands the situation and is getting tired of waiting for something to happen — handsome girls being at a premium in that locality.
With several others, they are invited to a dance, en masque, at a neighboring ranche. Joe selects his costume — lets Kate know what it is to be — and is then suddenly called away on business, which he hopes to conclude in time to return for the dance. He gives the explanatory note to Jim — who fails to deliver it, and goes to the dance in Joe's costume. While masqued, he proposes to Kate— and supposing him to be Joe, she accepts. Jim then changes into another costume — leaving the first one for Joe, who presently returns and is much surprised at Kate's suddenly afifectionate manner with him. Later, she vvhisperingly asks him when they are to be married — and in bashful terror, he tries to bolt. But the cowboys hold him until Jim appears with a minister he has managed to round up — and the pair are safely married before Joe quite understands what has happened to him — or why — or how.
The situations are intensely laughable, all the way through — good clean, rollicking cowboy humor, with a pretty little love-story running in and out of the plot.
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The Water Cure
By F. Lonergan. Nov. 2, 1913.
A funnier, prettier play than "The Water Cure," it would be hard to find among the new attractions. All her life, Bella, a girl of the Middle West, has dreamed of the ocean — and when her older sister, who had married and gone east, invites her to spend the summer with her at Cape May, she is enraptured.
The attractive western girl arrives at the hotel, and becomes immediately the centre of admiration for three young men, each of whom tries to monopolize her whole attention.
"I'm just crazy about the water!" she confides to them — and they each and all resolve on the spot to show her old ocean. First, Harry asks her to go rowing. All is "perfectly lovely," until the innocent land lubber rocks the boat — and they are upset. Then, along comes Tom, with his yawl, and rescues her — but flatly refuses to take Harry on board — as his rival is a good swimmer. They bound along merrily enough — until Bella forgets to look out for the boom — and, a second time, she and her admirer find themselves in the water. Dick hauls her into his motor boat — and Tom is left to strike for the shore. But the engines stop — and once more Bella is overboard — Dick with her. At last, with the aid of a life preserver, he brings her to dry land.
In the space of one eventful afternoon, Bella gets about all of old ocean she wants — and she takes the next train home to Kalamazbo.