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COMEDY.
S. P. 2613-2620. THE TIN WEDDING.
Approximate Length, 810 feet.
Price, $97.20.
Married life has its pleasures and frolics as well as its trials, and a good old country couple having been many years married, their friends and neighbors decide to celebrate the return of the day with a surprise party and shower of tinware in good old-fashioned country style.
Like most all "surprise parties" the recipients are well aware beforehand of what is coming, and the scene opens with preparations to receive and welcome the "unexpected guests." Very funny incidents and situations transpire. The old lady, who is not as slim as she used to be, insists upon mounting a ladder, and personally superintending the preparations, while the old gentleman gets busy with a new stove pipe which he is trying to fix, but which, after the manner of stove pipes from time immemorial, obstinately refuses to be fixed, and the usual scene of confusion follows.
When order has been brought from chaos the presents begin to arrive, and many laughs follow the undoing of the several packages. But the guests are arriving and a very animated scene is depicted as one after another the friends make their appearance. Some confusion is caused at first by the r)ranks of two boys, sons of the house, but being detected the old man orders them upstairs to their room and follows to inflict deserved punishment.
Unfortunately the boys' room is directly over that where the guests are assembled and an open stove pipe hole communicating with the room below affords them just the opportunity they need to continue their mischievous operations, and to still further annoy their parents and the inoffensive people below them, while the arrival of additional guests and the beginning of festivities give them a much desired opportunity of annoying their elders, and every attempt to celebrate the occasion downstairs with usual festivities is met by some interference from above.
More guests arrive, refreshments are served, and the health of the old couple is drank with great enthusiasm. Then the fiddler mounts his rostrum and to the inspiring strains of his music young and old join in the measures of the dance. But in the meantime the boys have not been idle, and various misadventures satisfy the folks below that there is something in the air. Directly under the stove pipe hole stands a table and on the table — a jug which does not contain syrup. A fish hook at the end of a string secures the
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