Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1910 — At the Ellis Theatre Saturday Evening, November 5. [ARTICLE]

At the Ellis Theatre Saturday Evening, November 5.

“Bachelor’s Isle,” the 3-act musical comedy which comes to the Ellis Theatre on Saturday evening, Nov. sth, is one of the < prettiest musical comedies of the season, at least that is the report from every place they have played this season. The first act is supposed to take place on the grounds of a New York college the day prior to the opening of vacation. A young gentleman who is in the employ of a wireless telegraph company offers to take the girls with him on a yacht which has been chartered to take a wireless outfit to a little island near the Bermudas. The second act finds the party on board the yacht in the middle of the ocean and every one is scared, as they are being pursued by sharks. A colored servant, who has been carried aboard by accident locked in a trunk is found and upon being threatened by the crew that they will use him for bait to satisfy the sharks, he jumps overboard, saying that he will beat the sharks swimming. The crew have no time to look for him as the island Is sighted and they prepare to take to the small boats and row over. The last act finds every one in rapture over the beauties of the island, and the owner, an old woman-hater, is smitten by the winning ways of one of the girls and before the final climax every one is happy and they decide the cognomen of the island should be changed to “Honeymoon.” Miss Floyd as the college coquette and Mr. Flint as the old woman-hater are great. All the other principals are above the average and with the aid of a snappy college chorus’it makes a performance that is sure to please. Mr. Flint is an old favorite in our city, having played here on four previous occasions with other companies and anything which he offers Mr. Ellis 1b sure up to the standard. Prices are reduced to 25, 35 and 50 cents.