Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1912 — Tiny Mouse Spoils Drama. [ARTICLE]

Tiny Mouse Spoils Drama.

Just as the hero in a romantic play at the opera house matinee in Joliet, IIL, was telling the ingenue how he loved her a mouse ran toward her from the wingsA Miss Olney, the actress, screamed in fright and ran from the stage, breaking np the soene. The hero kicked at the mouse and it ran off the stage and Jumped into the orchestra. Thereupon five hundred women, on seeing the cause of the interruption of the drama, stampeded for the doors. In the rush Mrs. A. Blake was injured. The mouse escaped.