Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1915 — Big Crowd Celebrated The Fourth at The Gayety [ARTICLE]

Big Crowd Celebrated The Fourth at The Gayety

There was a very large crowd at the Gayety airdopne Monday night, the total attendance at the two performances exceeding 1,000. Many of these were from the country and from other towns. They had gathered in response to the advertising and the show was worthy their attendance. Besides the pictures there was a good comedy sketch by King A Millard, which kept the audience convulsed with laughter. The scene depicted the unexpected return of a wife from a trip to Paris. The husband had been leading a gay life during his wife’s absence and was to have entertained one of his lady friends at luncheon when the wife arrived. He told several artistic falsehoods that might have released him form trouble except that his wife brought with her a machine that detected lies and sounded a gong whenever he falsified. He kept the gong busy and got into deep water. The husband's helper plade three parts very cleverly, being the wife, the maid and the clandestine friend A quartette composed of Carl Eigelsbach, Paul Beam, Dwight Curnick and Elvyn Allman sang several songs very pleasingly. Following the performance, there yas an exhibition of fireworks, a number of skyrockets, roman candles and pinwheels beig set off. The public, especially the young men, seemed to gather the spirit of the celebration and cannon crackers, balloons and all manner of fireworks were discharged, some rather thoughtless stunts beig pulled off that endangered those on the streets. Nothing serious occurred, however, and the evening was enjoyably spent.