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Elmer Lucien Littlefield Howard Mitchell "Hotel Haywire," which opened at the Grand Theatre yesterday, has one of those complicated plots which are innately funny and almost succeed in provoking as many laughs from the audience as the breezily bright remarks and cross-talk of the leading comedians, The climax is one of those wild mix-ups in which people rush around from room to room, both evading and chasing each other in a bewildering manner until one's sides begin to feel as if just one more laugh would split them, to the alarm of the dear old soul on one's left. Morose and cynical over, Mr. Overman justi-flobly heads the cast, for it is a little joke played on him by friend Elmer that starts all the trouble, which involves Dr, Zippe and his horoscopes, the turning of two vaudeville actors into "deteckitifs," a storm in at least two family circles, almost a divorce, and other complications. Some of the situations are, it is true, old ones, but they have been taken out of the cup board and dusted and touched up here and there to provide even more laughs than they did in their pristine state, The "shorts" consist of a Para mount newsreel—a rather startling one, for in the first half one sees Their Majesties going to Scotland, and in the s@cond half one sees them leaving the land of heather; a musical feature; and finally, "Nature Speaks," which combines some excellent scenic and landscape photography with the mournful voice of a gentleman trying to read poetry as it should not be read.—
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