Town Hall, Tonight (1911)

• 74%
• 1911
• Comedy
• Gilbert M. Anderson
• Victor Potel
• Augustus Carney
• Gilbert M. Anderson

Another of the Essanay's funny "Snakeville" comedies. Two wandering thespians, whose one lone trunk bears the legend "Schulz Brothers, in Vaudeville," are hitting the grit back to New York. They are sore and tired when they reach "Snakeville." They decide to stop overnight, and if fortune favors them to give a performance and gets enough money to ride back to Broadway. Thereat they bill the town and make ready for the performance at the Town Hall that evening. Their efforts to please the critical Snakeville audience are futile and before they have rendered their first selection the audience bowls them off the stage and all leave. Furthermore the management in the box office has decamped to the "Red Eye" saloon with all the proceeds of the performance and they are in as bad a fix as before. The next morning one of them is arrested for stealing a pie from a kitchen window and thrown into jail. The other, the little short fellow, plans to get him out and masquerades as old mother. She then visits the sheriff and informs this latter that "She" has just arrived from the east looking for her wandering son. The photo shown the sheriff is that of the prisoner in the jail. The sheriff is easily moved to release the prisoner and starts a collection to get the poor fellow and his dear old mother back east. Not until they are safe on the back end of the platform of the departing train does the "old lady" reveal her identity. Then pulling off her wig, she does a few capers and the buncoed citizens on the station platform fall in each other's arms.