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Show Deceived by a Stage Joker. Tho wholo City of Mexico is laughing laugh-ing at tho hoax to which two American Ameri-can women residing thero fell victims' recently. At the Kcnacimiento Theater The-ater the other day one of the artists who was singing on the stage was to all appearances abruptly interrupted by a member of the audience and told in Spanish that ho sang like a canary. The singer apparently took the matter mat-ter very much to heart and there and then demanded satisfaction from the Intruder, inviting him Into the street, which was accepted, and tho two started for the street, the majority of tho people being "wise" to tho circumstances. cir-cumstances. Tho American women, however, Imagined they wcro witnessing wit-nessing a real tragedy, and grabbing their rich silk skirts in both hands started screaming down the aisles to tho stage, not discovering their error until in full view of tho entire audience, audi-ence, which by this tjmo had set up a good round of applause, in which the theatrical people took a prominent part. |