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Miss Gulliver Travels gives a number of actors the opportunity of dressing up in oldtimey costumes and smacking their lips over some colored water which is supposed to be bourbon and ale. It relates the adventures of a troupe of mummers who barnstorm the U. S. circa 1811. Big scene occurs when they give Romeo and Juliet in Washington, D. C. before President James Madison. Here the reunited lovers score a triumph not repeated by Miss Gulliver Travels...
...will set sail for Europe. Instead of Bibles and hymnbooks, these missionaries will carry with them balls, bats, mits. Instead of love and light, these missionaries will shed baseball fanaticism over Europe. Their denominations are the Chicago White Sox (American League) and New York Giants (National League), off to barnstorm Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, as they barnstormed the world together...