A clever comedy, no matter how well acted, does not necessarily draw a capacity audience. "The Full House", however, lived up to its name, and from the moment the curtain was rung up, kept the crowded theatre reverberating with laughter. Everyone expected to laugh, and laugh spontaneously; the house was prepared to clap, and its patrons are not claques, each of the favorite actors as they first appeared. There is an infectious atmosphere about the St. James which positively breeds mirth.

Plot Complicated By Robbery

The reception room of a spacious New York apartment: a butler, English of course, and a Swedish maid who are left by their mistress to attend the wants of a newly-married couple. Mr. and Mrs. George Howell: a morning paper containing accounts of a robbery of a ruby necklace from a Mrs. Pembroke of Boston, and of a railroad accident on the Boston to New York line--these are the first clues. The young wife has been deprived of her husband's company at the outset of her honeymoon, while Howell, pretending that he has a very important legal task to execute for a client in Cleveland, goes off to Boston to double-cross for an indiscreet friend. Mrs. Pembroke's son Ned, a hard-hearted Vera who has the usual incriminating letters and ideas of their proper use.

Papers Taken For Necklace

George Howell's success in stealing Vera's valuables is matched only by the professional light-fingered skill of one Nicholas King who returns on the same keeper that George takes. What with the accident and other excitement, the bags get mixed. King getting that containing the letters, and Howell that with a certain ruby necklace and burglar's tools.

King turns up at the apartment to exchange bags, but in the meantime the stupidly comical maid, Susie from Sioux City, complicates matters by discovering the rubies and pocketing them in order to claim a reward. This of course, just to make things, already mixed up, a little worse and ten times funnier. There are relatives, one of whom is the finance of Ned Pembroke the police, Vera, and finally Mrs. Pembroke. After the first act, the house proves a perfect trap, thanks to the slogan of Officer Mooney. "You can come in but you can't go out."

The plot has many a kink and these who add most to the humor of the lines are Miss Hitz as Susie, Bernard Nedell, the "wise" crook. Houston Richards, who has no small gifts as a cone and John Collier, the harassed husband