Clip of the Day 3/4/2022

From The San Francisco Call, 1900

An ad for a play, a “Hindoo Hoodoo”

"The opening of the regular season at the California Theater will begin next Sunday afternoon with the presentation of a 'new, novel and mystical comedy' entitled 'A Hindoo Hoodoo,' to be given by the Whiting & Willis company of comedians which includes clever Anna Boyd, Mattie Lockette, George Larsen and others. 'A Hindoo Hoodoo,' to put it briefly, is a sort of transcendental mix-up, in which an amateur mahatma after successfully assisting at the transmigration of two masculine souls to another and better land for a short season, forgets the recipe when the celestial adventurers' earthly ticket-of-leave has expired but remembers enough to succeed finally in returning the wandering souls to the wrong bodies. The complications, of course, are endless and the possibilities unlimited, and it is understood they have taken fullest advantage of by the author of 'A Hindoo Hoodoo'"