Harry B Toomer and Co.

Theater:
"The Headliners" The thread hinges around a male team from the west who secure an opening at the house to show their act Upon arrival they find themselves headlined, but after the first show are canned. They are ejected from the theatre and take up quarters outside the stage door. Shortly after the property man appears and apologizes for kicking them out of the theatre, saying he had made a mistake, that the management liked the act and had sent them out a contract for ten weeks. The act which was dropped in their place is a single woman. She leaves the theatre depressed, but on the outside meets the team, one member of which is her husband They had been separated, but with the turn of luck for hubbv are reunited and the double expands into a trio.
Source:
Variety 46:3 (03/16/1917)