Local mime behind royal bars

Bagenville, Georgia

For years, Bagenville’s leading mime, George “Get Me Out of This Box” Druthers, has been upsetting audiences with his performance. You can always expect him to follow you around the City Hall district doing the rope, the lean, eating imaginary burgers, and of course, the finale of him, trapped in a box. Whether you wanted it there or not, it’s been a fixture in Bagenville like the bronze tulips that grace the courthouse lawn.

But a terrifying shouting match between Druthers and her longtime lover, Marcel Moskowitz, has landed the famous mime in jail. When Druthers arrived at his apartment Saturday night, smelling of musk oil, he was confronted by Moskowitz. Moskowitz, who has always been a strong supporter of Druthers, was infuriated by a recent addition to the act. For the past two weeks, Druthers has been pretending to make out with someone else on a park bench.

“He’s very good. It really looks like he’s kissing someone. You can feel the passion,” says an audience member. Moskowitz felt it, too, when he left the show early that night. “I know he’s just an act, but he doesn’t even pretend to kiss me like that anymore!” Moskowitz exclaimed. When police arrived at the scene at 12:30 a.m., Moskowitz was yelling and slamming doors throughout the apartment. Druthers threw several invisible pies, one of which hit an officer in the face.

The melee broke up within minutes when Druthers was placed inside a patrol car. Officer Todd Riggins said, “This is a domestic situation that needed to be aired. It’s not a big deal. But why is the guy still pretending to bang on the glass? The window’s open.” Druther had to spend the night in jail after only making a fake phone call to his lawyer.