The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-04
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The program at Keith's Biiou, Philadel-
phia, this week is calculated to produce a
continuous laugh, as it contains a number
of comedians, among them some of the
best in vaudeville. The bill comprises a
straight vaudeville entertainment of the
highest order and can scarcely fail to
please all lovers of this style of amuse-
ment. The famous Russell Brothers,
whose portrayal of the Irish servant girls
invariably provokes much laughter, will
appear and infuse a lot of new material in
the act. The Rossow Brothers, those very
entertaining little midgets whose illustra-
ton of pugilism evoked incessant laughter
last week, will continue as one of the
prominent features. Charles Rossow, the
smaller of the two, will again appear in
the garb of a soubrette and sing several
songs. John G. Fox and Kate Alien will
again be seen in 1.-THE Flat Next Door, "
and another highly amusing sketch, 'An
Uptown Flat" interpreted by Willett
and Thorne Company, will also be a fea-
ture of the program. Reno and Richards,
~acrobatic comedians; May Cook, vocalist
and cornetist; Pat and Matte Rooney,
dancers; Dan and Bessie Kelly, comedians
and vocalists; Harry Edison and his dog
musician; Lester and Jerman, German
comedians; Hart and Williams, comedians
and dancers, and Carl Krill, violincello
%soloist, will also contribute to the bill.
''The Purple Lady" which is the new
Easter production at the Bijou Theatre,
New York, is a farcical comedy which
Sydney Resented has adapted from the
German. The title of the play refers to a
lady who posed for a painting made by a
young artist who, to carry out a color
scheme of his own, in a moment of inspi-
ration took the artistic license of painting
the lady's hair, which was of a peculiar
reddish hue, a distinct purple. The com
ment aroused by this bold innovation
brought sudden fame and notoriety to the
artist and his subject, the latter being ever
known as The Purple Lady. Presuming
upon the fact that she has thus contrib
uted to his reputation, The Purple Lady
appears upon the scene to urge embarrass-
ing claims upon the artist on the eve of
his wedding to the daughter of a wealthy
merchant whose austere and digniied
wife has not become quite reconciled to
the idea of her daughters marrying a
painter. The cousin of this wife, a hard
ened man of the world, who had met The
Purple Lady in Paris at the studio of his
friend, the artist, is called upon by the
latter to relieve him of the complication
which threatens his future happiness.
This he finally accomplishes by the heroic
measure of himself abducting the lady in
question. Before this end is achieved,
however, the necessity for satisfactorily
explaining to the memorable mother-in-
law the presence of The Purple Lady in
her house, whittier she has come in pur-
suit of the painter, involves the most com-
ic and bewildering ENHANCEMENT of a num- |
Der of innocent people, among others a
mild hammered professor and his wife who
have both come to attend the i'm impending
wedding. The many humorous episodes
that spring from the awkward but well
meant attempts of the professor and his
wife to live up to the disagreeable duties
that are thrust upon them are said to be
so infectiously humorous and pathetically
ludicrous that from the first appearance of
the professor at the end of the first act to
his final relief at the close of the play a
series of startling drolleries ensues The
title role will be played by Miss Maude
Harrison, the artist who painted not
wisely but too well, by Mr.. Sidney Booth;
the professor, by Mr.. E%tinenne Girardot;
his wife, by Minnie Dupree; the bride by
Miss Fernandez; her mother, by Blanche
Weaver, and the worldly cousin by Mr..
William Bernard. Other important parts
fall to Mr.. Charles Plunkett, Mr.. William
F. Garfield, Miss Ruby Bridges, Mr.. Hen
ry Stockbridge and Miss Jennie Neville.