The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-11-20

Theatres.
That Philadelphia was in need of first
class family theatre at which man with
a moderate income could enjoy his even
ings, and at the same time enjoy all the
and surroundings of high
priced house, was illustrated by the in
Simultaneous success of the Park, when it
opened last week in its new role. and
adopted a policy set forth by Manager
Nirdlinger, who for the past five seasons
has been guiding the welfare of the Peo-
Plies Theatre in that city. For this week
the sprightly, kewitching "Girl from Max
inns" will be the offering, to be followed
Thanksgiving week, November 26, with
the Broadway Theatre Opera Company, in
DeKoven and Smiths masterpiece, The
Highwayman, after which Miss Mildred
Holland will make her first Philadelphia
appearance and present for the first time
at cheap prices her remark ably successful
play, "The Power Behind the Throne, .
and then the ever-welcome Dan Sully will
produce his new play, "The Parish Priest"
for local inspection. Of the entire list
but one play mentioned above has ever
before been seen at popular prices, and
the last two named are entirely new 10
this city. The price standard adopted by
the Park is as follows Gallery r5c.. bal
cony 25c., 35c. and Soc, while the lower
floor seats are 5oc., 75c., with few seats
at 81.
The bill at Keith's this week will in
clude several grand opera people of con-
siderable prominence in pocket edition
of several of the more popular operas.
Harriet Avery Strakosch, the prima DON
ma: PAYNE Clark, tenor; Amelia Fields
and Warwick Gaynor will be heard to adj
vantage in gems from ''Il Trovatore" and
other operas. Appropriate costumes and
scenery will be employed, and the half
hour allotted for this part of the program
will be we'll worth seeing: Eta Butler,
who is said to be the equal of the renown-
ed Cissie Lotus, will appear in impersona-
tons of noted women of the stage. A
novel and astonishing act is that OF the
clever gymnasts, the three Macagnos.
The others in the program are Harding
and All Sid, Magician Golding, Manning
and Davis, who will enact "The Irish
Pawnbrokers;;" pretty Mile. Olive in feats
of juggling; Linton and Mcintyre, the
Randalls, in novel dances and acrobatic
work; Chicago" the talking dog, which
Signor Maceo exhibits; Newell, Chin
quilla and Dinufrio. instrumentalists;
Prince Ishmae1, the Hindoo magician, and
Johnny Johns. in his monologue. The
biograph has many new and funny pic
lures. Eta Buffers act will comprise i'm
itations of Olga Nethersole, Anna Held,
May Irwin, Fay Templeton, Mrs. Fiske,
Modjeska and Lydia Yeamans Titus. The
entire program is filled with music. There
are vocalists and dancers galore; grand
opera instrumentalists and excellent acts
CHI 1nTlA
prove most attractive to the music lovers,
owing to the high standing of the several
vocalists.
Klaw & changers "Ben Hur'' entered
on its last two weeks at the Chestnut
Street Opera House last evening. Its re-
cord of receipts so far have eclipsed any
thing in the line of Grammatical entertain
ments with which Philadelphia is famil-
lar, and its advanced sale for the remain
ing performances is larger than at any
time during the course of its run. There
are so many scenes of absorbing interest
in this great play that it is almost difficult
to select those which are by universal con-
sent called the most prominent. Some
plays are called stage carpenters plays,
because the work of the mechanical de-
partments prevail in their effectiveness.
This, of course, is not the case with "Ben
Hur," because there are many incidents
of genuine Grammatical worth in the book,
and it was this which first appealed to the
dramatist. From theatrical view point
the marvellous chariot race scene is un-
questionab1y the greatest incident in
"Ben Hur" Within the past few days
the management have remodled the stage
and have beer presenting a new chariot
race, which is great improvement over
that which made such pronounced sue
cess. In this new race the Ben Hur char
lot, by special mechanical device, is made
to jump quickly by the chariot of Mesa
la, and wins the race before the curtain
descends. 1t enables every person in the
Opera House to obtain a clear and distinct
view of the smashing of Messala's chariot
wheel, which, of course, is the vital in
terest in the great scene. The closing
scenes of this great play are all absorbing
and admirably religious as was expressed
by noted clergyman who visited the per-
Torrance a few evenings ago: II saw
truer and more religious feeling exhibit
ed in the closing act of Klaw & Eflang-
er's Ben Hur' than 1 witnessed during
the entire eight hours of the presentation
of the Passion Play at Oberanimergau
last summer" The representation of the
event which the Christian Church COM
memorates on Palm Sunday, the crowds
in and about the roads leading to Jerusa-
lem on the day when the Saviour is ex-
pected, is another great and effective spec
tacle. The stage is again utilized to its
full extent, the scenery laid against the
back and side walls, and the illusion of
the scene painters art is brought into play
until you seem to look off to great dis
lance And here the crowds that fill the
stage are reverently massed on the hill
sides waiting to welcome the Nazarene,
seem to be unending. 1t is most impos-
ing in the realism of the crowds, the di-
versity of the procession, the multiplicity
of design in the costumes of the gather
ing and in the color schemes employed in
the varied Oriental dresses. And yet
while spectacle it does not strike you as
theatric, but what pervades it all through
is its fervidly religious tone, presenting
the spiritual contrast to the almost bar
Daric splendor of the Pagan fete in the
Circus Maximus. The stay of "Ben Hur"
at the Chestnut Street Opera House is
limited to but two more weeks from No
yember 10 as on December 3 Klaw & Err
anger's great production "Ben Hur" in
NO special trains will be taken to Boston,
where it will open the new Colonial Thea
re. which is now almost finished.
Perfect Service to Florida via the Southern
Railway.
At present two through trains leave
Broad street station, daily
carrying through Pullman drawiEg-room
'leeping cars to Florida points via the
Southern Railway. In addition to the