The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-08
Theatres.

With the four strongest acts ever pre-
sented in single bill and an attraction
the Living Art Studies which has drawn
100, 900 people the last three weeks, large
audiences will doubtless be the rule
another week at Keith's. Examination
of the miscellaneous entertainment an
nounced disclose positive embarrassment
of riches, and the wonder increases as to
how so much frst-rate entertainment can
be supplied where the scale of prices ranges
from fifteen to fifty cents. Of the big
-Four" comedy acts, it is perhaps impossi-
BILE 10 predict which will provoke most
laughter. Certainly no four acts of any
comedies seen here contain SO much
laughable matter as is possessed by the
sketches to be presented by Will M.
Cressey and Blanche Dayne, Tom Nawn
& Co., Al Leech and the Three Rosebuds,
and Hall and Staley. Cressey and Dayne
will present, for the first time i'll Philadel-
phia, tomorrow afternoon, IA Village
LAWYER" Mr. Cressey's latest, and, it is
generally conceded, best comedy. Tom
Nawn and company will repeat "a Touch
of Nature" which invariably convulses ali
its spectators. AL Leech and the Three
Rosebuds will again elicit continuous
roars Of laughter in Examination Day at
School," and Hall and Staley will again
present a mixture of instrumental music
and comedy that has not been surpassed
by any other specially of its kind. Others
in the comedy department include Dick
and Alice McAvoy in their new sketch, ga
Waits Christmas Eve and Collins and
North, new corners whose act at Keitn's,
Providence, earned no less favor than did
tbs work of Smith and Campbell. Lovers
of acrobatic work of the Rixford Brothers,
and ladies and children will welcome the
contribution Of Prof. Burton's performing
dogs. The biograph will make the audi
tors spectators of the finish of the Column
bia-Shamrock race on September 20.
David Higgins and George Waldron,
who are we'll known aid popular in other
cities, will appear as joint stars at the
Park Theatre, Philadelphia, next week,
presenting new country play, called
up York State" of which they are the
authors. The story OF the play, which is
in four acts, takes ground between rustic
comedy ana society drama the SCeHeS anu
characters being taken from progressive
community i'll the Adirondacks, with
enough local color to give the play dis
tinction, but not enough to class it with
familiar types of rural comedy. 1t is not
an attempt to dramatic the real Darius
Green of the poem, as might be supposed
by the name of the principal male part
and current tendencies in theatrical writ
ing, but the hero is named Darius Green
and is an inventor who believes in aeria
navigation and knows all about the fell
low who tried to fly and couldn't. He
makes good many sacrifices to promote
his Inventions but reserves enough of his
limited possessions to provide for less fof
tunate people and to keep himself from
the impecunious stage. The first three
acts are written in the atmosphere of
quiet village, and the last act has enough
OF the dramatic to add that touch of force
to events so common in simple communi-
ties when the unusual happens, and with
the success of Darius invention comes the
satisfying denouement of the play. Cup
York State" just closed one of the most
successful runs ever known in New York
city. where it has made the hit of the sea-
son. The play will be given with the
original New York cast and production.