The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-17

Quality and quantity will figure largely
in the entertainment at Keith's this week.
No less than nine of the specialties assign
ed to Philadelphia this week are the lead
ers in their respective lines there are two
the Art Studies and the Dog and Mon
key troupes-that afford two distinct and
entire shows themselves Never in the
history of variety has a more massive pro-
duction than the Keith SO, 900 Art studies
been available at single act in lengthy
program. Never before have so many
beautiful and shapely women been en-
gagged in any local theatrical engagement
1t will be practically a new product
ion, for few of the twenty living pic
lures have hitherto been shown here by
Mr. Keith and "The Angelus" has never
before been reproduced in Philadelphia
living picture productions
Notwithstanding the magnitude of the
headline, the bill throughout is above the
standard. The Three Dumonds, who were
seen yesterday for the first time in this
city, are flrst-class musicians as we'll as
laughmakers Macart's dogs and mon
keys convulsed all observers klast week :;
Smith and Campbell are the funniest male
team in variety George c. Davis, one of
the best monologists heard in Phi1ade1-
phia since the death of ]. w. Kelley; the
DeCourcey Brothers present an acrobatic
act that is thrilling at times Lew Sim
mons and Frank White provide one of
the funniest black-face acts ON the boards
and Hill and Whitaker Brestou-Runkle
Trio, Merritt and Razella, and Mathews
and Foley also present pleasing special
ties. The biograph will show President
Mckinley, Shamrock II, and other valu-
able films, some educational, others anus
ing.
For the coming week at the Park theatre
we are to have the famous, much written
about and exceedingly popular musical
comedy in all that the term implies 1.-The
Telephone Girl" While many plays of
this variety are short lived, or outgrow
their usefulness in a season or two, "The
Telephone Girl" with its wealth of hand
some scenery, its bevy of beautiful
maidens, its opulence of costly raiment,
its unctuous comedy and all the other ia
nous features, seems to be a perennial joy,
for this is its fifth successful season, and its
attractiveness instead of being dimmed is
apparently as great as ever. 1t is one of
the best of all the noted New York Casino
productions, the greatest money-maker
with the possible exception of its sister
piece by the same authors, "The Belle of
New York" "The Telephone Girl" is
one of those elastic plays that can be sub
jected to constant change and improved
with the times. Last season it was some
what different, and much better than it
was the previous years. This time it
comes to us, it is said, still better than it
was last season. The cast is stronger, the
girls of the chorus more beautiful, the dia-
logue funnier and the ensemble seriously
enhanced. Nobody should miss seeing
THE Telephone Girl" The leading
members are: Ethel Robinson, Irving
Brooks, Marie Richmond, Annie Lloyd,
Charles R. Burrows the Browning Sisters,
Ruby Kendall, Irene Young, Eugene
Weiner, Arthur Conrad and the fascinating
girl chorus.
Last evening at the Chestnut Street
Opera House, Philadelphia, the new play
of ''York State Folks" was put on the
stage for two weeks engagement. "York
State Folks" is one of the most beautiful
plays on the stage to-day, II tells the
story of the struggles of Myron Cooper,
an organist and organ builder, and has a
pretty love story running through il. The
play does not depend on mechanical de-
vices for its ability to please, but is entirely
devoid of such. In Mr.. Sidman's play
the realism that appears is that which pos
SeSSeS true neart Interests, tnat WHICH ap-
peals to the better nature of man. The
play is bound to succeed it cannot help it.
1t contains the most natural and interest
ing humor intermingled with pathos that
can be found in any of the rural dramas
One feature that recommends it is that
there is no villain, the nearest approach
being a young and jealous lover, who
vents his rage by slamming things around
One cannot imagine more beautiful or
more real picture than the utter incapable
ity of old Mr.. Cooper, cleverly portrayed
by Mr. Sidman, to thank his friend for
selling his organ up in Rochester, there
by making him rich man. AS the old
gentleman sits i'll his rocking chair he falls
asleep and the stage being darkened he
SEES, as in a dream, the choir and organist
in the church, the choir softly singing
Calvary"