The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-26
Theatres.

The greatest interest was provoked by
Inaudi during his former engagement at
Keith's, but he was compelled, owing to
previous bookings, to leave the city. But
a day before he departed over 100 math-
ematicians, teachers and physicians gath
cred in the rooms of Superintendent of
Public Education Brooks for the purpose
of testing this mental phenomenon and
be came out with flying colors. The
spectacular production (Which will be
continued another week. was all that had
been claimed for it, the improvement over
the previous one being quite evident, es-
pecially in the dance and drill sections.
The spectacular production is good
sized show in itself Notwithstanding the
unusual character of the two headliners,
the comedy department promises to be
more ENJOYABLE than usual, there being no
less than ten acts that will elicit laughter.
The fun makers embrace Thomas J. Ryan
and Mary Richfield, who will interpret
for the first time III Philadelphia Will M.
Cressy's latest sketch, Mag Haggerty's
Father" Cook and Sonora, who al
promise half hour of laughter; Lamar
and Gabriel, the latter midget minstrel,
declared to have been the hit of the Rus
sell Brothers. "Saeet Marie" production;
three Fortune Brothers, a new European
act; AL Ramos bull terriers, and Russell
and Tillye. Conjurer Won Ramp is said
to be leader in his line. The Biograph
will show Queen Wilhelmina and the en-
tire horse race at Morris Park, on Octo-
Der s, won by Clarence Mackev's horse.
On Thanksgiving day Keith's will furnish
entertainment continuously from $50 A.
M. to TO- 80 P M.
The rural drama is a success, that has
been proven by the bounteous PATRONAGE
"Way Down East" at the Chestnut street
theatres, and the exceptionally succ, s5tul
run of ''The Dairy Farm" So great has
been the success of these two plays that
Manager Fred G. Nixon Nirdinger, of the
Park has secured for limited engage
ment at his popular family theatre, the
ouly rural competitor of this pair of sue
cesses. The third of the triumvirate is
''The Village Postmaster" which will for
the first time in Philadelphia be seen at
popular prices.
The play is entirely different from either
of the other successes, and yet it savors
of the same material, and next to Lovers
Lane" which is head and shoulders above
the trio named, has won distinction in
other towns
Philadelphians will have an opportunity
of passing their judgment for three weeks,
commencing next Monday evening.
Perhaps very few people who have seen
The Village Postmaster" ever stop to
think that it actually requires nerve and
courage to make the fall from the top of
the hay stack down the slide into the
threshing machine at the close of the
third act. The Young lady who does this
every night, lets herself go with such
rush, and it is all over so quickly, that
the danger of the act is instantaneous with
the audience The first lady who played
the part put off the ordeal at rehearsals
dav after day, until one morning the stage
manager said to one of the authors: 81
expect shall have to ask Miss ----
TO stay for special rehearsal of that fall.
1 haven't said anything about it before,
because wanted her to get used gradu-
ally to the idea" Then the author
climbed up to the place and said: 81 guess
I'll try it." But when she got there she
thought better Of it and concluded she
wouldn't. The first lady used good deal
of arnica and witch hazel for a few days
until she learned how to do it, but there
has never been a serious accident yet, as
everything is very carefully arranged and
timed.
Miss Angela Russell, who played the
part during the long run of I25 nights in
Chicago, and is now playing it better than
it was ever played before, makes the most
natural and perfectly fearless fall that has
ever been done in the history of the play.
'The Village Postmaster will be seen
at the Park thea re, commencing Monday
night, December I'd, exactly as done dur
ing its long runs in New York and
Chicago, and the company seen here will
include many of t he original cast.