The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-11
Theatres.

|kEITRS They seem to be cor
railing every thing worth
having on the Keith circuit and the list
for this week at the local house indicates
that the extensive clientele will have
plenty of high class entertainment. There
are no less than FIVE Feature" acts in the
group of performers selected for the week
here. The leader is Woodward's Seals.
said to be the only troupe of trained sea-
lions on the globe. This turn is conceded
everywhere to be an entertainment of a
highly enjoyable character No one will
gainsay that Tom Nawn and Company in
Pat and the Cent?" furnish a half hour
OF laughter that is not surpassed by any
other comedy turn. The English PONY
Ballet demonstrated last week that it is
composed of the most attractive and shape
iy lot OF girls ever seen in a variety bill.
Their success was so instantaneous
and undeniable that their engagement has
been continued another week. R. 7. lose
IS the foremost balladist to-day engaged in
theatrical amusement. The three Dumonds
furnish the most artistic and entertaining
musical turn in vaudeville. In addition
to these five acts. which are the best in
their respective lines, there will be seen a
program which is highly entertaining
throughout, the performers embracing
Duke and Harris, who have compared
favorably with Melville and Stetson: the
Onllaw Trio, who will be seen for the first
time IN Philadelphia in a wonderful wire
act; Carroll johnson, the popular comedian
Lenore and st. Claire, comedy singing and
act; Kleist brothers, novel and mysterious
musical act; Frisco Comedy Four, vocalists
and comedians; Harry Brown, the negro
comedian, and the biograph.
~ On next Monday even
SNN, ing, the 25th week of the
Parks successful sea son,
will be inaugurated with an attraction, the
excellence of which is already we'll known
to Philadelphians, it having PLAYED its
last local engagement at the Chestnut
Street Opera House in September, where it
met with instantaneous success, winning
the unanimous plaudits of the public press
and pulpit. york State Folks has been
pronounced a charming sequel to the
series of "heart-to-heart" plays which in
clude "The Old Homestead and "Shore
Acres" 1t presents pleasant picture of
domestic life in a typical American viii
lage, and the story is told in a simple
though decidedly effective way. The
scenes showing the ''settin'-roo of the
village home. the store and postofice and
the wood-shop of the wagon-works are eff
fective examples of the artists skill. An
exterior, showing a village lane by moon
light. is said to be the prettiest ever shown
in similar presentation. There is also a
unique finale, revealing in dream effect
church scene. with organ and full vested
choir of boys, which is deftly devised and
managed.
The Company numbers some very we'll
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able old musician, and James Lackaye,
remembered az the morose brother in
'Shore Acres" with Mr.. Herne, who in
this play is the stubborn village boss, are
said to do the best work of their careers.
Ernest Lamson, as the young horse trader,
with an unsuccessful love affair, scores
heavily in an engagingly natural comedy
role. There are number of smaller parts
usually assigned to subordinate actors, but
in this case put in the hands of character
artists of recognized ability. Among the
most prominent are Arthur Gregory and
Harry Jackson as two quaint village work.
men; Harry Crosby. as a transforming
theatrical agent, and George w. Mahare,
as a country postmaster. Mrs. Sidman
and Miss Lydia Knott make two engaging
village bellies, and Kate Jackson is the
strong-minded sister of the old musician.
There are also two very capable stage
children, whose work is said to be above
the average.
SKY FARM but There 1as. is n notifying thing
Farm" from its beginning until its end,
in Charles Frohman's big production,
which came to the Broad Street Theatre,
last evening, direct from its
run of $50 nights at the Boston Museum,
Cupid leads several couples merry dance
through four acts, strewing the way with
laughter and tears, with grief and with
Joy. The love affairs of three charming