The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-11-25

Keith's
Temple

keIC0 s heltns new Chestnut
Temple ae crowds dsS dupng tse
past two weeks. No small share of this
''land-ofice business" is due to the edifice
itself, which is generally conceded to be
one of the sights of the city. Judging by
the attendance it is evident that everyone
is anxious to inspect this veritable palace.
The program prepared for this week is
unquestionably the most enjoyable enter
talnment that has been thus far provided
on the stage of the new theatre. 1t was h
foregone conclusion that the Fadette Wo-
mans Orchestra would be retained, their
popularity being more marked than that
of any single act that has been exploited
by Manager Keith in Philadelphia. The
Fadette's program for this week will be
the most delightful yet offered by these
popular players.
An unusually strong comedy depart
ment is announced, assuring no less then
three hours of laughing, the turns of the
headline class embracing Lena Merville,
Sidney Booth and Marion Gilmore, in
THE Two Juliets;" Al Leech and the
Three Rosebuds, in the eccentric comedy
sketch, entitled Examination Day at
School," the Three Marvellous Merrills.
who are highly successful comedians. as
well as skillful bicyclists; Edwin Latell,
who is first-rate instrumentalist, as we'll
as one of the best of monologists. and
Morrisey and Rich. Cole and Johnson.
who scored one of the big hits of the past
week, are to be retained for another week.
and they promise a new lot of songs.
Chris Bruno and Mabel Russell will also
be among the strong acts of the bill,
furnishing singing and dancing special
ty, which has been highly successful else
xnfa AID D.
their local debut in an act that has been
pronounced one of the strongest in Europe
last season. Sailor and Barbaretto furnish
what is said to be an entertaining vocal
turn. LucadOs are successful euuilibrists
and dancers the Wonderful Rusch
IS an aerial contortionist; Harry Brown is
popular singer of coon songs, and Con-
ley and Klein are clever comedians. voca-
lists and dancers
Keith'S The Keith Stock Company
R;;o. promises to make its biggest |
DlJou hit the present week in a re-
vival of Broadhurst's farce, "What Hap
pened to Jones3' No play among those
available for stock presentation is superior
as laugh provoker to this merry piece. |
and 1t goes without saying that laughter |
will be king at the Bijou for another week. |
No comedy funnier than .'What Happened
to Jones3' has been presented on the |
American stage since the original presen-
tation of Broadhurst's best work The |
story is too well remembered to need |
much discussion. 1t concerns briefly the
efforts of Ebenezer Goodly, professor of |
anatomy, and Richard Heatherly, his |
prospective son-in-law, to pass off to Mrs. |
Goodly another member of the family, |
who travels for hymn book house and |
carries playing cards as ''side line" to |
meet the needs of every community as the |
Rev. Anthony Goodly, Bishop of Ballarat. |
the professors brother, who is expected /
hourly on visit to his brother. Mrs. |
Goodly has never seen the Bishop, so the |
deception IL easily practiced until the real |
Bishop appears upon the scene Then
complications innumerable arise that keep |
the audience In an uproar. The produc- |
ton will give unusual opportunities for
several members of the company, who
have not hither to been assigned roles so
prominent.
Henrietta That New York did not
C see enough of Henrietta
OlOSilldii Crosman in s'The Sword |
OF the King in which she will appear this
week at the Academy of Music in Philadel-
phia, IS shown by the attendance during
the last week of her engagement at Wal
lacks Theatre, which ended Saturday,
November 18th. Although Miss Crosman
had played five weeks and had turned
hundreds away, the audiences the last
week were the biggest ofall. Furthermore,
while the theatre had been crowded to
the utmost capacity every Saturday night
OF the engagement, the crowd that packed
the theatre the last night was far greater
than any other and the number turned
away exceeded that of any preceding
night. Philadelphia is likewise keenly
interested in Miss Crosman, as shown by
the fact that the advance sale for her en-
gagement in that city at the Academy of
Music opened bigger than the sale for any
like attraction that was ever booked for
that house.
The Sleeping Beauty ! Klaw &
and the Beast GERS e g H.
gantic and impressive production of the
great Drury Lane spectacle, 1.-The Sleep
ing Beauty and the Beast" which they
imported from Drury Lane Theatre, Lon
don, above one year ago at an outlay of
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and brought out at the Broadway theatre.
New York, where it ran seven months I'M
was introduced to the Phila-
delphia public at the Chestnut Street
Opera House for the first time last Mon
day evening and created sensation dupli-
eating the New York success from rise to
fall of curtain. Nothing so colossal or
beautiful has ever before been offered
Philadelphia theatre-goers in the way of
stage entertainment and unless the writer
'The Sleeping Beauty and
the Beast" is in for long and prosperous
at the Chestnut Street Opera
House. Many and merry are the yicissi-
tudes through which the nrineinals in thia