The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-04
Theatres.
kEITHS n There The ,aa are ,s several F acts

KETTHpS There are several act
~ - in one long list of enter
tanners announced for this week in Keith:
program who might aptly be classed a:
stars in their particular field of amuse
ment And aside from the headliners
there.are many capable players who will
4 provide pleasing acts. In Eva Williams
and Jack Tucker the program possesses,
| perhaps, the foremost comedy team in
vaudeville. They have for several years
been employed continuously in ''Shinny's
Finish,' an act that has provoked roars
of laughter throughout the country. In
Driftwood, the new idyl of the East
Side, f" these players are said to have Sc
cured piece no less worthy of their tai
ent. Another novelty of this weeks bill
is the famous English Pony Ballet, ;"
consisting of eight pretty and shapely
young women, who are credited with be-
ing the most graceful and dashing troupe
of dancers ever imported. They have
been identified with the best spectacular
productions for the past half dozen years
IN England. There will undoubtedly be
an ovation for the Three Musical Du-
monds, who, during their former engage
ment scored the hit of the miscellaneous
show in which they appeared. Another
European act is the Sander Trio, which
was seen for the first time in Philadelphia
yesterday. Their ring act has been
feature of European circuses for many
years, and embodies many unduplicated
and startling feats. Harry Parker's per
forming dogs will do practically an entire
show of their own, which will be especial
ly amusing to ladies and children. Other
acts embrace Kelly and Kent in "a
Ginger Snap" Sheehan and Kennedy,
Irish comedians Collins and Hardt, aero
batic comedians, and Murphy and Slater,
colored comedians. The biograph will
have ten interesting pictures; Lovenberg
Sisters will sing and dance; Gavin and
Platt will furnish the chief vocal sketch,
blind Edward l. Boyle will again be
heard in his highly entertaining speciality
of vocal and instrumental music.
BEN HUR Ben Hur will remain
at the Chestnut Street
Opera House, Philadelphia, until Saturday
night, February 8th. The performance Of
the engagement in Philadelphia will be
given at that time. Seats for all the re-
naming performances the present en-
gagement are now on sale. It may be
well to say again, that the performance
begins precisely at eight O'Clock and two
O'Clock. One minute before these hours
the house is darkened, and the curtain
rises promptly at the appointed time, upon
one OF the most beautiful scenes in the |
play, the Star of Bethlehem appearing to |
the Wise Men in the desert No produc- |
t1on on the stage even approaches Ben |
Hur for worthiness and success. KIaw |
& Erlanger deserve we'll of the public for |
their enterprise in bringing forward. in |
stage form, this beautiful religious TO- |
nance. General Lew Wallace, author Of
the famous novel, is becoming rich bv |
way of royalties paid to him on ac-
count of the play. Few books in the Eng
lish language have reached so many hearts |
as Ben Hur, and, therefore, few plays have
Deen made from books that had so many
OF servers ready to pass judgment on its
merits, with marked leaning towards
criticism. This makes the glory of success
which has followed the play all the great
er. No play could have q nobler subject.
aud to treat it at all for stage purposes.
took no little courage and almost genius
OF talent. William Young, the dramatist
faithfully accomplished this, and Klaw &
Stranger. the producers, generously sup
plled everything materially essential to
make the production memorable spectacle
IN the history of dramatic works The
thirteen scenes that illustrate the place of
The momentous episodes concerned in this
religious romance are masterpieces of
scenic art, and the accompanying music
IS of dignified tone and Charming quality
seldom heard in connection with drama,
nc performance. No one can we'll afford
missing the performance of Ben Hur, who
$ at all interested in the progress of the
stage, and historic, religious romance or
are curious to see dramatic spectacle, the
magnificent splendor of which surpasses
ever seen in this or any other
country.
~ .Af The tin can knight of
AONNN New York Journal fame
in an armor of rags and
! freight-car steed will bid Philadelphians
4 welcome at We Park next week. The
knight is of celtic origin and of newspa-
per tame and staggers industriously under
he euphonious, if not altogether illustii-
BUS title of Happy Hooligan' Car
oonist Opper, whose comic pictures have
IN Sunday amused the readers of the New
FORK Journal, never conceived funnier
Individual than one Happy Hooligan.
whose face adorned the rear page of that
widely circulated Journal for many moons
and who has since adorned cigar stores,
Advertisements, etc. But the greatest
wonder OF the times in theatrical parlance
It any rate is the adoption for the stage
Of character so like the real Hooligan
hat one is forced to punch ones self to
-eallze they are not travelling in the Land
IF Nod
Hooligan has stepped right from the
picture page to the stage with the rags
and tatters, funny and filthy with the tin
can sombrero and antagonistic bulldog,
We ind him surrounded by all these char
acters which have made his story famous
and known in every household.
Ross Snow, who was for many seasons
with Klaw and Erlanger in
heir splendid production Of 'Jack and the
Beanstalk," is the Happy Hooligan; Harry
Ezier, well known in vaudeville and
comedy circles, is the Tough Girl; and
other artists of the calibre of Adelaide
Marsden, Halliday and Quinn, Whelan and
DITTO, Maggie Weston and a chorus of
Iorty, make an ensemble that will be in
Guided in comedy lines for many months
% come.