The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-12-23
Theatres.
Keith's
Chestnut
Street
Colby and Way, in their
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Chestnut ventriloquial comedy and
Co., dancing doll act, come to
o'eet Keith's early IN January.
This couple have been absent in Europe
for four years, and are reported to have
scored an immense hit.
II will be interesting to note whether
the Florodora Sextet makes as big a hit
with Keith audiences as it did with those
who attended the Legitimate" theaters.
Sometimes it happens, and there were q
few conspicuous examples of it last sum.
mer, that speciality that was a tremen.
dous chit" in musical comedy or light
opera receives less enthusiastic greeting
in vaudeville. 1t is up to the young ladies
and gentlemen of the sextet, and the
chances are they make good" when they
appear at Keith's next week.
John Bowker, who comes to Keith's
the second week in January, will bring 6
bright, new travelogue which he calls
"Contrasta It is said to be the merriesi
effort he has yet put forth, and the illus
trations most amusing.
Nothing more satisfactory in the way Of
vaudeville show has been offered il
Philadelphia this season than the current
weeks bill at Keith's, and the large at
tendance at every performance shows that
the public realizes the fact. There is an
excellent balance between the number o.
acts that interest and those that amuse
not always found in big show.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's first dramatic
effort will be produced for the first time al
Keith's new theatre this week, by Matte
Keene & Co. The title of the sketch is
''Her First Divorce Case" The plot deal:
with matrimonial unpleasantness and alb
surdity. A man and his wife have a fan
cied quarrel, and both seek divorces, but
after the beginning of proceedings each
withdraws. The complications are clever
apt and original, the couple being even.
tually brought together by the clevernes:
of woman, who understands woman:
/ nature.
The one and only John Healy, without
competitor in the blackface monologus
class, will be at Keith's week after next
Healy is known from the Atlantic to tbs
Pacific as about the cleverest artist in hi
line in the business, and every individual
/ in the audience has to thaw out when h
appears.
Keith's That the thester-goers art
1.. awakening to the value of tn,
DiJou Bijou Stock Company was de
monstrated last week by the larg,
audiences which gathered to witness 1.-THE
Lost Paradise" This week S bill will b.
"a Temperance Town." than which
many declare. Charles H. Hoyt did no
write a superior entertainment. Thi
picture of life in "a Temperance Town,
the persecution of the only saloon keepe
by the 'Ramrods," with its pathetic anc
comedy incidents, constitutes show tina
has had few equals of its kind since
was written. The doings of Mink Jones
the town drunkard, and Bingo Jones, hi:
scapegoat son, together with the coined,
presented by Roxana, Mrs. lanes and ok
Uncle Joe, furnish highly enjoyable nom
ents- Sympathy is aroused for Ruth, th'
daughter of the clergyman, who is turne'
out of her home because she has warnet
the saloon keeper of the forthcoming raid
Malcolm Williams is to be seen as mini
Tones," the town drunkard; Edna Philip
will play Ruth Hartman" the clergy
mans daughter; Orme Caldara will be tn
Gentleman Jack WORTH" Beatrice In
gram will enact the role of "Roxana;
Helen Reimer will appear as MARY Jan
Jones'" and Edwin Nicander will appes
as "Mink's" son.
The Sleeping Beauty Begi n nj
i and the Beast Chestnut stree
| Opera House the last four weeks of Kla'
& changers production of the Londo
Drury Lane, spectacle, THE Sleepin
Beauty and the Beast" are announced
The engagement of this spectacle wa
originally made to last through the Chris
mas and New Years holidays, but S
emphatic has been its success that an Ell
tension has been made for two extr
weeks. This London Christmas spectacl
will be the merriest kind of attraction fc
Christmas-tide and will joyously usher i
the New Year at the Opera House. 9Th
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" it ma
be reiterated, is in every phase of its IT
presentation a production of magnitud
and beauty. Scenically and in its wor
drous costume display it glitters wit
many of most elaborate and beautiful e
fects ever devised and executed by seem
artist .and costumer. The grand ballet
are enhancing in graceful movements; til
large cast of singers and comedians an
the chorus combine brilliant entertain
ment in music and mirth. Then there
the flying ballet, one of the most besutifi
and sensational novelties ever introduce
in this country.