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

of the Rev. Milo Towers, owner of "Sky
Farm" has secretly married Orrin Breese
several months before the action of the
play begins. At the rise of the curtain
she is imploring him to make public ac-
acknowledgement of the marriage. He. hes
itates and finally refuses. There is no
doubt of his consuming love for his wife,
but he insists that he has good reasons for
continuing the concealment of their mar
riage. He has an old curmudgeon for
father, a mean, narrow-hearted skinhint,
who would disown him if the marriage
came to his knowledge. In few months
he would be of age and would come into
a fortune left him by his mother, then he
would be independent of the father and
could let the whole world know that Mar
igold was his wife. Marigold asks that
the marriage certificate be given into her
keeping, but Orrin has reasons for not
doing that, and when he leaves her she
is broken-hearted, for she has not in her
possession one solitary bit of proof that
might act as shield between herself and
dishonor, should circumstances arise de-
manding the production of any proof.
The vicissitudes of this pair of lovers are
threaded in sweetly sympathetic way all
through the play. The romance of JON
quill Towers, who is Marigold's younger
sister, and noble Neighbor Nixon has a
brighter prospect and more joyous swing
to it, and then there is Augusta Wilkins,
daughter of the village postmistress who
bubbles over with fun and mischief all
the time and who has several strings to
her bow. And then there is the village
postmistress herself, with her cap set for
the dude of the village, who, however,
much prefers the daughter, and succeeds.
Other village characters abound in the
play to,the interest of the story.
lFI 0RIZEI At the Academy Of
tomorrow evening, February IL, when
Florizel Reuter- makes his first appear
ance, there will be the dual interest of the
| first hearing of this acknowledged won
derful boy violinist and of Miss Lucy
Gates, soprano from Utah, who has had
three years training under Nine. Corelli
in Berlin, been highly praised by Mime.
Marchesi in Paris and is now to tour with
Florizel under the management of Major
II. B. Pond. Those who have heard her in
private describe her voice as being one OF
Exceptional sweetness and purity and
highly cultivated. Florizel has just re-
turned from Europe, where he has been
perfecting his studies and lately enjoying
very successful concert tour. Florizel
repertoire includes the twenty-four ca
prices by Paganini, which he plays by
heart, and some of the most difficult
pieces by Vieuxtemps, Bach, Wienawski.
Mendelssohn and Mozart Florizel began
his violin studies under Max Bendix in
Chicago. and was sent by Secretary Gage
to the Geneva Conservatory of Music un-
der Henri Marteau, where he graduated
last year, and although at that time only
9 years of age, he received the highest
honors in the gift of that institution. A
very interesting program will be offered
at the Florizel- Gates concert, and Adolph
Close, the we'll known New York pianist
and accompanist, will be at the piano.
Seats for this concert are now on sale at
Heppe's, Ills Chestnut street. The prices
range from SO cents to I.5o.