The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-04-08
Theatres.
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lKEITRS 1t is asserted that the
A a. programme for this week
at Keith's will be equal, taken as a whole.
to any yet given at that resort this year.
Heading the programme is Kara, said to
be the greatest of all juggling experts,
whose skill has amazed all other per-
formers in his line, whose repertoire in
cludes many feats which have never been
duplicated, even by Cinquevalli, and whose
performance throughout is described as
amusing, amazing and generally enjoy
able. The entertainment also includes
one of the prettiest one-act plays ever
given in vaudeville. II is a dramatization
of the charming juvenile love stories told
by Boots in the "Holly Tree Inn" series,
with which every reader of Dickens is
familiar. The sketch is to be produced
under the personal supervision of Au-
gustus Thomas. The three hours of mirth
and melody will otherwise embrace Mr..
Wilmer and company in the first produc-
ton of "a Gay Thief of the Night" Syd-
ney Grant in an original monologue,
which embraces limitations ofnoted actors:
Ward and Curren, the Bachelor Club, the
popular quartet of comedians and singers:
Barton and Mack, blackface comedians:
Newell and Niblo, instrumentalists Edward
Gray, the storyteller, and the Broadway
Trio. For lovers of dancing Elseeta has
been secured, and the Marinellas will de-
light those who are pleased with perfor-
nance on rings. The Biograph views will
include the Atlantic City FIRE department,
highly timely view.
Messenger ..T The local local premiere Of +
boy the spectacular musical
comedy which ran for two entire years at
the London Gaiety Theatre and this season
has scored such popular success in New
York, promises to be an event of more
than ordinary interest to Philadelphia
lovers of bright fun and melodious music
This merry piece last evening opened its
long expected engagement at the Chestnut
Street Theatre, where, all indications
point, it will remain for many weeks to
come. The book" of the piece was writ
ten by James T. Tanner and Alfred Muir
ray, the lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy
Greenbank and the music by Ivan Caryll
and Lionel Monckton. The American
production has been made by Messrs.
Nixon and Zimmerman, and in point of
the strength of the presenting cast, the
gorgeousness of the costumes and brill
ancy of the scenic settings, it is declared
that it holds high place, if not the high
est pldce, among Inc many elaborate
stage entertainments of the spectacular
type seen in recent years. ''The Messen-
ger Boy is satire on the fad for employ
ing district messenger boys in international
missive transportation. 1t would seem to
have the element of melodrama in ad-
dition to its frolic and fun and its catchy
music, for the story of the piece has TO do
with frustrated villiany aslwell as with
romantic love
David That genial comedian, Will
n liam H. Crane, returned to
liar UNI his many local admirers last
evening at the Chestnut Street Opera
House, presenting, for the first time local
ly, David Harum," the dramatization of
the late Edward Noyes Westcott's not
ably popular romance of rural New York
life. The wide popular appeal of the
book and the large personal following of
the star" augur well for the success of
this forthcoming engagement, which, by
the way, bids fair to be lengthy one.
The dramatizatioR of the novel has been
made by r. and M. w. Hitchcock, who
have cleverly retained, it is said, the sail
ent features Of the romance and made the
character of the quaint old banker and
horse trader one well worthy of the
authors original creation. 0fMr. Cranes
portrayal 0fIthis role it is declared that he