The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-12-09

employment to 500 persons, SO no wonder
all Philadelphia seems to have gone mad
over its beauties Never before in the
history of the Chestnut Street Opera
House, covering period of twenty years,
has the theatre been so crowded at every
performance. From the present outlook
long run could be enjoyed, but other
bookings having been made, the spectacle
Will only cover the holiday period. Seats
are now ON sale three weeks in advance
and can be secured for the Christmas and
New Years performances. Special matt.
nees will be given on both days. Messrs.
Nixon q Zimmerman promise special at
tention to mail orders.
Klaw & Erlanger have given the Ameri-
can public many stupendous productions,
notably ben Hur" and 1.-THE Brownies, ="
but with ''The Sleeping Beauty and The
Beast, +" they have fairly eclipsed all pre-
vious efforts, running in Philadelphia at
this time of the year, sort of London
Christmas pantomime which it was origin
ally produced as, it will prove source of
great delight to the young folks as well as
their parents Matinees will be given on
every Wednesday and Saturday in addi-
| ton to the holidays during the run in
Philadelphia.
1.-The Sleeping Beauty and The Beast"
will not be presented in any other city in
this country excepting Boston at the end
of the Philadelphia engagement.
COnev From the published accounts
in the New York papers, which
lSldHu have been devoting unusual
space to the subject, Thompson & Dundy' IS
Luna Park and All Worlds Amusement
Exposition" which is to open its first
summer season at Coney Island the Ist of
May next, is far the biggest, best and
most select entertainment of the kind ever
undertaken by either public or private en-
terprise, and inaugurates a new, COM
mendable and really high-class and as
tonishing era in what are generally known
as Midway Shows. Its conveniently &C.
cessible site includes an area of twenty
two acres, covered with all sorts of huge
and artistic exhibition and pleasure pal
aces, and less pretentious though archi-
tecturally elegant and inviting structures,
electric towers, monster Casino for the
presentation of hippodromatic and circus
performances; the largest ball room in the
world, a spacious "Rath Haus," Town
Hall, containing an auditorium of thou
sand capacity, and fine banquet and recep
ton rooms for the free accommodation o.
all kinds of business. scientific, denomin.
and private parties. In addition, kiosks
pagodas, cafes, courts, plazas, band stands
lagoons, canals, mountain cataracts, cleo
trio and geyser-like fountains, romantic
walks, lovers lanes, sequestered bowers
grottoes, picnic and children's pla,
grounds, tropic foliage, rarest flowers, anc
other concentrations will fill respecta
bic farms space to the brim with gran
deur, grace, beauty, marvels, music, mirtf
and original, elegant and uniquely 1nvit
ing entertainment, all gloriously illuminet
with the lightning-born rays of ZOO, ooc
arc and incandescent electric lights
Among the multitude of magnetic. mar
velous and mirthful new departures arr
included, A Trip to the Moon, Twent,
Thousand Leagues under the Sea- tn,
great Naval Spectacular, the river Styx
tile Whirl of the Town, the Dragon
} Rouge, Volcanic Doom ofSt. Pierre, Tha
Girl from Up There, Grand Casino Circus
Scenes in Venice the Superb, Philippine
At Home, Old German Village and Con
vention Hall, Infant Incubator, Educated
Sea Lions, Savage. Performing Wilt
! Beasts. the Caves of Capri, Shooting tn,
White Horse Rapids, Forty Miners Min
ing Camp, Eskimos at Home in Thei
Icy Hannts, Quaint japanese Village
Log Cabin Where Lincoln was Born
, Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Roya
: Babylonian Roof Garden, Rare Zoologi
cal Garden, Yellowstone Park, Mountain
: Mill and Yosemite Falls, Typical Irisl
Village, A California Gold Mine, High
Class Vaudeville Stage, ''Rath Haus'' o
, the Middle Ages, Wonders of the Nethe
Deep, Adriatic Water Carnivals Aquati,
. Athletic Contests, Spouting Geysers. TIL,
plans for this twentieth century enterpris,
where the moral marvellous, and mirth
full, the educational and enhancing; tn,
pure and phenomenal; the grand ant
J greeful, will go hand in hand-call for
million dollars preliminary expenditur,
and the united nine months labor of owe
five hundred men. The Exposition
regular staff will include at least half .
thousand strangest people, artists anC
J attendants and its daily running expense
exceed $4,000.