The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-09-19
Theatres.

Pecks Bad Boy Without Uncle Tom
and Peck's Bad Boy once each year. we
would think our dramatic season incom
plete. We have Uncle Tom year after
year and it is always the same, there being
no way to change it, but this season Peck 3
Bad Boy has radical changes; in fact all
the old material that has made so many
people laugh for the last twenty years,
and which we have come to know almost
as well as the actors do themselves, has
been discarded and an entirely new yer
sion prepared. The old familiar charac-
tiers of the Grocery Man. Duffy. Maj. and
Mrs Peck, The Chum, Servant Girl, His
Sweetheart and Henry Peck the Bad Boy
are still the ones to create the fun, and a
new one introduced who will aid and abet
and add new opportunities for funny sit
nations. Each character is portrayed by
competent people, and an exceptionally
good singing company is one of the main
features. operate Selectionf, Duets,
TriOs, Quartettes and Choruses are finely
rendered. Many novel specialties intro
duced and with all these and an entirely
new equipment of scenery and costumes,
this always funny farce comedy is made
better than ever. 1t will be presented at
the Mount Holly Opera House on Sept.
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The first production in Burlington of
the new sensational and stirring society
melodrama, why Women Sin, !" will &C.
cur at the Auditorium Theatre on Satur-
day evening. September %, with the pop
ular prices of 25c, 35c and SOC. Seats can
be secured in advance in Mount Holly at
the drug store of DR.. Prickitt. The new
drama, which has made big hit wher-
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en- scenes, and is from the pen of Will G.
Murphy, well known newspaper man,
who has drawn careful pictures of an in
trigue in New York society founded upon
facts. The play shows the undercurrent
of emotions of the butterflies of fashion,
and the temptations and traps that beset
the women of society. The action of the
play is brisk and snappy, the comedy and
pathos blend we'll together, and the eli
makes are dramatic and sensational, yet
with all the plot is consistent and the dia-
logue crisp but clean. The scenes are all
laid in New York city, and among the
features are the Millionaires' Club, exte-
rior and interior, illuminated grounds of
the famous cafe on Riverside Drive over
looking the Hudson river, in front of
Holy Trinity Church on a snowy, winter
night, and the handsomely appointed
Golden Fleece gambling saloon in full op-
Grafton. Some of the sensational scenes
are the struggle on the stairs, the baby s
prayer, the hand of death, the duel in the
dark, the shooting in the gambling room
and the great climax in front of Holy
Trinity Church.
"a Guilty Conscience" was presented
in bungling manner by an inferior lot of
performers at the Auditorium Theatre, in
Burlington, on Saturday night Before
the first act had been finished Clarence E
Prince, manager of the amateur aggrega
ton, on the plea that he wanted to get
out of town to meet business engage
ment, succeeded in getting his share of
the receipts earlier than is the usual Gus
tom. 1t became apparent from the be-
ginning of the play that the actors were
lacking in stage experience, not even
being proficient In their parts, and at
times they looked like so many sticks
stalking across the stage. The first act
brought forth ridicule, the second con-
tempt. and the third pity for those who
felt. obliged to go through the perform
ance. Disguised listeners left the thea
tre, while Others in the same frame of
mind remained until the close, their feel
ings finally changing to sympathy. Be-
fore the curtain was raised for the fourth
and last act. ] w. tanning. owner of the
theater. relieved the situation He said
that he as well as the audience had been
grossly imposed upon. The company
came to him highly recommended, and he
had every reason to believe in the SINGER
ity of the guarantee. He admitted that
the show was no good and craved the in
diligence of his hearers, who could not
but admit, from his endeavors in the past
that it had been his aim to furnish moth
ing but first class attractions. He said
that if division of the receipts had not
been made, he would ring down the cur
tain, stop the performance and refund the
entrance money. He promised that no
such repetition would occur in the future,
and gave the assurance that the perform
ance for next Saturday night would be
well worth attending.