The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-01-10

The Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Thea
tire will have as its attraction for the next
two weeks, beginning last evening, Wilton
Lackaye in William A. Brady's great pro-
duction of 1.-THE Pit" The play is being
presented this season on a larger scale
than ever, with new scenery, the original
cast, and company of over 300 people.
THE Pit" is a dramatization of Frank
Norris's famous story of the same name
1t is the second of the "wheat triology"
of stories which was planned by this la
mented young author; the first, 1.-THE DC
topus" dealing with the growing of the
wheat; the second with its marketing;
while the third, which he did not live to
write, was to deal with the consumption.
There is something tremendous. titantic
about this story, portraYing the fierce
struggle on the Board of Trade by which
the marketing of the wheat is achieved.
The picture of the career of the great
operator is the central as it is by far the
strongest, feature. He is man with the
courage, the nerve and the foresight of
the successful gambler, and the crisis of
the story is reached when he admits that
he has all the money he wants and more
and carries on his trading merely for the
fascination of the game. The story runs
the course which logically and dramati-
cally it ought. The great plunger tries
to quit, but finds life so desperately dull
and the fascination so great that he can
not. As so many of the noted plungers,
he plays the game once too often and too
heavily and is ruined, and the story closes
as he leaves the scene with his young
wife, to begin all over again. All of the
pictures around the pit are admirably
done. The fierce maelstrom in the wheat
pit on a critical day, the clever young
clerks who serve the commission houses,
the pathetic figures of the ruined traders
who haunt the scene of their former great
ness, are all drawn true to the life. The
other business of the piece is interesting,
particularly the love affair in the life of
the great trader, and there is force and
truth in the story of the domestic tragedy
owing to the growing absorption of the
head of the household in the life of the
pit.
Thomas ]. Smith, the young singing
comedian In his ever welcome play, "The
Game Keeper" will be the attraction at
the Burlington Auditorium January II.
1.-THE Game Keeper" is an Irish drama,
but has been constructed on original lines,
with a touch of real American humor
tQdL Is III I'll blauCS IClIcSuluR. LIS az
counts for the fact that it is one of the
greatest successes of the stage for years.
Everywhere it is greeted as a masterpiece
of realism. Its story is interestingly told,
while the comedy that is interspersed in
liberal quantities lends a brightness and
cheerfulness that is all its own. Close at
tention has been paid to all the details and
the production can be appropriately called
complete in every respect. ''The Game
Keeper has strong plot, full of dramatic
situations, and although having largely
for its theme the unreasonable laws of
Ireland, it is in no way sensational. 1t
does not bore the audience with scenes
that are unreal. On the contrary, every
art known to stage realism has been utilized
to make the effect as natural and as pic
turesque as possible. The play pictures
Ireland and its people in true and faith
full manner. The company that will in
terpret the different characters in the play
is strong one, and Managers Rowland
and Clifford's personal guarantee is given
that it will be first-elass performance.
The famous Younger Brothers play is
one that is attracting more than usual pa
tronage everywhere. The Chicago Iri-
6aIne says: THE play in the hands of AL
vim Wyckoff and Percy Herbert is so
beautifully blended and all criminal SEN
sationalism eliminated, thus leaving a
good wholesome impression that it merits
the very liberal patronage that is packing
the Bijou Theatre at each performance
this week" Wyckoff and Herbert are
supported by clever company direct
from long successful engagement, and
this will prove one of the most interest
ing plays visiting Burlington this season,
as every act and feature is based on his
torical facts. At the Auditorium, one
night only, January IA. and for this oc
casion the prices are only 25c, s5c and SOC.
Secure reserved seats at box Office.
People in this section who desire to at
tend the Auditorium at Burlington, can
secure seats by applying at the drug store
of Dr. Elmer D. Prickitt in Mount Holly.