The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-04-18
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JOSEPH H. CASKILL
THOMAS L. CASKILL
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w. W. CURTIS

miss Bob White" comedy opera by
Willard Spenser, whose Little Tycoon
and Princess Bonnie" are still whistled
and hummed in every household, has in
his third opera outspensered himself and
Messrs Nixon & Zimmerman, the famous
magnates, who will present the Spensel
opera in the Auditorium at Burlington, on
Friday evening, April %, have given that
work the most complete, luxurious and
surreptitious mounting ever accorded a
Spenser opera. 1t is complete, delightful
and picturesque, but not overdressed nor
overdone and the lavish expenditures
have been for talent and not for tinsel,
which together with the meritorious book
and melodious music, are a triumvirate
hard to beat 1t is not generally known,
but it is none the less true that Willard
Spenser, the author composer, is the
originator of dark changes" on the stage
during the action of the play. 1t was his
idea to have the change made from the
interior of General Knickerbocker's house
to the illuminated japanese garden in
''The Little Tycoon" when it was first
produced in Philadelphia. When Mr..
Spenser first suggested this idea the
stage manager stood aghast, but we all
know how universal it has now become in
ser carried his point and in his two later
successes 1.-The Princess Bonnie" and miss
Bob White" he has adhered to his original
idea and the results are particularly
striking and go no little way towards
making harmonious whole so necessary
to complete success.
THE SIGN OF THE Cross.
The Boston Globe, in speaking of "The
Sign of the Cross" engagement in that
city recently, says: ANY one who wit
messed the two immense audiences in
Music Hall yesterday, where the Sign OF
the Cross began a two weeks engage
ment, could not fail to have been impress.
sed with the tremendous hold this drama
has upon the public. For eight seasons
this remarkable play has been on the stage
and yet the tense silence, the eager watch
fulness af the spectators and the unmis-
taxable interest was greater than at its
first presentation here And the reasons
for all this can easily be traced In the
first place the story. while both of a relig-
ious and an historical nature is yet told
with so large an amount of human traits
that it appeals strongly to all classes.
Love, hate, ambition and other of the
passions of man burned as fiercely in the
days of Nero, the despot, as they do to-
day, and while the brutal instincts of man.
kind were held less in check then, there
are the same underlying principles, so that
there is no sentiment which is not readily
understood and appreciated. Then again,
the management has permitted no deter
ioration as regards production, either in
cast or scenic environment, and this factor
enters in no small degree into the wonder
full success achieved by ''The Sign of the
Cross" The company at the Music Hall
is no exception to the general rule. Wal
ter Law, the young English actor, is a
worthy successor to Wilson Barrett, in
the role of Marcus Superbus, project of
Rome.
This strong attraction will appear in
the Auditorium, at Burlington, tomorrow
evening. Secure your seats at Prickitt's
drug store.