The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-04-11
TUESDAY, APRIL IL, 1905
Theatrea.

Theatres.
Mary Mannering in a new play. is this
weeks attraction at the Broad Street
Ineatre, opening there last evening for an
engagement OF one week only, with matt
nees on wednesday and Saturday. This
new play is drama by Paul M. Potter.
calieq Nancy Stair" and comes to this
CITY direct from its New York engagement
Mnere 1t has been playing at the Criterion
Theatre, with the original company and
scenic investiture Nancy Stair" is
founded on incidents contained in Elinor
mccartney Lan's novel of the same title
anu WORK OF which many complimentary
tnings have been said. As the literary
world already knows, the story is of the
adventures and love affairs of the madcan
daughter of Lord Stair, Scottish Noble
man, at the close of the 18th Century.
among the beautiful Nancy Stairs many
admirers are the Duke of Borthwicke
DanVers MacGregor, and the poet, Robert
Durns. The ID Ike is murdered; suspicion
iails on DanVers; Nancy resorts to many
extremes to save her lover but believes in
MS guilt though her love for him does
not waver. Danvers, when he learns
that she suspects him, renounces his love
ana spurns her, but after she discovers
anu Wrlngs confession from the real Gull
priI, ne (Danvers), returns to his allegi-
ahce ana pnghts his troth anew. Obvious
~ In this story, there is much scope for a
VIDE range of treatment, all of which Mr..
Potter In making the dramatization. has
taken advantage Of As the heroine Miss
mannerlng has been supplied with role
gnat offers her much opportunity for the
display OF her well known dramatic abil-
ny; Manager Mckee has provided an ex-
cellent company for her support. the prin-
nj WI hi ob Il n
lyle, L. Daniel Frawley, Frank Losee.
Edward MacKay, Clarence Handysides
Stanley Dark, F. Owen Baxter. Maude
Granger, Lucille Flavin and Others
A MINISTER ON THE THEATRE AND THE
CHURCH. The dramatic art is a legiti-
mate art, and acting may be made an
honorable profession, and the church
should recognize the fact and use its
influence to induce all good people to
patronize the plays and encourage the
players who give good entertainments,
ana stay away from the performances that
minister to vice. There are immoral PLAYS
and plays that are as innocent as milk
There are bad men and bad women in all
professions. The pulpit's vituperation of
the theatrical profession is as unchristian
as only a clergyman who never saw
good play would ever dream of making it,
Inc stage seldom or never strikes back.
The numerous scandals of the American
clergYmen now serving terms in the var
lous penitentiaries of the land afford legi
innate material for the stage. Those ma
terlals remain unused because the dramat-
list, the manager and the actor have too
great respect for religion to weaken it
Dy emphasizing the signs of any of it's pro-
Iessors. Water cannot rise higher than
It's source, and the character of the theater
cannot be sustained above the character
OF those who attend. Playwrights and
actors are not to blame for what we get
on the stage. want to fix the RESPONSE
Dlllty for the present order of plays where
1t belongs-upon the public. Let the
people stay away from every performance,
Whatever its artistic excellence, if it
abounds with intrigue and immortality. /
mention this, owing to my being accosted
by several OF my congregation since my
attendance OF the production of Faust
at the Academy of Music last night. which
was only reiteration of my custom for
the past fifteen years TO attend good play
whenever the opportunity presented itself
1 have never preached a sermon with
better moral effect than was given last
night, and can only say, God grant that
there were more such plays. Rec DR..
Madison G.. Peters. Faust will be seen
at the Burlington Auditorium theatre,
next Saturday evening, April 10. Prices
%, 30. 80 and rs cents.
"The Innocent Maids company which
appears at the Auditorium theatre. Bur
nngton, tomorrow evening, april 10, )has
the popular endorsement of press and
public of all the large cities; and no
wonder, for T. w. Dinkins has presented
this popular attraction for the past four
seasons to pleased audiences everywhere.
and The Innocent Maids" is conceded to
be one OF the best burlesque organizations
on the road. The entertainment opens
with the funny farce, 1.-The Red Lion, "
forty-fve minutes of spectacular comedy.
presented with beautiful scenic effects
with visions of pretty girls, and genuinely
funny comedians The olio is an all-star
one and introduces many new faces aud
lew old favorites This is followed by an
intensely funny burlesque, entitled "Hotel
Ups and Downs" which is really of the
farcical order and calls for the strength of
the entire company.
At the Auditorium theatre Burlington.
to- morrow evening, april IL, Manager
L. w. Dinkins will present the famous
burlesque and vaudeville organization. |
"The Innocent Maids, in bill which. it |
is promised, has never been surpassed. |
The entertainment commences with a side |
splitting farce, called ''The Red Lion.
and introduces some of the top liners in |
the vaudeville field. The closing feature
will be George Totten Smiths clever
burlesque, "Hotel Ups and Downs" in
which the full siren 9th of tho oomnopx 10 |