The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-12-05

Ihe Heart OF Maryland, Wntcn VIII
be the bill at the Auditorium Theatre,
Burlington, on Friday evening, December
| 8, was one of the earliest successes of
David Belasco He wrote it about twelve
years ago after having produced THE
Girl left Behind Me" He first offered
it to A. M. Palmer, who turned it down.
Subsequently, Charles Evans and Max
Blieman, who are running the Herald
Square theatre in New York, accepted it
for their house, and the result was run
of more than 500 nights, during which
time the theatre was packed to its doors
during every performance Mr.. BelascO
had at that time just discovered Mrs. Les
lie Carter, whom he made the central
figure in the play, and in order that the
dialogue and action might exactly suit
her talents, he rewrote many of the lines
and changed much of the situation for
her. The play was a revelation to the
theatre goers of this country for it was
the first complete exhibition of that stage
realism for which Belasco's name has
since become synonym. 1t was in The
Heart of Maryland" that the mimicry of
musketry was first done with the use of
rattans, thus avoiding the odor of powder
in the house, and i was in this play also
that the clink of cocoanut shells was first
introduced to represent the sound of
horses hoofs. For period of three
years Mrs. Carter starred in THE Heart
of Maryland" winning possibly the great
est triumph of her stage career therein,
and when at last she surrendered the
piece to take up other work that Mr.. Be-
lasco had provided for her the great war
romance was placed in the hands of a
second company and sent on tour of the
country, so that all might have an oppor-
tunity of witnessing the wonderfully real
istic production This being the tenth |
anniversary of the original production
of 1.-The Heart of Maryland, Mr.. Belasco
deemed it a fitting period to celebrate
and hence he has revived the war drama |
and placed it in the hands of an all star
cast, including Odette Tyler, who is cast
in the role that Mrs. Garter created Orrin |
Johnson r. d. MacLean, Wallace Eddin-
ger and John E. Kellerd, who as Colonel |
Thorpe. the drunken officer, is playing the
role which he originated when Mrs. Garter
was starred in the play.
George Edwardes' great company in
''Veronique" continues to draw capacity |
audiences to the Broadway Theatre, New |
York, and will score one of the most sue
cessful runs made on the Rialto in many /
years. This piece is an entirely new de-
parture in musical entertainment and one
seeing it does not wonder that it made
run of over 500 nights at the Apollo Thea
tire in London. Ruth Vincent proves
most captivating personality in the title
role.
Charles Dillingham; presented Thomas
W. Ross in new comedy, called "a
Fair Exchange, at the Liberty Theatre,
last evening. This piece is by Henry
Blossom, the author of Checkers"
and was written especially for Mr. Ross,
who has been fitted with glovelike nicely
in this production. The new play comes
to New York with the enthusiastic en-
dorsement of the critics of Boston, Phila-
delphia, st. Louis and other large cities.
The plot of the comedy deals with the adj
ventures of young ranchman, ClIffe Aus
tin, played by Mr.. Ross, who has made a
fortune in Arizona and comes East to visit
his sister. At first he finds it hard to con-
form to the manners and habits of the East
erner. He is typical Westerner, clear
headed and long sighted, and he soon
discovers the scheme of broker who
is preying upon his sisters property.
The main thread of the plot however,
hinges on the result of yacht race which
is to be sailed between this broker and
friend of Cliffe's. The broker plies his ri
val with wine until he is in no condition
to command his boat. Cliffe, who has
only theoretic knowledge of yachting,
takes his place, and though outsailed and
beaten at every point, he manages to have
the race declared draw on technicality.
The hero gets himself in no end of trouble
trying to right his sisters affairs and
makes countless enemies, at one time
coming dangerously near losing the love
of the girl whom he subsequently marries.
This comedy is one of the cleverest seen
on the American stage in years, and fairly |
bristles with bright up-to-date repartee
and scintillates with good natured satire.
Richard earle, the player playwright,
who scored so decided a hit with his new |
farcical opera, 1.-The Mayor of Toxic"
in Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia, |
opened his New York engagement last
evening, at the New York Theatre.
Mr.. earle is probably the most versatile |
musical comedian in the United States, |
inasmuch as he is librettist composer,
producer, star and manager. He has every |
detail of his profession at the ends of his |
fingers and his success largely is due to
the minute and intelligent attention with |
which he directs his theatrical attractions. |
THE Mayor of Toxic" in which Mr.. |
Garlic will make his bid for metropolitan |
favor this year, generally is conceded to
be the best thing the young librettist- !
composer producers star manager has done.
Press and play goers alike acclaimed the
piece a success everywhere it has been
played. The scene of the piece is laid in
Japan and deals with the adventures of
stranded troupe in the land of the Mikado.
Mr.. earle plays the character of Marcus
Orlando Kidder, a comic opera impress.
sario, who has gone broke with his luck
less company thousands of miles from
Broadway. By popular chain of circum-
stances, Kidder and his Komiques, as the
troupe is called, become entangled with
the destinies of the mayor of Toxic.
This ENHANCEMENT results in a series
of humorous misunderstanding and COM
plications, which keep the audience inter-
ested and laughing during the course
of two acts. Aside from the personal hit
scored by Mr.. earle, splendid impression
has been made by the Peanut Ballet,
nine little girls who's dancing borders on
the sensational. They were selected by
( MI earle from number of Western must
cal productions, and are probably the
youngest ballet on the stage as their
average age is between Is and II years.
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