Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-28

Keith & Proctor's Big Shows.

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In the world of amusements, the
amazing topic of comment nowadays
is the ability of Messrs. Keith &
Proctor to present week after week
at their seven theatres in New YORK
and Jersey City the enormously ex-
pensive programs for the strikingly
small prices of twenty-five cents at
the matinees and twenty-five and
fifty cents in the evening. While
theatrical managers generally may
marvel at this condition of affairs,
the public, 1t may be safely stated, is
not at all worrying over 1t, but on the
contrary is taking all the advantage
possible, by crowding the houses at
every performance. With the prices
so low as this, it is difficult to keep
the spectators from injecting their
Objectionable personalities at the
Keith & Proctor houses, but in the
box Office sale SO strict a surveillance
is kept on all buyers that spectators
rarely obtain any of the much covet-
ed twenty-five and fifty cent seats.
AT the palatial Fifth venue theatre
the privilege of smoking in the bal
cony has been recently introduced
with very gratifying results. Indeed
II was all iiltlONdllOh lHdl nlCt WIN
such instantaneous approval by the
patrons that the same smoking privi-
lege was introduced also at the Har-
lem Opera House. Today the smok-
ing balconies are in vogue at four of
the sever Keith & Proctor houses, to
wit: Fifth avenue, Harlem Opera
House, Twenty-third street and Fifty
eighth street. And at all the houses
tho e, /, 1, ri. N XIV t,nnn1or cnalnl
of prices is maintained of twenty-five
cent matinees and twenty-five and
fifty cents for reserved seats at night,
The programs are tremendously at
tractive and naturally so far when a
circuit of such great Importance
seekks artists it obtains the best in
every branch of vaudeville. The
greatest names in theatricals are fire.
~quently seen in the announcements
week in and out in Keith & Proctor's
theatres and it is not an exaggeration
to say that the seven theatres COM
prising the famous Keith & Proctor
circuit are admittedly the most pop
ular, perhaps, in the United States.
Proctor's Newark Theatre.
A holiday bill hal will meet the
demands of the most facteius in it's
variety and excellence will be seen
at Proctor's Newark setting a stand
ard for the coming year that will be-
yond doubt give "Newark's Theatre
Beautiful" a firmer hold on the
the amusement loving public in this
vicinity.
Thanksgiving Day at Pottsville,"
a pretty rural comedy in n act in
which tender pathos is mingled with
bright comedy, will be presented by
the Barrows-Lancaster and Company.
Those ever popular musical COM
edians, Snyder and Buckley, will be
heard in twenty minutes of fun and
music. The O'Meer Sisters, the
greatest of all tight wire artists, will
appear in their speciality. Lowell
and Lowell, two Newark boys who
for the past six years have been
travelling in Europe, where they were
hailed as the premier American COM
edy %acrobats, will prove their right
to the title upon their first appear
ance since their return. That grand
old man of minstrelsy, George Will
son, will entertain with a brand new
monologue. Aurie Dagwell pleasant
ly remembered as 1.-THE Girl of 81"
will be heard in a novel singing spec
ialty in which Miss Dagwell will be
THE College Girl and will intro
duce the college songs of some of the
larger universities. The Holdworths,
new corners here, will display their
talents as singers, dancers and ban
ioiSts.