The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-13
Theatres.

David Belasco is making preparat;ons
to celebrate. in fitting manner, the five
hundredth performance of "The Music
Master" which will be very soon. David
Warfield. the star Of the play, has played
Herr Won Barwig nearly 500 times, and he
is looking forward to the completion of
the fifth century with as much enthusiasm
as it he were school boy. Mr.. Belasco
expects that the performance will be wit
messed by all the prominent people in New
York who can get to the Bijou Theatre.
1t will be interesting in more ways than
one For example, the original cast in
The Music Master" is intact, and all the
leading parts will be played fat the 5OOth
performance by the same persons who
presented them on the opening night.
One of the pretty features of the special
matinee OF 1.-The Girl of the Golden West, /"
at the Belasco Theatre, New York. last
Thursday, given as compliment to Mrs.
Leslie Carter, was the tribute Mrs. Carter
paid to her sister artist, Miss Blanche
Bates. When Miss Bates, as the "Girl''
acknowledged the enthusiastic call. she
turned toward MRS. Carter In the stage
box with bow and smile for her alone.
Instantly the famous actress responded bv
throwing magnificent bouquet of Cali.
fornia roses at Miss Bates's feet. The
idea was graceful one. Both Mrs. Car
ter and Miss Bates, as well as the vast au.
dience, understood the Significance of
these special flowers from the Golden
West, and roar of sympathy went up
that shook the Belasco Theatre to the
dome. After the performance Mrs. Car
ter went on the stage, and in her own i'm.
pulsiee fashion threw her arms around the
Girl with heartily hug and kiss, which
were returned with equal sincerity For
some minutes the two great Belasco
actresses chatted, Mrs. Carter telling Miss
Bates that she had never enjoyed a per.
Torrance more, and congratulating her
again and again on her success as the
Girl OF course all the other principals
OF The Girl of the Golden West met
MIS- Carter, and to each she expresses her
pleasure. 1t was gala occasion behind
the curtain as well as in front
Few plays of recent years have secured
such strong hold upon public favor as
has Under Southern Skies" which comes
to the Burlington Auditorium on Thurs
day. February Is, for the first time this
season The play is we'll remembered
hAoAu ioo' oCasOu, TIC Impression IL Ll6n
left being most favorable. Since it has
been seen at Burlington Under Southern
Skies has appeared in many cities and al.
ways to large and enthusiastic audiences
Its reputation is now 80 well established
that it has become almost unnecessary to
print any encomiums of the play, the
mere announcement of the coming of the
attraction being all that is necessary to
draw crowded house. This wonderful
popularity is not hard to account for. fol
there is not a dull or uninteresting mo.
ment from the rise of the curtain until its
fall. Almost the entire first and second
acts are filled with life, gaiety and fun.
The birthday party In the first act and the
Halloween celebration which is the fea.
ture OF the second act are replete with
such natural, youthful fun and frolic that
the audience seems to become part of it,
and long to join in the merrymaking
themselves. So deity has the author
woven her play that the audience is almost
unaware of the fact that through all the
fun making, the story is shaping itself un.
til suddenly it leaps to the front, gripping
the attention, the heart, the sympathies Of
the audience and holding them tense and
fascinated with the denouement. The en-
tire production this season will be quite
up to, if indeed it does not surpass. the
standard of excellence set last season.