The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-04-17

Simple Simon Simple at the Auditoriu
Theatre, Burlington, tonight.

Theatres.
Simple Simon Simple at the Auditorium
Theatre, Burlington, tonight.
Miss Bessie Mccoy, the petite soubrette
of "a Yankee Circus on Mars, the gigan.
tic circus spectacle from the New York
Hippodrome, now appearing at the Grand
Opera House, Philadelphia, has become
an idol of the children of that city. Thou
sands of little folks flock around the stage
door after every performance to greet their
favorite. Miss Mccoy has three little sis
tiers and five small, troublesome brothers,
which accounts for her ability to please
her diminutive auditors.
There is more truth than was at first
conceded in the rumor that party of dip
lomats would witness "a Yankee Circus
on Mars" while in Philadelphia this week.
There is possibility of the President &C.
companying the party.
Two hundred and fifty stage hands are
required to make the various lightning
changes during the course of the perform
ance of the tremendous Hippodrome pro-
duction now being presented by Messrs.
Thompson & Dundy at the Grand Opera
Honse, Philadelphia. In all nearly 800
people are on the salary list of this enor
nous theatrical creation.
Every thing conceivable of an entertain
ing character has been placed on the pro.
gramme of the Yankee Circus" from q
ballet composed of 400 charming maids to
innumerable animal acts of world wide
fame. 1t cannot be truthfully written
about it cannot be explained it must be
seen. Every person, man, woman and
child should grasp this opportunity Zone,
perhaps, In a lifetime) to witness what the
press of three great cities have universally
pronounced "the worlds best production. !"
The May attractions at the Grand Opera
House, Philadelphia, will be as follows
1.-THE Errand Boy" Billy Van; Duke of
Duluth, Nat M. Wills Buster Brown"
Master Gabriel, aud 1.-THE Airship."
Sam Bernard, in Charles Frohman's
"The Rollicking Girl" the greatest must
cal comedy success that New York has
had for many years, is at the New York
Theatre where he will play limited en-
gagement, supplementing his six months
run to capacity audiences at the big Herald
Square Theatre last summer, where
neither the heat nor any other influence
could keep the crowds away. Apart from
the life, brilliant color, beautiful girls and
showers of novelties in THE Rollicking
Girl, there is the bodybuilding comedy
work of Sam Bernard, the funniest man
on the musical stage, who is never funnier
than he is now in the role of Schmalz, the
wigmaker Laugh follows laugh in swift
succession, as Bernard directs the ava
lanche of merriment and leads the gay
singing and dancing cohorts. Hattie Will
liams, his clever and dashing assistant, is
also more advantageously assigned In the
role of Ilona than she has been since she
m do har fret musical tri1Yrnnh Che ain orc
and dances to perfection and has three Of
the song hits of the production, "Tricks, !"
Friends that are Good and True" and
1.-THE Girl in My Own Town." each of
which will be listened to with pleasure.
Behind this splendid team are eighty ex-
pert singers, dancers and general enter
tanners, who keep the hilarity at a high
pitch and add to the variety and magni.
tude of the entertainment. Among the
big features is the sensational swing song
in which seven pretty girls float out over
the orchestra chairs The song novelties
are the rafting quartette Indians on
Broadway" "Lovey Dovey," which Sam
Bernard sings, and the coon song and
dance. my Cabin Door" Every one Of
them is worth hearing. The marches and
choruses, in which small army of pretty
girls participate, are all very attractive.
Miss Alyce Kee Nan, the popular star
of the mot Like Other Girls" company
that appeared at the Burlington Auditor
ium last Saturday night. has high aspira-
ITEMS She is not content with her triumphs
on earth, but seeks other realms to con-
quer. She would invade the domain of
the birds, not as warbler, as one would
expect to be the case. but really 80 flyer
In other words, she desires to don wings,
cleave the atmosphere, and soar over this
sphere with any lark or eagle, and there
seems to be little doubt that she will &C.
hieve her ambition and go higher than any
other woman sin her profession, or any
other, for that matter Miss Kee Nan, to
be plain, is going to ascend to the clouds,
in the airship which NJ Santos Dumont
will race in the international aerial COM
petition next summer In Paris. She has
| been invited to do this by the aeronaut
himself, and has accepted the invitation.
To make certain that no hitch will occur
in the affair, she and he have obtained per
mission of the French authorities, and
she now has the written documents to this
effect In her possession. And, barring
death In the meantime, to either of them,
she says the plan will be carried out; and.
thus, she will be the first woman to par
ticipate in this or any other country, in ar
airship race.
What will not the ingenuity and the
craving for novelty of the writer of melo
drama lead him to attack Nothing eludeI
him, and to prove this theory Henry Bel
mar has tackled Long Acre Square, Brook
Ign Bridge and Mr. Muschenheim's hotel
all in one play, New York by Night.
Poor "Old Brooklyn Bridge at Midnight
has "been did" before, but the assault Oh
Long Acre Square and Mr.. Muschenheim'
hotel was an original notion, and Mr.. Bel
mar got away with both of them splendidly
The lights on the square, the CLEAN on tn
moist asphalt, the firm yet kindly name
of the copper as he spake his dictum 90
your way" were all so realistic as to caus
a series of delighted quivers in the gallery
and the bronze painted "bursts" of the ps
per chrysanthemums the glare and glitte
of the scene in Mr.. Muschenheim's plaC
seemed to send out watt of quail and his
of fuzz so familiar to those who had seal
in the parquet of the Metropolis. TIL
8 play is an exceedingly well constructe
a melodrama, with the conventional villain
: heroine, hero, and lost child. Of course
after long series of seeming triumph
vice got the solar plexus and virtue tt
+ usual reward, but the course of events
e which this was brought about was most il
teresting and brought out the full strengt
of the lungs of the audience The gree
q scene of the piece was the bridge seen
d Here through the Vaccinations of the vi
q lain the lost child is cast into the rive
3 and but for the timely Johnny on tt
spotness" of the hero would have sws
lowed too much water for her goo
IT He saved her and restored her to the 70
g tune waiting for her and all was we
q The play is an excellent production, al
the cast brings out all the strength in Il
g lines and situations and keeps up the i
terest throughout. To appear at the A
v ditorium Theatre, Burlington, Thursds
= evening. April 10.
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