The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-10-01
Theatres,

Stars will twinkle brightly at the Forrest
| Theater, Philadelphia, this week. The
American element, is announced. nre-
dominates In the bill, with lust enough
foreign flavor to give it piquancy. There
| is nothing in up-to-date entertainment
more distinctively American than George
N. Cohan's Running for Office" in which
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Cohan.
are playing for few weeks, by arrange,
ment with Messrs. Cohan and Harris
1t Is seven years since Mr. and Mrs.
George Conan appeared in vaudeville.
George Mack. of Foxy Grandpa" fame
has the authors original role and much of
his peculiar method and manner. In the
| cast is Rosie Green, soubrette and dan
Ger. Another star to fill theater is Her.
mann. assisted by Nine. Marie Hermann.
just back from Europe with new and per-
picking illusions and tricks of dexterity.
His Fairy of the Enchanted Roses" is de.
scribed as bewildering. A girl is placed
in transparent glass trunk, swinging in
mid-air. A drapery is thrown over it and
when removed the trunk is found to have
been transferred several feet to the right.
A tree in the center of the stage is trans.
formed in twinkling, in plain view of
the audience, into an enormous rose. bush.
The trunk is disclosed empty, while the
| girl appears in the mist of the CLUSTERING
roses. Desroches and Blanca are French
eccentrics, from the Folies Marigny who
| give piquant songs of the boulevards and
are mimiced by two tiny dogs that are
dressed as their counterparts SYDNEY
Grant, one of the most refined of mono.
| logists, will present a new budget of
songs and stories The three Keatons. In.
Guiding the inimitable and irrepressible
juvenile Buster, have new sketch of
| farcical foolery that compels laughter.
The Four Lukens are announced as ingen.
ious and sensational performers upon the
horizontal bars. Matt Keefe, formerly Doc
stander's boy soprano, and Tony Pearl,
an Italian instrumentalist, appear in their
specially, ''The Singer and the Harpist. "
Henry and Alice Taylor have a composite
i offering in which Miss Taylor, sharp
shooter. illustrates pistol and rifle practice,
| while Mr.. Taylor does tricks of eouili
brium. An added attraction is Joe Welcb.
formerly star of 1.-THE Auctioneer" and
1.-The Shoemaker, who is back in vaude-
vile for brief time, with new stories of
Hebrew character.
Several years ago Nat c. Goodwin. the
comedian. scored one of the most pro-
nounced hits of his career in Henry v.
Were Twentv-one." The play was hailed
throughout the country as one of the
most pleasing productions, and as its
story is somewhat out of the ordinary it
has apparently grown in popularity from
year to year. Recognizing the merit of
the play and its numerous pleasing quail.
ties, the Orpheum Dramatic Stock Com
pany has selected it for production, and
the patrons of the Chestnut street Theatre.
Philadelphia, are assured of seeing this
entertaining comedy in its best light.
The plot of when We Were Twenty one"
is rather ingenious and decidedly original.
1t deals with a chapter in the life of
Edward Barew, an easygoing bachelor
whose one reason for existence appears to
be to make other people happy. The
play opens with birthday celebration of
one of Dicks close friends. There are