The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-08-27

This week will be the last of the season
OF advanced vaudeville at the Chestnu
street Opera House, Philadelphia. TIL
, season at the Opera House has been on,
OF keen interest and enjoyment to thu
theatre going public, which will I'M
uouotedly give very gratifying house
warming for advanced vaudeville in the
New Forrest For this week at the Opera
House Klaw and Erlanger have prepared
for one of the most promising bills of the
advanced vaudeville series. Owing to
their sensational successes last week, Ida
Fuller and the Okabe Japs are retained
| for another week. Miss Fuller, In the
latest dance, LA Sorciere, presents the
highest development of her inventions in
the realism of fire spectacles, the simula-
ton Of roaring flames and volcanic fires
presenting some startling effects. In the
early part of LA Sorciere," her aerial
| lights with gauzy flre-tipped wells are
most gracefully executed. The Okabe
Japs create veritable sensation W the
novel and astounding acrobatic feats,
many OF which have probably never been
attempted. A most pleasing art novelty
| from the leading German theatres will be
the first appearance of Ernest Brengk' 8
-Four Golden Graces" in artistic poses in
living reproductions of some of the mas
terpleces OF statuary. A strong welcome
| awaits Maud Robin, an English come
dienne, who makes her American debut
| tomorrow with some of the latest Eng
lish music hall songs. Miss Robin is said
to be exceptionally pretty The liberal
offering of comedy features, Poe F. Will
lard and Harry Bon, in a new sketch by
Edgar Smith, entitled 1.-THE Battle of
Bunco Hill" the Marco Twins, the gro
tesque English comedians, presenting the
long and short of eccentric comedy the
monologist, Charles Kenna, and the par
odists, Carroll and Cooke. Some new an
mated pictures will be shown.
This will be busy week at the Forrest
Theatre, getting everything in readiness
for the opening of this playhouse with
Klaw d Changers advanced vaudeville.
on September 2. The Forrest Fheater
will have everything to make it unusually
inviting to the theater goer, notably its
broad promenades, its spacious and lux
uriously furnished parlors and smoking
rooms and its large auditorium, with a
clear view of the stage from every seat in
the house. 1t will also be admired for it's
artistic and beautiful decorations, marbles.
statuary and carvings
The general collar treatment Of the dec.
orations is rose and gray, the metal work
being finished in gold. The proscenium
arch is paneled in pale blue. with she'll
shaped center piece of pearl color with |
figures of dramatic emblems. The private |
box furnishings are of rich velour. A |
Chippendale suite of furniture will be in |
the main parlor, and the ladies' boudoir |
will be arranged with furniture especially |
imported from Austria The stage is said |
TO be one of the largest in America and tits
ted with the very latest mechanical and |
electrical appliances. The stage is built |
in sections, so that traps can be placed
anywhere at almost moments notice |
For the lighting of the stage and the light |
effects in some of the advanced vaudeville |
80 candle power lamps are In |
the borders and footlights, with four colors
in the border lights.
AS already announced, the Forrest will |
be operated in connection with the New |
York Theater Palace of Vaudeville, the |
fremont, Borton, the Auditorium, in |
Chicago, and others. The details of the |
opening program will shortly be announ
ced, and it will be found to be a bill of
surprising interest and novelty, which
will include some European artists who
are due to arrive this week. Foreign
novelties will be conspicuous features of
the advanced vaudeville program, Klaw 6 |
Erlanger having secured many notable |
features of the vaudeville world from
London and the capitals of Continental
Europe. The American bookings include
a list of prominent and popular head |
liners.