The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-07
KELLAR And THURSTON FOLLOW
MONTGOMERY and STONE
The MagiCianS Viii Be at the Newark Next Week--Record-Brea
ing Business Done by "The Red Mip'--The Other Theatres;
BY R. M. LARNED.

TOUCH of variety will be given to the season ofd dramatic and musI
IA cal productions at the Newark Theatre IN Monday, when Kenar
IA will unloosen his bag of tricks to inaugurate a week of stage magic.
It las been a long time since KeHar has visited Newark, and there will be
many who will be glad to welcome him back and whom his sort Of enter
tafnment will amuse, Kelar is the dear of the conjurors, and during many
years las borne the reputation of being master of them all. His partner,
Thurston, who is also his prospective successor, is a newcomer in Newark
witt the weather and Lent both ganst ii, it is astonishing the amount
of business 1.-THE Red Nip las at the Newark this week.. 1t hs, In
fact, Manager Robbins states,b broken every record of he house. The prices
charged for seats hav been higher than for n other attraction of the year.
except Miss Adams n Peter Pan" when the same scale wa employed. yet
and wednesday afternoon Cash Wed nesday, tool, the house vas no filled.
but. n records for the year of performances at those times were disrupted
out # all recognition Only o. the occasion of a benefit hs there been a
larger number of paid admissions turned in OF a fonda igh AT lst
ACCOUNTS, yu couldn't buy, beg or borrow, and the holders would probably
&ke very good care that you couldn't steal, a ticket for a seat 1t tonights
Nrformance.
Y Yet. from other than a box-omce standpoint, 1.-THE Red Mill was not by
any means the most important. production oil the year here. o its success
else. Everybody had seen thsp pail in "The Wizard Of Or" and everybody
wanted to see them in their new piece Nobody who did see them was dis
trio, comic methods of Fred Stone particularly and. in, no small proportion
the very graceful music Of Victor Herbert, amply rewarded those who at
tended. The book, contributed by Henry Blossom, was 10 ceverer, and no
stupider than those of a hundred other musical comedes
Thomas Z, Shea. who has played Blaney's Theatre severald times in the
last few years. has been advanced to the dignity Of stardom in the higher
puced houses, thu following in the footsteps of Robert Manten. Mr.. Shea
will come to the Newark Theatre in a few weeks in a new romantic military
drama together with 1.-THE Bells and CDR. Jekyn and Mr. Hyde" He will
Right Of Way" la concluded. Mr.. Shea is now under the managerial ban
mel of Conan & Harris who adopted him al their own last fall
What a pass the dramatic art is coming to when its practitioners are
Willing to sacrifice me of it's most che rished and tme-honored institutions
on thu altar of publicity! The chorus of a musical comedy at Wanacks
heatre las Just pettioned the New y ok Aldermen % prosecute stage-door
"Johnniesn by whom the pretty ladies say they are peHered beyond en-
DURANGO If the system of re-pressa as entry just instituted by a New York
society onan who wants to keep herself out of the papers whenever pos
sfle. could e grated upon he thea trcal profession. it would be in the in
terests of its dignity. butthe world W o ud loea lot OF highly ingenious and
amusing and generally harmless fiction