The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-11-12
AT THE OPERA HOUSE.


lent Play Given by Home
Talent Tuesday Evening, All
Acting Well Their Parts and
Delighting a Large Audience.
For one reason and another it
has so happened lately that the
best shows at the Opera House
have been very poorly patroniz-
ed. Was she to Blame, which
appeared here some ten days ago,
was pronounced by those who
witnessed 1t as the best
show that has been here in a
blue moon, and only a handful
of people saw it; and Monday
evening another good show play
ed to a poor house. Everybody
who saw the performance given
by the Floyds was delighted.
Floyd, the magician, is an artist
in his line-is just about as
smooth an article as one ever
sees before the footlights. His
straightforward tricks were not
the cheap stunts that the average
so-called magician palms off on a
long-suffering public, but the
real thing that provokes the pro-
verbal nine-days' wonder, in
stead of making one go out and
administer a kicking to oneself
privately. And ''Mohala's" mind
reading stunts were above the
average, too. 1t is to be regrett-
ed that combination Of circum-
stances made the crowd much
smaller than it otherwise would
have been and smaller than the
| performance morited.
Union Depot: For q Day..
Here's where you pause, for that
is the play the town had been
| looking forward to for ten days
with intense interest. 1t was the
attraction at the Opera House
Tuesday evening and there was
nothing the matter with the
crowd that witnessed it. The
whole town was there -nearly
and as nearly everybody in the
audience had a wife or daughter
or son or sister or brother or
sweetheart or friend or enemy
among the ones who figured in
the play it had a long lead to
start with. That lead did a lot
toward getting the crowd, but
when the play once got started
it did not need any lead at all to
hold the interest and to delight:
it sailed right along on its own
merits, for it was all right, every
bit of it, and the audience was
immensely pleased. All the moth
ers' and fathers daughters and
sons in the cast can pat them
selves on the back-each one
patting herself or himself-Oh
shucks, this is gett. g terribly
mixed! ANY way, they are the
people; and they did themselves
right proud.
One hardly knows where to be.
gin. First off there was a bunch
of specialties to delight the eye
and ear. The first thing on the
programme, the 'ItaianChorus"
was rendered with a grace anC
charm that would put many
seasoned footlight artists to the
blush. Then came the Indiar
Chorus" and the Fan Drip by
little girls, both good, and the
comic Quartette. When all the
specialties were so good one hest
tates to comment especially or
any one, but the comic quartettt
compelsmOre than collective men
ton. When the curtain rose OF
that scene Mr.. 7. J. Moore, il
high hat and long coat, looking
every inch the sport he wa
dressed to represent, was stand
ing on the stage, and he face
: that audience of familiar face
and lifted up his voice in SON.
just like he had been doing stunt
! like that ever since he left hi
! mothers knee. And he san.
! sweetly as-as sweetly. Jus
: so. And then Miss Lesli
!. Proctor walked out quite mai
Z urally-when all is said, the hes
y acting is just holding the mil
J J ror up to nature, you know
and she and Mr. Moore wer
= through a singing dialogue thu
was all to the good and they di
} not seem to want to be disturbe
E at all when Mr.. A. T. Parme
u blew on the stage as a Dutchma1
Z Mr.. Parmele's makeup was e,
Il cellent and he has got the stun
. artists of the average travellir
/ show backed clean off the board
He was kilIingly funny witho1
II seeming to try to be so, ar
le everybody was ready to adm
3 the moment he came on the staI
y that he is an actor from w;
III back. Miss Critchfeld was Il
fourth addition to the quartet
T. and the singing and acting
u the four was pure delight. T
lh Mexican chorus and the table;
aS of little girls, both good, t
little girls beingespecially cute
rs brought the programme up
the play proper, which was dU
+ presented after a short int
w. mission which was beguiled
he music by the local orchestra.
I le After such good specialt
g everybody was prepared for
>, good play and there was no d
.te appointment in it's presentatit
!" 1t was we'll acted from start
~ finish. Miss Critchfeld, as M
y, Fishwell and Mrs. Garrulo
,Iy ,,,oc varv much in eVidel