The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-04-13
Theatres.
CHESTNUT STREET THEATRE.
1.-THE Prince Chan"

"The Prince Chap" will be presented
for the first time by the Orpheum Players
at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadel-
phia, this week. The play. with Cyril
Scott in the leading role, held the attenti ton
of audiences in every large city in the
country. The piece was written by Ed
ward Peple. "The Prince Chap" is senti
mental from beginning to end. There are
three distinct periods in the story. In the
first chapter William Peyton, an American
sculptor, situated in cheap lodgings In
London, finds the struggle hard, but is
buoyed up by the thought of his sweet
heart at home, Alice Travers Among
Peyton's models is young woman, who,
forsaken by her husband, is alone with a
little girl eight years old. Broken in
health and by diseases, Mrs. Airing
ton comes to the studio for shelter, and re-
alizing that her end is near, implores Pey-
ton to take care of her child Claudia.
PeYtcn promises to do SO, and with that
the unfortunate woman's last hours are
frightened. In the second act, three years
later, Claudia is still in his household, and
it is learned that Alice has married The
third chapter is seven years later Alice
returns, widow. She realizes the mis-
take she has made, but Peyton's love for
her is dead. And when she goes it sud-
denly dawns on him that Claudia is more
than child to him-she is his life and
soul. To William Ingersoll falls the part
of Peyton. The cast will also include
Marion Barney, who will play the Claudia
of the third act, and all the other Or
pheum Players. Percy Winters, under
whose directions the play will be present
ed, has engaged two girls to play Claudia
in the first and second acts.
The Washington Herald, of March
80, In its criticism of Edna Wallace Hop
per's presentation of George NJ. Cohan's
rural musical play. Fifty Miles from
Boston, which will be produced at the
Auditorium Theatre at Burlington, on
Saturday night, April II, said: " Fifty
Miles From Boston is melodious melo-
drama. Those who see it should keep In
mind the injunction George M. Cohan is
always impressing upon us, Don't take
me seriously. and they will spend an en-
joyable evening. There is a plot and a
villain and hero and heroine. and the
atmosphere is laid on with liberal brush.
The action takes place in pastoral Brook
field, whose sturdy inhabitants lead, per-
force, the simple life, milk the c,ws, lis
ten to the grass grow and fiirt. But prim-
ibtNC CAnOblOuo AAC 0Ot Mdnb Wltulu buClI
breasts. Give them half chance and
these emotions will come to life, and there
will be something doing in rural Brook
field, with every kind of good regulation
stage type putting forth his best front.
Mr.. Conan gave them half chance, and
the result is the well-conceived, well-exe-
cuted story of the love of the Harvard
base ball player for the village postmis-
tress, of the crafty village dude who loves
the postmistress himself and is an accom-
plished liar, and leads on to her brother
stealing money from the post Office, this
same brother being possessed of as con-
vincing a crouch as was ever shown on
any stage. Of course, it all comes out
right and virtue is rewarded and vice pun
ished, and even Jed, the weak brother,
comes in for his share of the happy end
ing The members of the cast are given
plenty of opportunity to make them
selves and the dramatist ludicrous, but
exercise a commendable self-restraiht, and
for the most part act with admirable dis
erection. Miss Hopper qualities as charm
ing postmistress. and she is ably sup
ported