The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-15
CHESTNUT STREET THEATRE
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"GoinR soms''
Going Some" is truly the most be.
fitting expression to describe this four-act
comedy which will be at the Chestnut
Street Theatre, Philadelphia, this week.
The scenes are laid on "The FLYING
Heart Ranch" in New Mexico, and,
therefore, are artistically all that the
lover of picturesque could ask for. AL
though the action is in the West, there is
none of the usual thrill contained in it, it
being built strictly on comedy lines.
"Going Some" is based on the love the
cowboy has for the ranch that EMPLOYS
him, and the limits he will 90 to in
clarifying it and the love two col1egians
have for the same girl.
The boys of "Centipede Ranch" have a
cook named Skinner, who, as they say
can run 'jest leetle," and are not slow
in telling the boys of ''The Flying Heart
Ranch as to his abilities as a runner
''The Flying Heart Ranch" have in their
midst visitor by the name of J. Wa1ling-
f ord Speed, of Yale (Head Yeller), who is
smitten with Helen Blake, also visiting at
the "F1ying Heart Ranch" Speed knows
of Helen's admiration for an athlete and
immediately talks of his medals, won for
running.
The cowboys are anxious to win back
their photograph, lost on previous race,
from the "Centipede Ranch" and pro-
claim Speed their only hope and cham
pion. He must run and must win, no
excuses will do. They must have the
phonograph-the boys did miss it so. As
Willie, the bad man, says: He Jest did
love ter hear tibet especial favorite record
Madame o-seloe Melby sing The Holy
City, on the Columbia Photograph from
New York and Paris.''
Speed has never run race in his life,
while his opponent spends his spare time
running Jack rabbits to earth for amuse-
ment sake. Speed pretends to break his
leg and calls the race off the last moment,
but is invigorated by Willie and his .38
Colt. He is told he must win or ride home
in an ice cooler-there is no preference
To add to his troubles he is kept away
from all the girls, fed on raw meat to
make him wild, while his hated rival,
Berkeley Fresno native son and tenor
singer, entertains Helen with warb1ing
''Dearie' in accents sweet, and worst of
all, within hearing distance of Speed.
He encounters calamity upon calamity,
and his only hope is revealed when Skin
ner, "the feet O. foot, offers to sell the
race. The race comes off and Skinner, by
falling down two or three times manages
to let Speed win the phonograph. Speed
also wins Helen, and so all are satisfied
and the end is happy one.
AUDITORIUM THEATRE, BURLINGTON
1.-THE Thief"
Would you steal to make yourself pref
ty in the eyes of your husband2 That's
the question which is asked in "The
Thief" that powerful Charles Frohman
success which was produced at the Ly-
ceum Theatre, New York, crowding that
theatre to the doors for two solid seasons,
and which will appear at the Auditorium
Theatre, Burlington, on Wednesday night,
November IS.
It's a new idea, and it has distinct
dramatic value, for it is both thrilling to
women and fattering to men. Usually it
is the man who takes this risk to satisfy
the indulgences of his wife or his sweet
heart, but in the case of 1.-THE Thief
the tables are reversed and woman is
the central figure. That is the reason
why Bernstein's masterpiece of emotion
al playwriting grips the heart of the fair
sex and arouses discussions which last for
months after the piece has passed by.
Margaret Ellington, the actress who pre-
ferred to ''mend socks rather than con-
tinue on the STAGE and who has since
decided to give up the darning needle for
the grease-paint stick, created the role of
''The Thief" at the Lyceum Theatre. In
the present production, which is as COM
plete as the New York one in every de-
tail, Edna Archer Crawford, the only ac-
tress who has dared to follow Phoebe Da-
Wis in the star part of way Down East, 7"
will assume the role created by Miss IL
hngton. Miss Crawford will be support
ed by company of players every men,
Der of which was engaged for special
fitness in the character assigned.
1.-THE Blue Mouse,
1t is rather an odd circumstance that
male designers are fast supplanting women
in the architecture of costumes for the
fair sex. Where gowns of distinct and
new type are required it is ten to one that
man will be called in to create the style
or else pass judgment. The same rule
| applies to the creation of styles for theat-
rical productions. One of the latest ex-
amples of the male manner" is an al
! together convulsing farce by Clyde Fitch
called ''The Blue Mouse" which comes
to the Auditorium, Burlington, next Mon
day night, November III. Mr.. Fitch sell
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women and his latest play is not an ex-
ception.
He begins his riot of new-fangled styles
with THE Blue Mouse" herself Mr..
Fitch had fairly definite ideas of what the
character, Salome dancer should wear
but he frankly expressed his inability to
properly clothe the young person. This
was not due to the fact that 1.-THE Blue
Mouse" dances in the play but that Mr..
Fitch is not designer.
Melville Ellis, who has been seen in
vaudeville in pianologue, came to the res
cue, and has designed every costume seen
in the play. This, however, was not his
first experience. For several seasons Mr.
Ellis has travelled abroad for the purpose
of absorbing French ideas of dress in
order to incorporate the newest and pref
test effects in designs for the American