The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
Theatres.
CHESTNUT STREET THEArRF.

Commencing Monday Matinee, April 4.
Thomas Jefferson will present the
acknowledged foremost dramatic classics
OF the American stage, rip Van Wrinkle. I"
at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadel-
phla. In this production the full strength
OF the Orpheum Company will lend their
excellent support. For generations
parents have told their children the story
OF Rip Van Wrinkle, of how he went to
sleep one night on the Katskill mountains
after drinking with Henrik Hudson,s
ghost and did not awaken for twenty
years; waking to find his wife married to
the man who aided him to become a
drunkard, gradually reducing him to
Deggary. 1t is an interesting story. one
which never grows old, one which the
young and old will go to see every time
It is played. There is touching pathos
intermingled with the comedy, for the
latter IS confined to the first three acts:
the last two acts are pathetic, ending,
though, in the restoration of Rip to
family and fortune. That the play
possesses SURPRISING merit is amply proven
by the length of time it has held the at
tentlon OF the public. Even the genius
OF the Jeffersons could not have for so
long time maintained popularity for a
III. j.
over seventeen thousand performances
have been given of rip Van Wrinkle, +" by
the members of the jefferson family. a
record never equalled by any stage pro-
duction in the history of the world.
Thomas Jefferson has been playing rip"
now for over twelve years, and he is
happily endowed by nature to succeed his
great ancestors. He gives a splendidly
sustained characterization which possesses
certain elements of strength and power
that belong to the Jefferson individuality
alone. Rip Van Wrinkle" is a play
every one should witness, and the daily
matinees afford women and children
splendid opportunity to see Thomas
Jefferson as RIP Week April sd.
CHESTNUT STREET OPERA HousE.
Next Monday will usher in at the
be termed '"The Homecoming of The
Arcadians,' :" for that delightful musical
comedy which had its American premiere
Ill Philadelphia at the Forrest Theatre on
December 28, 1910, returns to that city
for limited engagement, with several
records to its credit. In the first place,
The Arcadians" has played continuously
ever since it first won the applause of the
public and the critics in Philadelphia.
From there, Charles Frohman's wonder.
full organization went to New York CITY
where its success was so enormous that il
had to be sent first from the Liberty
Theatre to the Knickerbocker, and then
from the Knickerbocher to the New York
Theatre in order to make way for attrac-
tons that had been booked at these houses
long ahead. After nearly year in New
York city, "The Arcadians" with its re.
markable cast still intact, had to interrupt
a IT cord Metropolitan run in order to fl
nine weeks engagement in Boston, q
six weeks engagement in Chicago and
visits to half dozen other of the biggest
cities of the east and middle west. "The
Arcadians" returns to Philadelphia with
an additional record of holding together
such brilliant combination of stars fol
so long time. Frank Moulan. Iulis
Sanderson, Percival knight, Alan Nude
Ethel Cadman, Mary Mackin and the
other men and women who make the pro
Junction notable, together with the big
wonderful chorus that made the stage
pictures delight, will again be seen
latter the Philadelphia engagement "Ths
Arcadians' will return to New York tc
renew its triumphs there. While the
American production of 1.-THE Arcadians'
has made a record for success here, it il
worthy of note that the London produc
ton is now nearing its 8ooth performance
at the Shaftesbury Theatre. During the
engagement at the Chestnut Street Opera
House the price for the best seats will not
exceed $3.50 for the evenings and at the
Wednesday and Saturday matinees. The
present engagement is for two weeks
only