The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
Theatres.
CHESTNUT STREET THEATRE.

THE Fourth Estate the sensational
hit of Chicago and New York's last
dramatic season, and the play Philade1-
phia has been waiting two years to see,
yesterday began the second week of its
presentation at the Chestnut Street
Theatre, Philadelphia. It is the original
production of Lieb1er & Company's pro-
dnction as presented for eight months at
Wallack's Theatre in New York and dur
lug long run in Chicago. and in its en-
tirety, the cast requiring the full strength
of the Orpheum Company, also several
members of the original cast, engaged be-
cause of the desire to present types in a
realistic manner. In the big scene in the
last act, members of the PHILADELPHIA
typographical union will be seen at work
IN the composing room of the newspaper
The Advance, . and the actual setting of
type by the linotype process will be the
feature of the incidental business. 1T
had been intended to present 1.-THE
Fourth Estate" at one of the houses con-
trolled by the Shuberts, but exigencies of
the booking system prevented this plans
fruition, SO it became the privilege of the
management of the. Chestnut Street
Theatre to obtain the rights to the origin
al production. Undoubtedly it is one of
the most ambitions presentations offered
by the Orpheum Company. There will
be the usual daily matinees during this
engagement, and the regular prices will
prevail.
CHESTNUT STREET OPERA HOUSE.
For the second week of their Spring
season of Grand Opera in English at
popular prices, Milton and Sargent Aborn
will offer Verdi's melodious 'Il Trova-
tore favorite of long standing, which
has not lost any of its popularity, bat
rather seems to increase in vogue by
repetition. This opera has registered
some of the largest audiences ever drawn
in Philadelphia in the past, and when
Messrs Aborn inaugurated the system of
voting by mailing cards, this opera was
among the four or five works receiving
the largest number of votes from Phila-
delphia music lovers; hence its selection
for presentation next week The same
adequate production with which this opera
has been given in other cities will be
brought to Philadelphia, and another con-
tingent of noted principal artists will
come to fill the roles of IN Trovatore. !"
In the role of Leonora, Jane Abercrombie
and Blanche Rae Edwards will divide the
eight performances of the week. Louise
LIE Baron and Marie Louise Rogers will
appear at alternate performances in the
contralto role of Azucena. The two
tenors to appear in turn as Maurice are
Leonid. Samolof and Paul Bleyden. Harry
Luckstone, baritone, will be the Count di
Luna, and Conte EMO Bozzane, the Fer
rando at all performances. Hugo Riesen-
field, conductor who formerly held the
baton at Hammerstein' Manhattan Opera
House, New York, will conduct at all
performances, and Edward P. Temple will
direct the staging of I'll Trovatore" For
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ginning Monday, May s, the offering will
be Massenet's most famous opera,
ssThais, which is now being presented
by the Aborn forces for the first time any
where in the English language. Messrs.
Aboron announce this as one of the most
important events of their career, and on
account of this they have made an elabor-
ate production of this work at the Boston
Opera House. The entire equipment of
scenery and costumes presented last week
in Boston and this week at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, will be brought to
Philadelphia intact, as will also the COM
plete cast including Lois Ewell, Edith
Helena, Lila Robson, Mischa Ferenzo,
Giuseppe Picco, Louis Kriedler, George
Shields, Laura Terrell, Frederick Chap
man and others. The scale of prices for
the Spring Season of Grand Opera in
day matinees, 2Sc to 81; Wednesday
matinees, 25c to 75c.
FORREST THEATRE, PHILADELPHIA
An important event in this seasons
theatricals will be the presentation at the
Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, beginning
Monday evening, May Ist, of Victor Her
bert,s latest composition, the song play
ssWhen Sweet Sixteen. The book and
lyrics were written by George v. Hobart.
The novel description song play" has
been given to when Sweet Sixteen" for
the reason that it is all that the title inn
plies-itsis charming comedy with CO.
herent plot. plausible situations, interest
ing story and dainty love scenes, embell-
ished with Victor Herbertis delightful
compositions. Musical attractions of the
lin.s of ssWhen Sweet Sixteen" are receiy-