The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-03-19
Theatres.


"a Social Pirate,' highly interesting
title of an intensely absorbing play, with
its undertow of a subtitle, or meaning of
1.-THE Skeleton in the Closet" will be
the presentation of the Orpheum Players
for the week commencing March 18th
AS much as we perhaps hate to admit it,
well do we know and accept the challenge
of Mr.. Sidney Cutting, the principal char
acter in "a Social Pirate''-you have a
skeleton In your closet We don't deny
1t, and even if we are of the belief that
this accusation is going bit too far, most
of us will not take the chance of allowing
Sidney Cutting to open our attic closet
door. 1t was on this theme that the
author found bountifu1 material on which
to build his delightful three-act caricature
on American society life in New York
City.
Society volcano pictured in this new
play. A few years ago the proud scions
of the first families of some of New York s
most exclusive uppermost were amazed
to find that few of the family secrets,
which they guarded more carefully than
the family Jewels, had leaked out and
were in the possession of one who by this
power made himself into a kind of social
car. Wherever he was seen people
tremb1ed, for it was never known Just
how much he knew. He exacted tribute
everywhere, and his commands we're
absolute. He moved in the highest social
circles with the sang froid of Napoleon.
Wherever he went people bowed at his
feet. 1t is even said he operated in Phila-
delphia.
In the Orpheum production of ga Social
Pirate" William Iugersoll will be seen as
Sidney Cutting, the social car, the in
vincible, who knows all about the inter-
esting family skeletons of New York's
s'Four Hundred"-a fellow with the
daring of d'Artagnan, the foolhardiness
of Don Quixote, the need1e-like wit of
Cryrano de Bergerac, and the romance of
Robin Hood. The woman he loves, Esther
Arbuckle, will be capably handled by
Miss Virginia Howell, and the boy who
Cutting saves from ruin at his own peril,
Burton Arbuckle, will be played by
Walter Lewis, who, by the way, is the
son of the famous Horace Lewis. The
rest of the cast will be in the care of the
other Orpheum favorites.
WALNUT STREET THEATRE, PHILA.
Trixie Friganza in "The Sweetest Girl
IN Paris, now in for run at the Walnut
Street Theatre, has made the biggest hit
of the season in Philadelphia. She is
company of fun makers, who have done
much toward furthering the unprecedented
popularity of this show, although "The
Sweetest Girl in Paris represents the
finest work of three noted writer's. The
book is by Addison Burkhart, who has
nearly dozen musical comedy hits to his
credit. The lyrics are from the pen of
Collins Davis, who turned the "Three
Twins" into a distinctive success, while
the music was composed by Joseph
Howard, who has written more popular
music than any man in America, and in
this instance has surprised his own most
widely known success ''The Time, the
place and the Girl, {" which had long run
at the Walnut a couple of seasons ago.
1.-THE Sweetest Girl in Paris" is brimful
of song hits that evolve naturally out of
the humorous complications and scenes of
the play. Among the most popular of
these are "Don't forget the number, y
which is one of the most popular songs
way that limitations look to me-" ''Goe,
I'm glad I'm fat" ''I love all the girls
from A to g." There's nothing too good
for you," 81 want man, an exceeding
" comic song rendered by Cathryn Rowe
Palmer, whose eccentric comedy dancing
has made a tremendous hit; weather
man s'Mary's Lama "Boys, boys,
boys" and ''The OSCILLATION bombashay, 4"
during which examples of Russian and
classic styles are introduced, and beauti-
full intermezzo, which opens the second
act, entitled 1.-THE Sweetest Girl in Paris. :"
These numbers are all staged with the
utmost lavishness and uniquensss, and