The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-09-30
Theatres.

CHESTNUT STREET THEATRE, PHILA
TIME Orpheum Players at the Chest
nut Street Theatre have selected a
lively French farce for next week s
production. This is 1.-THE Girl in the
Taxi" the celebrated farce comedy
which created such furere two seasons
ago in New York. Although of French
extraction, the management desire to
call attention to the fact that the play is
clean and wholesome although little
lively at times. 1t is a story of several
sets of gay men, young and old who
like to frivol in; the vicinity of the all
night restaurants of Broadway, having
dashing escapades with fascinating
actresses.
The central figure of 'sThe Girl in the
Taxi is the girl herself, Mignon. In
private life she is the wife of highly
respectable manufacturer of perfumes
who lives in New Jersey and when her
husband, who is Colonel of the Ma
tional Guard, is ordered to camp once
each year, she goes to New York deter
mined to have a gay time. Through an
adventure with young BERTHE Stewart, a
young chap of twenty, she becomes
known as '"rhe Girl in the Taxi" al
though no one can find out her identity.
She is introduced to three different per-
sons under three different names. All
three go out to make a night of it, and
meet at famous Broadway restaurant,
where they are surprised by the girls
husband. The complications that ensue
are highly amazing and a trifle risque,
but there is nothing to offend the taste
of the most fastidious. After a series of
highly diverting instances, the COM
plications are Strengthened out, but not
until the Colonel of the National Guard
has returned Unexpectedly to New York
in order to find his wife. His arrival
creates CONSERVATION, and there is much
hiding behind screens and in closets,
but the fiery Colonel does not believe in
fireworks.
ACADEMY OF Music, PHILADELPHIA.
For the first time in four years, local
music lovers will have an opportunity
this fall to hear Madame Melba, acknow-
lodged the greatest soprano of the day,
her transcontinental tour which opens in
Toranto, Canada, on September %, and
closes in New York with return engage
ment late in the spring. Madame Melba
will appear in recital at the Academy of
Music, Philadelphia, on Thursday even
ing, October %. Fresh from repeated
triumphs in the capitals of Europe, Mel
ba will sing in Philadelphia early in
what promises to be the most triumph
ant transcontinental tour of her twenty
five years in concert. Her present tour
brings her to America for the first time
in three years and to Philadelphia for
the first time in four years. Without a
dissenting voice Melba is acknowledged
the finest soprano of this generation.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, of Scotch
parentage, Melba experienced strong OPP
position at home to her determination to
go on the operatic stage. One of her first
efforts to give concert under her own
management was baked by little trip
her father made among the neighbors
asking them not to attend. Melba,
gave her concert to two
children of her own age. Like many
other singers of fame, Nine Melba's
wonderful voice was not appreciated by
several of her early masters. When she
finally sung for Mime. Marchesi, the
greatest vocal teacher in the history OF
music, she was greeted with the exclama
lion TAT last have found star" From