The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-19

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THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST"
THE Girl of the Golden West" will be
be produced by the Orpheum Players at
the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadel-
phia this week. This will be a very
notable production. 1t was put on the
stage by the Orpheum Players one or
two seasons ago and proved to be one of
the best drawing cards that was present
ed. There is an enormous royalty put
on this play by David Belasco, but the
Orpheum managers have made special
arrangements not only for the production
of the play, but for the services of one of
Mr.. Belasco's stage managers. Miss
Gertrude Dallas, who has been on a va
cation, has returned and will assume the
title role. Mr.. Mitchell Harris, the Or
pheum's new leading man, will play the
interesting part of the road agent, while
Edward E. Horton will be the Sheriff,
part that requires the best talent to fill.
1.-THE Girl of the Golden West" will al
ways be recognized as one of the greatest
American plays. Not only has it been
played for four years all over the cOun-
try, but it was used as theme for a
grand opera by Puccini, and as such was
sung throughout the civilized world. 1t
is a remarkable story of the love of girl
in a mountain camp for a road agent,
anu bH6 TeSclcIdNlOil bI1lS lON0
about to the man who has committed
offenses against the law. The first act
shows the barroom at the foot of Cloudy
Mountain. The Girl, for SO she is called
throughout the play, is shown as friend
of the gamblers, miners and half-breeds.
Among her admirers is Jack Rance,
sheriff and gambler, whose boast it is
that he always walks with his head
erect, and that he stands by the cyards."
The sheriff loves The Girl, and when he
proposes to her, she reminds him that
he is already married, with wife in
New Orleans. THAT makes no differ
ence,' says the sheriff. Marry me- my
wife won't know it," However, The
Girl does not marry the sheriff, for she
has learned to love Dick Johnson, who
in reality is Ramerrez, the notorious
road agent and highwayman. When
the sheriffs posse tracks the road agent
to her cabin on Cloudy Mountain, after
he had held up stage coach, The Girl
conceals the road agent. The sheriff is
positive that he had tracked the fugitive
correctly. Drops of blood reveal the hid
ing place of the road agent. The sheriff
is about to shoot the wounded man when
The Girl proposes that they play game
of poker If she wins, the road agent is
to go free; if she loses the sheriff is to take
both the road agent and herself. The
game begins, The Girl wins the first
hand. The sheriff wins the second. The
third and last hand is dealt, and the
sheriff picks up his cards triumphantly
for he has three kings. The Girl hides
her cards in her dress, and then
from her stocking pulls outa cold deck, !"
"a full house, three aces and pair of
deuces, which she had concealed in her
stocking all the time. Jack Rance, who
always stands by the cyards'' goes out
of the little cabin and leaves her free to
go with her lover, the road agent. The
last act shows the regeneration of the
road agent through the power of wo-
mans love, and there is a fitting finale
as the two stand on the top of the mount
ain, facing the rising sun, with the de
| termination to start life all over again.