The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-04
0rpheum Players
at the
CHESTNUT STREET THEATRE

The present season of the Orpheun
Players gives evidence of one of the mos
extraordinary and praiseworthy sine,
their long career at the Chestnut, NOTABLY
so in the fact of the artistic production
and plays.
The diversified program of the futur,
will witness plays of most pronounced
success and merit.
'Barbara's Millions" comedy drama
by Paul M. Potter, founded on 'tLeBon.
heur, Mesdames" by the famous French
author, Francis de Croisset, and said tc
be his best work, is bound to please
everybody in the production for this
week, while for the week beginning the
10th, that bright, breezy comedy of David
H. Lloyd, and Sidney Rosenfeld, called
"Ihe Senator" play remembered as
one of the best of the repertoire of VIM.
H. Crane, will prove another of strong
interest. "Thelma," most attractively
play, is to follow on March 18th; and
starting Easter Monday, the 24th, the
famous success which Liebler & Company
presented in Philadelphia scoring one OF
the longest runs known here, and called
''The Man From Home" is to be given.
followed the 3Ist with the exquisite gem,
''Pomander Walk" And notably among
the most recent great plays for the week
of April 9TH, THE New SIM is promised
and is a play that has called forth as
much or more, comment for its originality
and interest than any work of the past
ten years. Other new, and revivals of the
best now before the public, will follow
throughout the year, and as is known
heretofore, the Orpheum Players will
follow their accustomed rule throughout
the summer.
FORREST THEATRE
Slipping into the theatre to see the
staircase waltz becomes a hobby every
where 'The Count of Luxembourg
plays. Everyone to try it as a popular
terpsichorean skip, but, IA the alarm
clock salesman once remarked, many are
called, but few get up
In ''The Merry Widow" waltz the dam
sci in the case tried her best to see how
near she could come to breaking her back,
while her partner, holding on for dear life,
assumed the look of a bank cashier,
meanwhile stepping like a blue ribbon
winner at the horseshow. In the 'Iuxem-
bourg" staircase waltz, on the other hand,
it appears as if the dancers try to see how
near they can come to breaking their
necks, and still get away with it
Withal it is the prettiest and daintiest
dance that has come to this CLINE in many
moons.
Along toward the end of the second act
of ''The Count of Luxembourg which is
now being played at the Forrest Theatre,
Philadelphia, Miss Ann Swinburne and
George Leon Moore start to singing "Are
you going to dance ?'' 1t is a foregone
conclusion that they are going to dance
for the stage is clear and the time for a
waltz is most opportune. After a short
warming up. the dancers work over
toward the stairway on the left Then
follows a quick reverse and while the
audience gasps they are up on one step
Every half turn, they climb higher. 1t
is almost an illusion to watch them, so
gracefully is it accomplished and SEEM
ingly with so little effort. Around and
around they COUP, up, up. As the stair
way curves slightly the difficulties are
increased. The dancers say that matter
of two inches or more to the step might
mean miss which would throw them
completely off their balance and off the
stairway as we'll. But they gain the top,
where they hesitate a moment and then
fairly shoot across the balcony to the
on the right. One might think
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There is tendency to hurry and then
the good old law of gravitation is at work.
In the play Mr.. Moore as "The Count
1oes not lead "Angele" (Miss Swinburne'
over the jumps, as the waltz has been
referred to, until he has discovered she is
his wife. They have been married with
out knowing each other, so at the first
opportunity she tests him. As Miss Swim
ourne says: IF young man can lead
Toung woman up and down a stairway
without mishap, 1 believe he ought to be
rusted. Legislative insistence that the !
lance should be daily done in every house |
lold by husband and wife ought to be one |
f the first laws advocated by prohibition
rs Husbands would certainly have to |
eep their heads Clear