The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-10

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE

One OF the most daring managerial
ventures ever undertaken in this country
is the concert tour enlisting the services
of Madame Melba, Jan Kubelick, Ed
ward Burke, the Irish Canadian Bari
tone, Gabriel Lapierre, pianist and
Marcel Moyse, fiautist. In round num-
bers the tour will represent about $780,
600 gross. Loudon Charlton is mana
ging this important attraction, the con-
tracts having been let through the Lon
don firm of SchultZ-Curtius and Powell.
81 should be proud to announce Madame
Melba or Mr.. Kubelick alone, as either
is capacity attraction, says Mr. Charl-
ton. ''To present them jointly is
managerial privilege over which | am
especially gratified." 1t is three years
since Madame Melba last sang in the
United States. Since then she has been
touring the English provinces, devoting
most of her time to her own opera COM
pany in Australia where she is universal
favorite. Madame Melba has high
record for the artistic accomplishments
of Mr.. Burke and it was by her request
that he was included as the third men,
Der of this trio of stars. Mr.. kubelik
made his last tour of the United States
during the season l911-l2 having played
before capacity houses throughout the
country. Lapierre, the pianist, and
Moyse, the fiautist, were selected as the
accompanies for this tour because of
their artistic fitness and round out a
combination that is well nigh unap-
proachable. Philadelphia position as
a musical centre of the first importance
will enable the admirers of these super
lative artists to participate in the pleas
ure which the country at large is enjoy
in n mn inf, no tod
at the Metropolitan Opera House on
Tuesday evening, February oath, under
the Philadelphia management of Rob-
ert p. Strine. No event in America s
musical history has met with greater
success than the Melba-Kubeli tour
Melba is unquestionably the vocal star
of the world, of a magnitude that adj
mits of no rivalry. Mail orders for this
appearance from Philadelphia and out
of town points are now being received
at Metropolitan Opera House ticket
Office, 1109 Chestnut St., where they
will be filed in the order of their receipt
The public sale will open at the same
place on Thursday, February r. The
prices for the engagement have been
fixed at So, $3.50, So, $3.50 and 81 with
box seats at 81 and $3.50. Make remit
tances payable to r. p. Strine. ad
THE ORPHEUM PLAYERS
No dramatic offering of the year was
awaited with higher expectation than
the performance yesterday of 1.-The Man
inside by b. f. Keith's Orpheum PLAY
ers at the Chestnut Street Opera House,
Philadelphia. The play was David Be-
lasco's big winner this season on Broad
way and came direct to Philadelphia
without having been seen in any other
city of the United States except the
metropolis.
The story of the play is this: A young
deputy assistant, Richard Gordon, in the
District Attorneys office, is impressed
by the number of men sent to prison
who revert to crime as soon as released.
He feels that imprisonment as a means
of reformation is worthless. In his effort
to determine the cause of crime, he
visits the underworld, and while in an
opium joint his sympathies are enlisted
in behalf of ANNIE" the daughter of
RED Mike" under arrest for forgery.
In his effort to help her, Gordon becomes
a criminal himself. Made to realize the
fact he deduces the cause of crime from
his own experience, and in applying
this discovery to himself stimulates
annie" to find her soul and lover to
make the great sacrifice necessary to
save her. Thus. although the guilty
escape, good comes of the situation be-
cause the conscience of desperate is
awakened
Berton Churchill will be seen as big
Frank" and Adelaide Keim as annie"
daughter of "Red Mike. Lynne Over
man will appear as Josh Reyes" and
George w. Barber as ''Red Nike him
self, Ralph Renley is cast for Pop
Odds" and Genevieve Cliffe as Maggie,
a dope fiend. Many other small roles
will contribute to the atmosphere OF the
underworld which is most realistically
produced in the opium den scene. ad