The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-10
Theatres.
CHEsrNUT STREET. OpERA HoUs

CHESTNUT STREET. OPERA HOUSE
The Orpheum Players at b. f. Keith s
Chestnut Street Opera House have re-
peatedly demonstrated their ability to
play character comedy, but the real test
of their skill in that direction will be
with ''Bunty Pulls the Strings during
this week. A genuine Scotch company
offered the charming comedy in this
city last season, but the Orpheum Play
ers are more than willing to invite COM
parison, especially as several members
of the organization are Scotch them
selves. The scene is laid in little
Hei land village, dominated as usual by
the kirk, and the story hinges upon Miss
Bunty Bigger's extraordinary ability as
a manager. 1t is in the daV before
women have been recognized as respon-
sible beings, but before the curtain falls
every one in the piece is willing to admit
that Bunty is the real member of the
family. OF course there is Tammas
Biggar, the father-a stern and (suppos-
edly) upright pillar of society and par
ent who insists upon the strictest obedi-
ence to his authority. And there is
Rab, the brother, who has MT the diplo-
macy to conceal his sense of humor and
is always getting into hot water through
his desire to see city life in ''Glasgie"
Weelum is Bunty's betrothed, and
very serious minded young man who, in
the second act, achieves the height of his
ambition by standing at the plate" in
the kirkyard. A visitor at the Biggar
home, Susie Simpson, rather hurls her
self at Tammas' head at the beginning
of the play and practically has him
''hooked" because Tammas has used
some of her money in ways that he
should MT. At this juncture Ellen APP
pears on the scene, Ellen being an early
love of Tammas' and one who has been
left, as it were, waiting at the church.
OF course this is a terrible mess, particu-
larly as Weelum is about to stand at the
plate, and scandal threatens to shake
the village to its foundations when
Bunty-quiet, smiling, efficient Bunty-
steps in, puts everyone in his or her
place and in no time at all sets every
thing to rights. incidentally she
straightens out Rab's affairs, financial
and amatory, and not only rescues her
father from the clutches of the law but
brings him to his own senses about his
own family.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE.
1.-THE WHIP"
Drury Lane melodrama of the most
lurid type fairly pulls tremendous audi
ences of supposedly bIase Philadelphians
from their seats every night at the
Metropolitan Opera House, Philadel-
phia. II would require eye and ear test
imony really to convince anybody who
has not attended a performance of ''The
Whip" just how wild-eyed and frantic a
white shirted and evening dressed
gathering can act under the stress of
honest primitive emotion. The tumult
of applause following the sensational
wreck of the Newmarket Express and
the rescue of the race horse THE Whip"
from certain destruction, is simply pam
demonium. Shrewd writer's and pro-
ducers have shown more and more of
recent days their well-founded belief
that melodrama rises supreme over
vaunted theatrical taste and worldly
wisdom. Women scream until it seems
their nerves must crack, and men in
dress coats clutch the arms of their
chairs during the many thrilling mo-
ments of 1.-The Whip" Among them
are horse race, the train. wreck already
mentioned; a scene at Madame Tussaud's
Wax Works, in the Chamber of Horrors:
gathering of the Beverly Hunt; the
horse show; the paddock at the race
course and the Falconhurst kennels,
where the hero lunges over an embank-
ment in runaway automobile. OF
course you can forecast every outcome,
but the drama is admirably sustained
and the acting by an English company
uncommonly good. There are four acts
and thirteen scenes, which are changed
with amazing rapidity, and the waits
are delightfully."- short. adv.
ACADEMY OF Music, PHILADELPHIA.
Commander Evans to Lecture Here. Z"
Commander Evans of the South Polar
Expedition, will give an illustrated lee
ture in the Academy of Music, PhiIadel-
phia, ON Monday evening, March 23rd,
on Capt. Scott's Discovery of the South
Pole" under the auspices of the Geo
graphical Society of Philadelphia. Honor
that would have been given Scott is be-
ing paid to Evans, as his second in COM
mand. Evans modesty has prevented
his own part in the expedition being
known, and especially as ii was Evans
who wrote and sent to the world the
news of SCOTS fate. Evans was the
trail breaker, and had command of the
supporting parties. His party was the
last one to leave Scott, and it did not do
SO until 81 degrees south latitude was
Oh his FAMOUS
dash only reached IS degrees south. so
Evans himself nearly equalled Shackle-
toms record, and was but degrees from
the Pole. Commander Evans was the
last man to see Scott alive. His own
trip was almost as heroic as SCOTS.
Taken with the scurvy, he implored his
two companions to leave him and save
themselves. Butthey would not and
riSked their own lives to save their com
mander. They showed the same loyalty
that kept Scott from abandoning his
sick comrades, which resulted in his
own tragic end. Evans first American
lecture will be given before the National
Geographical Society in Washington,
on March 18th. Evans lectured on jan
uarv 9th for President Poincare, of
France, in Paris. Evans has photo
graphs by Herbert q. Pointing, and also
by DR.. f. A. Wilson, the latters being
taken on the polar dash and were found
with the bodies. There will also be
shown the remarkable moving pictures