The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-17
Theatres.

CHESTNUT STREET OPERA HOUSE
oRPHEUM PLAYERS-''OvER NIGHT"
The thousands of patrons who have SO
favorably judged b. F. Keith's Orpheum
Players will have an opportunity this
week to enjoy them in a rollicking farce
for Philip Bartholomae's "Over Night
will be the offering at the Chestnut
Street Opera House. The week will be
of special interest, as it marks the re-
turn of Helen Reimer, one of the most
beloved of the Orpheum favorites, and
after the matinee today, Miss Reimer
will hold a reception on the stage at
which she will meet her many Philadel-
phia friends and introduce the newer
members of the company.
Two freshly married couples Mr.. and
Mrs. Darling and Mr.. and Mrs. Kettle
are the principal figures of the play
which starts as they are about to leave
on the bridal tours by way of a Hudson
river boat.
In the Kettle family it is Mrs. Kettle
who wears the trousers, but in the Oar
ling household hubby is boss. Naturally
it is these two who are so busy with bag
gage arrangements that they get left at
the dock as the Henrick Hudson draws
into the stream. Sweet little Mrs. Darl-
ing and dear little Mr.. Kettle, of course,
are the sole bridal couple left aboard
only they are not each others bridal
couple. They attempt to make the best
of it, dine together and all that, but at
the first landing they leave the boat
expecting to take the train back to New
York and meet their respective spouses.
Unfortunately circumstances oblige
them to remain over night and register
as man and wife though they take
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are not violated.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
THE WHIP"
THE Whip" the big Drury Lane
melodrama coming to the Metropolitan
Opare House, Philadelphia, starting
Saturday, March It'll, is an exciting play
of love and adventure that grips the
auditors from start to finish. The stage
at the Metropolitan Opera House is at
this early date being placed in readiness
to meet the requirements of this thriller
which has been imported intact from
London. Thirteen complete stage set
tings are required for as many scenes, a
dozen huge treadmills and five electric
driven panoramas are employed for the
race scene, while real tracks, locomotives
and rolling stock are essential for the
sensational collision. Two trains are
shown running at full speed in plain
sight of the audience. The rear car is
detached from the first train and comes
to standstill at the entrance to tun-
mel directly in the path of the following
express. The latter crashes into the car
and is shattered into a mighty wreck,
| lit up by lurid flames and shrouded in
mist of steam from the bursted boiler
of the overturned locomotive. 1.-THE
Whip" is produced by Messrs. Brady,
Comstock and Gest. The play makes a
strong public appeal because of the
heart interest underlying its story, the
stirring action that characterizes its
development and the sensational eli
makes that punctuate it. These include
mounted hunt, an automobile acct
dent, railroad with real locomotives
and cars and horse race with dozen
former turf fayorites ridden by jockeys
of international reputation. 1t is all
human, genuinely exciting and inter-
esting. During the Philadelphia en-
gagement the prices will be 25c, SOC, 75c
81, $3.50. No higher. adv.
| The return engagement of Melba, in
concert with Kubelik, at the Metropoli-
tan opera house, Philadelphia, on Tues
day evening of next week, is attracting
much attention and orders for seats are
going fast. The present tour, the grand
triumph of concert giving during all its
history, presents the astonishing fact
that Nellie Melba, the idolof two genera
tions has only now reached the great
climax of her career. Melba has passed
the youthful stage and frankly assumes
the manner and bearing of a dignified
matron-but her wonderful glorious art,
the purest and most delightful voicing
of sounds, seems to have stepped the
other way and has taken on new youth,
new brilliancy, new flexibility, until this
glorious cantatrice has more than ever
; become the idol of those who love beauti-
full sounds. Indeed, the Melba of to-day
is so glowing with ardor, so filled with
the impassioned spirit of her song as tC
seem reincarnated Melba. The worst
her critics could ever say of Melba, was
that she seemed cold. When one takes
into consideration her nativity, the
cause is found. Melba is of pure Scotch
parentage and Scotch is synonymous fol
cannieness and self repression. Perhaps
it is this very quality of seeming cold
ness that has kept brilliant and fiawles
I the beautiful voice of the greatest SINCE
of modern times. Melba, to-day, stand
l as the only perfect figure of woman kim
, who voices song. Her artistic statur,
has grown; even her most conservativ,
admirers are willing to believe that onl,
I now the climax has been reached.
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