B. F. Keith’s Theatre 
One of the strongest vaudeville 
bills of the year is announced for 
next week at B. F. Keith’s Theatre, 
headed by Harry von Tilzer and 
Taylor Granville’s ‘‘The Hold Up.’’ 
Mr. von Tilzer is one of the cleverest 
and best known composers of pop- 
ular songs in the world. He comes 
to Boston with a repertoire of 
brand new selections that have 
never before been sung in this city. 
The spectacular feature of the week 
will be supplied by Taylor Gran- 
ville’s great drama of railroad life 
in the Southwest, entitled ‘‘The 
Hold Up.’’ This production is one 
of the big things of the year in 
vaudeville. The action takes place 
in a lonely telegraph station on the 
Denver and Rio Grande R.R._ lo- 
cated in the heart of the Arizona 
Desert, and sixty miles from the 
nearest human habitation. The 
scenic effects are simply immense. 
A huge cyclorama representing the 
alkali desert by moonlight is intro- 
duced, and the train effects showing 
a 150-ton freight mogul crawling 
across the desert with a long string 
of freight cars and the mile a min- 
ute rush of the roaring, dust- 
enveloping limited express past the 
station where two men are engaged 
in a desperate hand to hand struggle 
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for life, surpass anything of the 
kind ever seen on the stage. Only 
three players appear in the piece, 
but no less than thirty stage hands 
are required to manipulate the 
great effects. Other big features 
will be Edmund Hayes & Co., in 
‘“‘The Piano mover’’; Howard’s 
Ponies; Those French Girls; Kauf- 
mann Brothers; Grace Freeman and 
others. 
‘‘ Ben-Hur ’’ at the Boston Theatre 
With the use of every device 
known to modern stagecraft to pro- 
duce a pageant the like of which 
has never before been seen in this 
country ‘‘Ben-Hur’’ is on its way 
to scoring the greatest success at 
the Boston Theatre that has yet 
been known in that historic play- 
house. Painters, stage artisans and 
costumers have accomplished won- 
ders in this line before, but it has 
been the unanimous verdict of the 
thousands who have seen Klaw & 
Erlanger’s new and greater produc- 
tion during the past two weeks that 
the high water mark has been 
reached and that it will be many 
years before a spectacle even ap- 
proaching it in grandeur will ever 
be seen again. In fact it may be 
truly said that the real atmosphere 
of the Holy land in the time of the 
Messiah has been faithfully repro- 
duced and that every detail of the 
book, with the exception of the 
Crucifixion chapter, has been fol- 
lowed out exactly as laid down in 
Gen. Lew Wallace’s wonderful tale. 
The chariot race has been so im- 
proved that it is wonderfully realis- 
tic and it is hard to imagine that the 
20 horses in 5 quadruple spans rush- 
ing madly on the stage are not in 
truth engaged in a neck to neck race 
in the Antioch arena, and that the 
shouts from the multitudes are not 
in reality those of the mingled Ro- 
mans, Jews and Egyptians cheering 
their respective champions on to vic- 
tory. In fact it is difficult for those 
in the audience when the race is 
over and Ben-Hur is proclaimed the 
winner that they have not been in 
truth present at one of the soul- 
stirring exhibitions in the time of 
the Caesars. 
The production bids fair to be at 
the Boston Theatre for some time to 
come. 
People who do not like the coun- 
try because there is so little going 
on, are those in whose heads there 
is less going on than even in the 
country. 
Don’t stand too much on your 
dignity—you might slip and fall. 
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