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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1918
Page
6
Arthur Ashley stars as the wild youth in The Man Who Came Back at Plymouth Theatre. Laura Walker remains the reading lady with the rest of the cast unchanged. The show drew an enthusiastic reception and Ashley replaces Henry Vall in the principal role.
The Shubert Theatre continues the melodrama The Rape of Belgium with a strong cast led by John Mason Conway Tearle and Olive Wyndham. Producer A. H. Woods presents stirring incidents that engage a large Boston audience. Engagement in Boston ends next Saturday evening.
George M. Cohan presents a merry tuneful revue at the Colonial Theatre last night. Nora Bayes headlined the extravaganza featuring about 125 performers, with lively numbers and spirited crowd response.
The review praises a lively burlesque by Mr. Cohan featuring parodies of Belasco Zeigfeld and stars like Mrs Fiske Barrymore and Ditrichstein. It highlights musical numbers, Irving Berlin contributions, Bayes impressions, and a grand finale with striking black and white scenery. The piece concludes as probably the best show of its kind Boston has seen.
Park Theatre presents Harold Lockwood in Landloper as headliner with Frank Sweeney in The Coward. Soriero wins the bill arranged by Thom as TD. Keystone comedy and Pathe Weekly boost the program plus an overture by Park Symphony Orchestra. Overture is heard at home via telephone.
Grace La Rue headlined at B F Keiths Theatre with Cherry Blossom Land and Duane Bassett on piano. Acts included Camouflage by Ileari de Vries, The Pest House with Imhof Conn and Coreene, Be fore and After Marriage by Gardner and Hartmann, Venita Gould impersonations, A Chinese Circus with Gillian and Newell, Finks mules Jim Dumps, the Mystic Hanson Trio and the Magic Man with his Maids, plus newsreels.
The Gayety Theatre presents a top burlesque program led by Al Reeves who boasts of his birth on every spoke of the No. 1 wheel. Dave Lewis stars as the leading comedian with strong support from Miss Gibson and Miss Jean Leighton. The Big Four Quartette and Red Halliday with the Wood sisters headline a lively revue praised for humor, song, and dance.
The Washington Theatre screens Nancy Comes Home with Myrtle Lind. Edith Storey leads The Claim, a breezy plains drama. Thursday to Saturday Pauline Starke appears in Innocent's Progress, a country girl story, with Charles Ray in The Family Skeleton.
The Old South Theatre screens The Answer starring Alma Rubens this week in a heart gripping photo drama of high merit. John Barrymore appears in Raffles the Amateur Cracksman. Myrtle Lind stars in Nancy Comes Home and Edith Storey in The Claim on Thursday Friday and Saturday.
The Lancaster Theatre runs Broadway Bill headlining the week with Harold Wockwood leading. Peggy Hyland stars in The Debt of Honor. Thursday adds On the Level with Fannie Ward and My Wife with Ann Murdock, expanding the bill.
Walden's Casino patrons enjoy a superior show this week titled Maids of America. Headlining are two Boston comedians Al K. Hall and Bobby Barry, supported by Florence Rother Joe Weston and Al faretta Symonds with a capable chorus and a lineup including Harvey Brooks Mae Stanley Clarence Jennings Joseph Stool and Lew King.
The week at Gordon's Olympia features Gordon's Olympia Mary Pickford in Amarillo of Clothes Line Alley and a winner with engaging fire and gas trench scenes from U S war pictures. Vaudeville includes Navassar girls musicians Trojan Art Models Nora Allen Isabelle Miller and company in The Star Boarder Detzel and Carroll in comedy singing and dancing along with Olympia News Weekly and other fine pictures.
This is the final week of the photoplay Kaiser the Beast of Berlin at Globe Theatre. The film portrays William Hohenzollern before and during the war, offering a dramatized historical portrait.
The Howard Atheneum offered a lively burlesque yesterday titled Delivering the Goods. The Witters company featured 20 girls in bright costumes with Harry Lang in the lead comedy role assisted by Dolly Sweet and others including Dolly Meaden, Billie More, Clayton Frye, Russell Hill, and Martin Pollock. Living art models and the Uncle Sam Battleship scene drew attention along with Tokey Japs vaudeville and acts Pauli and Boyne Parshleys Shaw Beatty Art La Fleur and Dorothy Curtis.
The first half of the week at the Orpheum Theatre presents a musical comedy by James Gildea and 10 performers, Parsons and Irwin in A Message from the Front, George Barbiere and company in Clubs Are Trumps, Rose Berry in a pianologue, and McConnell and Austin in a cycling act. Motion pictures include Today with Florence Reed, the News Pictorial, and a comedy. On Thursday the program adds the American Comedy Four, Hugh Norton and company in Officer 444, Clinton and Rooney, Frank and Milt Britton, the four Rennee girls, and the photoplay Mother.
This week at the Boston Theatre features The Unbeliever. A film drawn from The Three Things by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews stars Marguerite Courtot and Raymond McKee. Supporting players include Darwinn Karr Eric von Stroheim and others. The vaudeville lineup includes The Corner Store Louis Brocade a dance duo and more plus news pictures.
Douglas Fairbanks headlines at Bowdoin Square Theatre in Steadin South with Mexican Greasers and action sequences. Also shows The Cloven Tongue with Natalia Lesienko from Moscow Art Theatre and the first Woman in the Web episode by Cyrus Townsend Brady. The Mack Sennett Kitchen Lady impresses, Animated News Weekly screens, and vaudeville features Jim Doherty and others. Next week Mary Pickford stars in Amarilly of Clothesline Alley.
The Castle Square programme features Miss Kate Ryan performing a live monologue and character sketch, with a lively Irish song and dance medley titled In Willarney. Also on bill are Jack Pickford in Huck and Tom Fatty Arbuckle in The Bell Boy Emmy Whelan in The Shell Game and future bookings include Charles Ray in The Family Skeleton Louise Glaum in An Alien Enemy and a Billy West comedy.
The current week at St James Theatre features Buzzell and Parker in Have Your Picture Taken, Bobby Carroll and company in The Merchant Prince, Anita Diaz and her monkeys, and the Dancing Kennedys, with Mary Pickford in Amarilly of Clothes Line Alley and a News Pictorial. On Thursday the bill adds Clay Crauth in Oh You Devil, Frances Rice Saxton and Farrell in Troubles of An Actress, plus McCloud and Carp, Jim and Annie Francis and Nazimova in Revelation.
Exeter Street Theatre presents Ann Pennington in Sunshine Nan Constance Talmadge in The Shuttle Mary Pickford in Arm in Armilly of Clothesline Alley Mabel Normand in The Floor Below Pathe News Sidney Drew and Strand Comics showings listed for the week with program notes.
Final week at the Wilbur Theatre for William Gillette in A Successful Calamity. The charming comedy has delighted Bostonians for weeks and showcases his versatile stage skill. On Monday Sidney Drew returns with a new comedy Keep Her Smiling.
Park Square Theatre presents Cheating Cheaters to large houses with Hileen Huban James C Marlowe Edward Ellis Annie Sutherland and Frank Monroe in a brisk performance. The show has drawn popular favor from its Boston debut and promises an extended engagement.
The Modern Theater presents Elsie Ferguson in The Lie and One More American with George Be ban in the lead. The program also includes short comedies and news pictures this week.
The Huntington Avenue Theatre presented a triple bill yesterday led by Edith Storey W. Hart and Winifred Allen in three photoplays. The program will hold over today and tomorrow features Tom Mix in Six-Shooter Andy and Pauline Frederick in The Love That Lives. Friday and Saturday showcase Carlyle Blackwell and June Elvidge in The Way Out and Roy Stewart in Keith of the Border.
Franklin Park Theatre offers a rich program this week starting with Beauty and the Rogue featuring Mary Miles Minter. A Mack Sennett comedy A Clever Dummy plays alongside vaudeville acts P. George Skitchen Musical, De Lisle and Johnson, Hinkle and Mae, and McRae and Clegg. From Thursday Francis X Bushman and Beverly Bayne star in The Brass Check with top performances. Comedy pictures Pathe and a full vaudeville change also on the bill.
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