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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1917
Page
6
Governor McCall cabled the Russian Duma with Massachusetts greetings to the Russian democracy. The cablegram stated that Massachusetts, the oldest commonwealth in the new world, sends hearty greetings to the Petrograd Duma in Russia.
In New York a federal court panel found Captain Charles von Kleist of Hoboken and five ship officers guilty of conspiring to destroy steamers carrying food and munitions for the Entente by incendiary bombs. The men face up to two years. sentencing is set for Friday.
Henry T. Rainey of Carrollton Illinois ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee accepts an invitation to be mutual guest of the City of Boston and Bunker Hill Council Knights of Columbus at Ford Hall on Tuesday April 10 during the Knights 25th annual meeting.
A 20 inch gas main rupture at the People's Natural Gas Company station in Brave, 18 miles from Waynesburg, caused a blast that killed five workers and seriously injured five others. The explosion also ignited ten thousand gallons of gasoline and damaged the plant by about 50,000 dollars.
George Wiggin aged 67 of 247 River Street died at Gale Hospital after being scratched six weeks earlier by a cat. The infection from the scratch caused his condition to worsen until death occurred today.
Advertisement describes Annie Westbrook Howard of Boston returning to work at Shepard Norwell Co after severe rheumatoid pain. She credits Var-nesis with pain relief, improved mobility, and regained ability to climb stairs and walk. Brennan shows the drug at Liggett Riker Jaynes Drug Store in Washington at Hanover.
Edward A. W. Simmers, 67, a German native, was held on $20,000 bail in Camden New Jersey after being technically charged with threatening the life of President Wilson. A further hearing was set for Wednesday by U S Commissioner Joline. In default of bail, Simmers was remanded.
Philadelphia secret service operatives arrested Simmers last Saturday near Woodbine New Jersey where he worked as a scientific farmer. He allegedly opposed U.S. entry to war and said he would blow the President’s head off if he had a bomb. He cited Lincoln Garfield and McKinley as bullet targets and questioned Wilson. Born in Germany, he later lived in Montreal and Lancaster County and renounced naturalization after the war began. He became a British subject and was well educated.
Madrid reports drastic government action to quell a labor movement based on a manifesto signed by 26 labor heads. Arrests, closures of labor exchanges, and a royal decree suspend constitutional guarantees and impose martial law style censorship to prevent further unrest.
Dr W N Miner Republican won the Calais mayoral race by 111 votes over Lindsay O Sadler Democrat in the April 2 city election. Republicans carried six of seven wards. Robert J Murphy, Democratic Alderman candidate in Ward One, was defeated, ending six year Democratic representation in the Legislature from Calais.
A group of Back Bay young women trains in wireless telegraphy for Uncle Sam. The Active Corps section has seen rising interest after 2 percent first accepted. A 30 member unit has been accepted by the government for the Naval Coast Defence Corps.
Marlin of Boston University urged students to treat the European war as Americas own and said the nation should have prepared for 30 months. Mrs. James J. Storrow described women aiding the war effort through farming and making soldier supplies. Frank L. Locka of the YMCA and Prof. Samuel M. Waxman outlined tasks for young men.
This week at the Copley Theatre the Henry Jewett Players present a revival of The Passing of The Third Floor Back with Leon Gordon starring as the Stranger. Next week’s attraction will be She Stoops to Conquer.
Hollis Street Theatre ends its run of A Tailor Made Man with Grant Mitchell, Florence Shirley, and the company delivering clever lines and refined acting. On Easter Monday John Drew debuts Major Pendennis in the city, the first local presentation.
Theda Bara star attraction at Scollay Square Olympia yesterday with photo-play The Tiger Woman. Also screened The British War installment and Wrath from Seven Deadly Sins. Vaudeville features Marcella The Office Lady Armenians Rawson Trio and Walter James.
The Franklin Park Theatre features Mme Petrova in The Secret of Eve this week. The program also presents The Great Secret with Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne and vaudeville acts El zero Bella and Eva Morris Golden and Cumner and Shields.
Alma Hanlon stars in Pride and the Devil at the Modern Theatre this week. On the same bill George Beban performs The Bond Between a French characterization. The New York Bohemian art colony atmosphere is admirably depicted.
The current week at the New Beacon Theatre opens with Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl and Sessue Hayakawa in The Bottle Imp. An equally balanced lineup follows on Thursday Friday and Saturday with Fannie Ward in A School For Husbands.
The current week at Fenway Theatre features Pride as part of The Seven Deadly Sins program. Mrs Vernon Castle appears in Pa tria in another episode. Thursday adds Panthea starring Norma Talmadge and the 14th episode of The Great Secret will be shown.
Wilfred Lucas stars in A Love Sublime during the first half of the week. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne appear in The Great Secret. On Thursday through Saturday Enid Bennett headlines The Little Brother and Charles Richman performs The Secret Kingdom.
The Garden of Allah will premiere at the Boston Opera House next Monday night April 9 with stage settings surpassing prior efforts. A benefit for Business Manager Albert Lothian and Press Representative W. H. Walsh and associates, the event is expected to draw an overflow audience as seats opened briskly yesterday.
Nat M. Wills headlined with The Happy Tramp offering new stories songs and parodies. Violet Dale delivered impersonations of Mme Pavlova Nazimova and others. Valeria Bergere's Little Cherry Blossom scored a hit. Jack Wyatt's Scotch Lads and Lassies captivated crowds. Ralph Dunbar's Tennessee Ten introduced Boston's first original Jazz Band.
A large audience including Mystic Shrine members gathered at Castle Square Theatre to applaud the magician’s show marking the start of his second and final Boston week. Next week Miss Cecil Spooner presents My Irish Cinderella with Spooner in the title role.
Amelia Bingham returned to Rosston after two years at the Orpheum Theatre as the leading feature of a vaudeville bill. The program also featured Moran and Wheeler Norton and Earl Fred Webber and company the Tanean brothers the Valadons and Valentine's dogs with News Pictorial a comedy and the first run photoplay Babette on screen.
Charles Leonard Fletcher led the vaudeville bill at Loew's St. James Theatre yesterday. The program featured Harry Brooks and company, the six Musical Spillers, Walton and Delberg, and the Demetresen troupe of acrobats. The screen portion showed The Mystery of the Double Cross, a News Pictorial, a comedy, and the first run photo play Her Father's Keeper.
William S Hart appears in The Square Deal Man during the first half of the week at the Washington Theatre. John Emerson is featured in The Flying Torpedo. Francis X Bushman and Beverly Bayne star in The Great Secret. Douglas Fairbanks comes later in Flirting With Fate on Thursday to Saturday.
This week at the Park Theatre The Family Honor presents Robert Warwick and June Elvidge. The Hidden Children promises wholesomeness. Francis X Bushman and Beverly Bayne headline The Great Secret. Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew present The Awakening of Helena Minor in a comedy.
The Colonial Theatre hosts Military Night on Thursday as over 500 members of the Massachusetts National Guard attend. Brigadier-General Sweetser accepts the invitation for the guards. Joan the Woman is the current presentation on stage.
Charley Robinson drew crowds at the Howard Athenaeum with the Parisian Flirts as part of a vaudeville show. The act “The Midnight Elopers” drew sparkling mirth with standout turns by May Bernhardt and Gertrude Sommers. Other stars included Harry S. Le Van Jerry Fleming and Charley Edwards among a lineup of noted entertainers and eccentric acts.
Last night at the Plymouth Theatre a large audience saw Guy Bates Post star in The Masquerader adapted from Mrs. Thurston's novel. The drama centers on a man’s fall due to drugs and the rise of his double, with Post delivering strong dual performances.
Park Square Theatre continued its run of Fair and Warmer last night as the lenten week closes. The farce’s popularity rests on its clean, clever humor and Avery Hopwood’s best work, with Selwyn & Co. supplying an excellent cast.
The Shubert Theatre begins the final week of The Blue Paradise, a Viennese operetta starring Cecil Lean and company in Boston. On Monday the stage premieres Hall Caine's The Woman Thou Gavest Me with Mabel Taliaferro and Edmund Breese leading the cast.
The Wilbur Theatre in Boston hosts the second and final week of Miss Nordstroms farce He Said And She Beloved Him. Mary Young shines in the production. Monday introduces the Dolly sisters in His Bridal Night, a popular lively farce from other cities.
The Boston Theatre presents Theda Bara in Her Greatest Love as the week’s Fox feature. Mrs Vernon Castle stars in Patria a patriotic serial, plus A Merry Mix-Up and a topical revue. Vaudeville includes Frank Milton the DeLong sisters Natalie Morgan Libonati Reddington Grant and Pistel Cushing.
The Passion Play opened a week at Tremont Temple with large crowds at all four showings daily. A Boston quartet and organ provide an elaborate musical program accompanying the pictures with performances at 4 6 and 8 p m. daily this week.
An advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use hair darkening product. It promises quick, natural looking results by applying with a sponge or brush to strands. The copy stresses youth or attractiveness rather than medical effects.
The Theatrical Operating Company stages its standard attraction at Waldron's Casino all week headlined by Lew Hilton. Cast includes Bob Ferns Alice Lazar Patricia Baker Grace Seymour and Harry Mandel with a 28 girl chorus. The production features a Monte Carlo gold room replica and exclusive specialties including Savo the juggler.
The Seventh Sin ends the week’s photo plays at Gordons Olympia. The second instalment of the official motion pictures of the British war plays alongside. Vaudeville opens with Follow Me Girls starring Arthur De Voy and company. Also showing are the Excelsior Models novelty Brown and Hardy and Neil McKinley and company. The 14th episode of The Great Secret is screened.
The Loew's Globe Theatre continues to draw full houses with a week of film programs headlined by Mary Charleson in Satan's Private Door today Ella Hall in Polly Red head on Wednesday Alma Hanlon in The Law That Failed on Thursday Alice Brady in The Dancer's Peril on Friday and Amita Stewart in The More Excellent Way on Saturday.
Lancaster Theatre presents A Modern Cinderella and Money Mill in the first half of the week. Dorothy Kelly stars in Money Mill as short photo-plays, pictorial news, and an organ recital fill the rest of the program.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents The Passion Play as its main Lenten feature for the week followed by a strong vaudeville lineup. The program blends patriotism with acts from the Mysterious Waldo company Kaufman and Lillian Damon and others, plus The Great Secret with Francis X. Bushman and Leverly Bayne and Patria featuring Mrs Vernon Castle.
A vintage health ad promoting Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a liver and bowels remedy. It claims inactivity of liver and bowels causes a dull complexion and tired eyes and touts a vegetable compound with olive oil as a gentle, effective alternative to calomel. The tablets are sold in 10c and 25c boxes by all druggists.
The first half of the week presents Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl and Marie Doro in Castles for Two a Sidney Drew comedy. The latter half features Pauline Frederick in Sapho Gladys Hulette in Potts and Pans Peggy. Burton Holmes travel pictures Bray cartoons accompany the program.
The Gaiety hosts Babe La Tour this week with assist from Lester Allen and Leo Hoyt. Mae Sheridan George Reynolds Gladys Parker and Martha Morton also perform delivering two hours of clean high class entertainment from overture to finale.
The Majestic Theatre will be dark this week. Tickets go on sale at the box office Thursday for the premiere of Oscar Straus operetta The Beautiful Unknown, to be presented Saturday night instead of Monday next week as previously announced.
Keiths Bijou screens the double bill this week led by Violet Mersereau in The Boy Girl and Kathryn Williams in Out of the Wreck for the first three days. A new program will debut Thursday with Mary Miles Minter in Youths Endearing Charms and Pauline Frederick in Sapho.
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