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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1909
Page
4
Mrs. Fiske stars in Salvation Nell at the Majestic, a stark New York slums drama by Edward Sheldon. The play traces Nell from a drink den to Salvation Army captain, with Jim Platt’s redemption and strong supporting turns, praised for realism and stage craft.
The Morning Glories burlesque company opens a week at Palace Theatre with In Zululand a two act musical burlesque by Clare Evans leading role. Cast includes Banks Niner Feldman Mack Alexander Roll White Barlow and the Raymond sisters Babette Gertrude Collins Juliet Niner. Acts feature a dancing number The Devil and a comic black faced monologue. Amateur night slated for Friday.
An old remedy claims to cure acute colds in twenty four hours using one ounce syrup of sar saparilla one ounce Toris compound and half a pint of whiskey mixed and taken as a tablespoonful every four hours. The formula is said to also boost the system and improve appetite for the aged or weak.
George M. Cohan and his royal family drew a large crowd at the Colonial Theatre for The Yankee Prince. The show featured lively songs and dances led by Cohan and siblings, with strong supporting turns by Josephine Cohan and others, as audiences cheered the music and novelty acts.
The Kentucky Belles led by Jim Diamond appear with Bob Gordon's company in The Hoodlum's Holiday at the Columbia Theatre. Rousing acts include Gibson and Ranney singing, O Malley and Golden dancing, Melrose acrobats, and a highlighted Diamond performance. Joe Rusek and Prokos challenge in wrestling tomorrow, followed by amateur acts Friday.
The Scenic Temple host refined entertainment this week with the Empire Women's Orchestra again delighting audiences at afternoon and evening performances. Mr J W Myers entertained with illustrated songs while a vivid lecture The Slave of the Galleys drew strong approval. Motion pictures will shift to holiday themed offerings later in the week.
The Cameraphone introduces a new feature at Theatre Comique yesterday. Performances include Sutie from Piff Puff Pooff, selections by the Criterion Quartet Harrigan and Samuels and May in a song and dance number. Films shown include On the Western Frontier The Master of Black Rock Beware of Evil Companions and Larry the Limit for Deviltry. May Vincent and George Stedman appear in illustrated songs with Louise Maton’s Ladies Orchestra delivering popular music to an applauding audience.
William Gillette enters the final half of his Boston engagement in Samson at the Hollis Street Theatre. The opening fortnight has been notable, with Gillette beloved by Boston audiences after a two year absence. He portrays the hero's humble origins with striking contrasts, supported by Arthur Byron Pauline Frederick Marie Wainwright Frederic de Belleville George Probert Desmond Kelley and others contributing to the production's success.
George Ade’s witty script shines under William H. Crane at the Park Theatre in its second week. Crane delivers a sparkling leading performance with a strong supporting cast enhancing the lively farce full of deft humor and audience rapport.
In Boston audiences won applaud for Mary Young as The Little Princess at Castle Square Theatre. The play, by Mrs. Burnett, portrays boarding school life with humor and pathos, while the producer Mr. Craig is praised for the production. Next Monday William Ashe stars with Miss Young in the lead, and on April 19 the musical season opens with A Runaway Girl.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre stock company delivered a powerful production of Lost in Siberia with Charlotte Hunt in Olga drawing strong praise. Tommy Shearer as the American traveller, Hal Clarendon as Bail Nordell, and James S. Barrett as Major Karlin were noted for solid performances. Next week Annette Marshall returns with Nobody's Darling.
The Gaiety Theatre showcases the Golden Crook Burlesquers this week. The Eight act program features the Four Taikens in top form with comedy dancing singing and acrobatics. Performers include Jaci Reid Ella Reid Gilbert W A Inman Billy Kelly and others plus the La Tour sisters.
The program features Buffalo Jones ex President Roosevelt's guide with Yellowstone Park scenes and a live mountain lion capture. Also shown are films The Road to the Heart The Fish Pirates and The Schoolboy's Revenge. Edith Mellor Gertrude Mann Paul Doherty and Charles Frydberg sing, The Travellettes perform Lights and Shades of New York.
The Globe Theatre plans an afternoon reopening featuring a series of Yiddish plays performed by the Belkins Company. The group is noted as containing some of the best interpreters of this drama in the country.
A compact ad touts Marine Eye Remedy as protecting eye health and easing discomfort while enhancing appearance. The product emphasizes soothing ingredients and natural benefits for daily use.
The Keith's Theatre program this week features Fred Karno's A Night in an English Music Hall with Alf Reeves and Robert Lewis, plus The Six Musical Cuttys, Bessie Wynn, Charles Lorenzo Fletcher, Edward Davis, the Mangean acrobats, Alexander and Scott, Landon Lucier, Huston, Sansone and Delilah, and Gaines and Brown. The crowd enjoyed surprises and lively performances throughout.
Boston audience fills Tremont Theatre for the second week of Charles Rann Kennedy drama The Servant in the House. Walter Hampden as Manson the servant delivers a powerful performance alongside Edith Wynne Matthison and a strong supporting cast in a piece praised for its brotherhood message and stark character drawing.
A four act sensational comedy melodrama at the Grand Opera House delights with thrills and humor. The heroine Bessie, daughter of a rich farmer, hides as Messenger Boy No 42 to protect her father from counterfeiters. Remarkable Landseer dogs aid in foiling the criminals and the cast receives ovations.
Austin residents flocked to Stone's Museum for the biggest show on earth costing 10 cents. The three ring display features the Rosenziewigs, Hunt the Boer War artist, Leah May eight feet tall with Colonel Baker, Cleopatra snake dance by Princess Cairo, Ahib Bey singing, Manhattan girls with Paddy Joyce and others.
Frederic Thompson presents the latest play Via Wireless at the Boston Theatre starting Monday April 12. The show tours from Chicago where it played to great success at the Chicago Opera House with the same company and elaborate scenic equipment from its Liberty Theatre production.
The Merry Maiden company led by Sam Rice wowed patrons at the Howard yesterday with Cafe Boulevard and At Coney Island. Patti Carney and Bulah Walton headlined a starry bill with song, dance, and novelty acts, while the Howardscope showcased a loop of motion pictures.
Boston’s Orpheum Theatre offers a strong bill headlined by Julian Eltinge praised for feminine character acts including Salome. The lineup features Felix and Caire impersonations, Henry Helme’s operatic singing, Wilson Franklyn and company in My Wife Won’t Let Me, the Wynne brothers, Rice and Cady, Blanch Sloan, Ned Nye and Ida Crispi, the Magnani Four, Walter Keith, and the Morris cope in a varied evening of entertainment.
After two decades away John Alles returns to Wilmette with his son Frank, wife Mrs Alles greeting him at the doorway. The man, described as a peculiar, sullen figure, asks to be let in and says he is very hungry as the reunion unfolds.
Captain Kirtland W. Perry, three years in command of the revenue cutter Gresham at this port, is ordered detached and will take charge of the cutter Tuscarora in the Great Lakes service with headquarters at Milwaukee. Captain P. H. Aberroth will succeed him on the Tuscarora, and J. W. Glover, second lieutenant of engineers, moves from the Gresham to the Mackinac.
A Hastings news special reports Attorney Freshman’s suitcase containing evidence gathered in Hastings and Ohio for the Hearst Haskell libel suit was stolen from a platform at Michigan Central Station on Saturday afternoon.
West Medford Catholic Association tightens plans for a minstrel show and Easter festival, the first social event for St Raphael's parish. The benefit will be held at the Opera House in East Medford on Monday evening April 12 with a committee confident of a strong turnout.
A Missouri booklet reports that all surplus eggs laid in 1907 would extend twice around the globe if placed end to end. The fact is from a Missouri State Board of Agriculture publication issued in Columbia.
Republicans won six of seven wards in Calais Maine election. Mayor William J. Fowler and five Aldermen were re-elected.
Dr. Aloysius M Churchill in Chicago claims a scalp treatment will end itching and dandruff. He prescribes 2 ounces of quintane in 14 pints of hot water jet cooled, rub into the scalp, with 2–3 applications. He reports 95 of 98 cases cured and urges preventive use to stop spreading infection.
The Manhattan Opera Company staged Charpentier Louise at the Boston Theatre with a notable cast led by Campanini. Reviewers praised the absorbing drama and performance, noting Garden Dalmores and Gilibert as standout presences. The production contrasted with Pelleas et Melisande and highlighted Charpentier’s life infused approach to Paris, environment, and humanity.
John Dickinson of John Dickinson & Co. on Consolidated Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade is said to have collapsed physically over the weekend. His attorney George W. Plummer reports he has not left the company premises, and the receiver was appointed in Chicago today.
Bar Harbor faces a court test of its auto ban when S. H. Mayo of Southwest Harbor drives a car along the Eagle Lake road closed to autos. Mayo is arrested and appeals to the Supreme Judicial Court to be held in Ellsworth on April 13, with the case likely to go to the law court on an agreed statement of facts.
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