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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1918
Page
11
At the Wilbur Theatre last evening Sidney Drew and his wife appeared for the first time in this city in Keep Her Smiling a comedy adapted by John Hunter Booth from Edgar Franklin. It is not a great play but a clever one full of human touches and wholesome laughter.
Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew are noted film performers. Keep Her Smiling follows a cautious cashier whose ambitious wife hosts an elaborate musicale to boost his image. Through a string of plausible events he lands a profitable contract and is promoted, with both humor and a subtle moral about self regard.
De Witt Jennings delivers his familiar character, supported by a smoothly cast ensemble in Keep Her Smiling. The Wilbur engagement pleases and is likely to endure as a laughing treat for patrons seeking light entertainment.
United States Navy Jazz Band, 25 musicians, appeared at B F Keiths Theatre under Navy Department and Liberty Loan committee loan. The vaudeville bill featured Mme Doree’s celebrities, Wisses with William Gaxton, Thornton duo, Courtney sisters, Bradley and Arden, and Wheeler acrobats plus current events news pictures.
The Orpheum presents Hoey and Lee in The Nominee headlining this week. Other acts include Bobby Carroll and company in The Merchant Prince Lane and Harper in The Man and the Mani cure Les Aristocrats dancing act and Winns and Bert. Also News Pictorial Fox comedy The Tiger Map with William S. Hart. Thursdays changes add The New Producer Morgan and Gray Allman and Sykes John Duns more Creighton and Arnold Telix and Fisher. Screen offerings include Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew comedy and photoplay The Mad Lover with Robert Warwick.
Merriment fills the Colonial Theatre as The George M. Cohan Revue 1917 draws large audiences. Nora Bayes leads with many talented performers including Charles Winninger in bright acts and travesties reflecting the season's dramatic successes.
The Park Square Theatre remains at the venue for the season with clever lines and situations. Eileen Huban Edward Ellis Anne Sutherland Frank Monroe James Marlowe and the well balanced cast are admirably fitted for their roles.
The Kaiser the Beast of Berlin continues at Globe Theatre for another week due to high demand. The film covers the emperor's career before the war and remains both historical and interesting as the final week runs.
Park Theatre bills Montague Love as Cardinal Mercier in The Cross Bearer a role that captivates with its compassionate portrayal of Belgiums revered prelate. May Allison appears in Social Hypocrites a comedy drama alongside The Pathe Weekly current events Fox Sunshine offerings and Annette Lavick returns with a strong violin solo by Catherine Warren Sargent. The ad closes with an insurance pitch urging live bonds.
Arnold Bennett fantasy becomes a stage comedy The Great Adventure at the Cop ley Theatre last night retold Buried Alive with bright wit The painter Li am Carve Beatrice Miller as the housekeeper delivered solid performances The engagement runs a week followed by School for Scandal next Monday.
Bowdoin Square Theatre featured Mary Pickford in Amarilly of Clothesline Alley, praised as one of her best appearances. Norma Talmadge showed The Devil's Needle, a gripping thriller, while The Open Switch presented the Woman in the Web episode. Fatty Arbuckle offered Fatty at Coney. Animated Weekly educated audiences. Vaudeville included Cumberland and Marion, Alice Farrell, Farley and Butler, the Edwards, Billy Tan, and Fiesta song birds. Amateurs Thursday night and bargain features Sunday. next week Theda Bara in The Forbidden Path.
The second week of The Country Cousin opened last evening at Hollis Street Theatre with a large audience showing growing appreciation for the charming comedy. Alexandra Carlisle offers an excellent vehicle for her first starring venture and is well supported by an accomplished company.
The Shubert Theatre will be dark this week but will reopen Monday April 15 with So Long Letty led by Charlotte Greenwood and featuring many favorites from the musical comedy’s first city appearance.
Last evening the Plymouth Theatre opened another week of the engagement of The Man Who Came Back. The stirring melodrama drew a large, enthusiastic audience. Laura Walker and Arthur Ashley head the cast with the rest of the company praised for their polish.
The current program features The Devil's Wheel with Gladys Brockwell and When a Man Marries with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew. Tonight and tomorrow present The Forbidden Faith with Theda Bara and The Devil's Needle with Norma Talmadge as the late week bill.
A lively burlesque show by Aviators Burlesque at the Howard Atheneum drew strong applause yesterday. Gladys Sears, dancing girl Aloha, Sammy Evans, Charley Neil, Millie Loveridge, Anna Scranton, Babe Natworthy, Rae Montgomery, Harry Scranton, Archie Bell and others delivered. A vaudeville segment featured the Balzer sisters aerial act, ventriloquist Fields and Hanson, De Costa with xylophone Dorothy Knowles, among others. Next week the Speedway Girls join the bill.
Boston Theatre presents Taylor Holmes in Ruggles of Red Gap adapted from Harry Leon Wilson story about the English aristocrat George humbling at draw poker after meeting Americans. Snor and Avey deliver strong comedy while Dansel D Art and Libby’s dancing add variety. Local acts Cleve xylophonist Loughlin West La Veen Cross and film comedy headline the bill with news pictures.
Sam Sidman stars at Waldron's Casino in Circus in Town with his known burlesque persona. Jean Irwin leads as prima donna alongside Frankie Niblo and Addie Carlson as a notable soprano pair. Supporting cast includes Albert Frank in a Hebrew role, John Quigg, Jack Howard, Elmer Brown, George Thurston, Gene Carlson, Florence Stewart, a double quartet and a lively chorus of young women.
The St James Theatre presents a musical comedy headlined by James Glidden Gladys Davis and Howard Clifton with Parsons and Irwin in A Message From the Front plus Rose Berry Clinton and Rooney and McConnell and Austin. News Pictorial comedy and The Guilty Man screen feature. Thursday shifts to Officer 444 by American Comedy Four Hugh Norton and company with the Renee girls Frank and Milt Britton and Chapin study eighth episode of Abraham Lincoln and By Right of Purchase starring Norma Talmadge.
Washington Theatre showcases The Marriage Bubble with William Desmond and Dorothy Dalton Tonight and tomorrow. Dorothy Dalton also stars in Unfaithful with Viola Dana in Breakers Ahead. On Thursday through Saturday George W. Fawcett and Bessie Eyton appear in The Crisis, Alma Rubens with Texas Quinan in The Love Brokers, plus weeklong vaudeville acts.
The bill at the Modern Theatre features The Danger Game starring Madge Kennedy and The Honor Of His House with Sessue Hayakawa. Both are engaging photoplays plus short comedies and news pictures accompany the program.
The Beacon Theatre presents The Honor of His House starring Japanese actor Ses sue Hayakawa and Madge Kennedy in The Danger Game. Also on the bill are short comedies and news pictures.
Castle Square Theatre features Mary Pickford in Amarilly of Clothesline Alley to rousing audiences. Shorty Hamilton provides holiday laughter with Denny from Ireland, alongside a Lloyd comedy and the Hearst-Pathe News. New cast members Andra Lewis and Helen Norton join as stage director. For the week, patriotic photoplay For the Freedom of the World stars Barbara Castleton, with Chaplin in The Immigrant and Mary Miles Minter in A Bit of Jade.
This week's Exeter programme features Wild Youths from Sir Gilbert Parker, Viola Dana in Breakers Ahead, Pauline Frederick in La Tosca, Ward Bennett in Naughty Naughty, and in news two issues weekly Sidney Drew and Strand comedies.
Scollay Square Olympia features Alimony as the week’s standout, exposing the secret of the divorce traffic. Billy West stars in The Strang er, delivering wild laughs, while The Spirit of 1917 war picture draws solid crowds. The vaudeville lineup includes Chio and Chio, Itchen and Jviteh, Arthur Mercedes and company in A Study of Life School Days, the three Lyres, and Albros troupe, closing with Olympia News Weekly’s world-wide news.
Leo Ditrichstein scores another Boston triumph at Tremont Theatre with The King a satirical farce praised for its safe danger zone and the star’s deft performance as Serge IV supported by a capable cast in a lively crowd-pleasing production.
The Majestic Theatre presents Getting Together this week with Blanche Bates and Holbrook Blinn in lead roles and a strong supporting cast. Following is Griffiths Hearts of the World, filmed on actual French battlefields and touted as an immense production by the manager.
This afternoon from 2 to 4 o clock the Liberty Theatre on the Common hosts the Getting Together company led by Blanche Bates Holbrook Blinn Percival Knight Harrison Brockbank Ruth Benson Harriet Sterling Lieutenant Gitz Rice William Rosella Pipe Major Baillie and others. Stage Women's War Relief volunteers will sell Liberty bonds during the event. Pipe Major Baillie, a Scotch piper with 40 years in the British army, will play the bagpipe.
The Spiegel Revue at the Gayety Theatre offers two pleasant hours of burlesque with lively music and entertaining acts. Midgie Millers stands out with vivacity and charm, followed by comedians Harry Sheppell and Johnnie Walker. Marie Allen as Miss Shapely and Mae Clinton along with Emma Cook and others provide strong performances, with the California Trio’s baritone voice noted. The show includes vaudeville by Midgie Miller and the Callahan brothers and features some of the finest dancing in recent times.
Tonight and tomorrow the Old South Theatre shows Pauline Starke and Jack Wivingston in Inno ccent's Progress and The Crisis with George W. Fawcett and Bessie Eyton. Thursday through Saturday features William Desmond in The Marriage Bubble Dorothy Dalton in Unfaithful and Viola Dana in Breakers Ahead. Vaudeville remains strong all week.
At Franklin Park Theatre Mae Marsh stars in The Beloved Traitor during the first three days. The Witchen Lady comedy and vaudeville act featuring M. Day and company, Walter James, The Bill Poster, Chief Tendahoe, Indian novelty, and Princess Zulieka entertain. Edith Story performs The Claim drama on Thursday through Saturday with added comedy and a full vaudeville change.
Carl M Gustafson a Lynn blacksmith born in Sweden was arrested yesterday by Inspectors Broad and Donahue on sedition charges. He and his wife and several children live at 4 Summer street and will be turned over to Federal authorities. He allegedly made statements charged by coworkers after learning police were seeking him. He bought two Liberty Loan bonds during the day and denies the accusations.
A dramatic fire lit the Arlington Heights countryside near Arlington and Lexington last night. The 112 story dwelling of Lewis Ansell at 188 Sylvia Street atop Arlington Heights was burned to the ground. No cause is given and damage is about $1000.
The President and Cabinet attended an off the record screening of a film adapted from Ambassador Gerard’s memoir My Four Years in Germany. The private showing in Washington staged scenes from Berlin and the war zone, depicting Gerard’s experiences before and during the outbreak of war.
Douglas Fairbanks stars in The M Half Breed at Gordon's Olympia with Billy West in The Stranger and The Spirit of 1917 war picture shown. The vaudeville program features Military Four Stevens and Brunelle Charles Rodgers Co in The Movie Maniac The World in Harmony the Neilson Ballet Olympia News Weekly and more. Be a bondholder in the United States government.
Navy plans to erect barracks on Cambridge Common at Harvard Square to house over 800 cadets from the Naval Radio School. Lieutenant-Commander Nathaniel Ayer will seek Cambridge park commission approval, with expected consent. The city deeded the land for parade and military use, and the navy also seeks to take Weld Boat Club, drill stations, swimming instruction, and davits on Larz Anderson Bridge for cutter work.
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