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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1917
Page
6
Park Square Theatre opened Faster week last night with renewed vigor and joyous reception. Selwyn & Co. supplied the company with able assistance, maintaining the enduring appeal of this banner production.
A melodrama praised for spectacle opens at the Boston Opera House with Dominic meeting Zoris in the Garden of Allah. Sarah Truax stars as the heroine, William Jeffrey as Boris, Howard Gould as Count Anteoni, and the cast delivers convincing performances amid sand storms and exotic settings.
The opening scene of The Garden of Allah presents a picture titled The Spirit of the Desert. The note urges all visitors to be present as the curtain rises to capture the performance’s mood and tone.
At the Copley Theatre last evening the Henry Jewett Players presented She Stoops to Conquer. Beatrice Miller led Mrs Hardcastle with London experience, Gladys Morris voiced Kate Hardcastle, Lionel Glenister played Marlowe, and Leon Gordon took George Hastings. Cast also included Jessamine Newcombe Constance Benjamin Joy Stingo Leonard Craske Sir Charles Marlowe Cameron Matthews Diggory and W Conway Wingfield as Tony Lumpkin.
Readers get a snapshot of two bold entries on pages nine and thirteen. The features promise striking developments, with concise notes pointing to unfolding events, key figures, and evolving stories across the edition.
Two headliners MelIntyre and Heath, famed blackface act, star in On Guard at B F Keith's Theatre. Elizabeth Brice and Charles King perform musical comedy numbers. Lady Louise Agnese and her Irish colleens present an Irish Evening at Home with dances and songs. Also featuring Conlin Parks Trio and more acts.
After a long run at another playhouse the production moved to Tremont Theatre and resumed its success. The show features an energetic American with strong self confidence presented in a novel, highly attractive manner.
Guy Bates Post stars in The Masquerader at Plymouth Theatre. The melodrama elicits repeat viewings to catch its finer points as another successful week opens.
Geraldine Farrar stars as the Maid of Orleans in Joan the Woman. The recent swift national events heighten its appeal to patriotic audiences and loyalty to the flag.
The Majestic Theatre opens with The Beautiful Unknown operetta starring Charles Purcell in a striking debut at the venue. Dorothy Follis, Charles Judels, Josephine Wittle, Ned Monroe, Maude Odell, Sam Hardows, Fannie Grant and Ted Wing are praised for strong performances.
The new Hall Caine drama arrives with an all star cast including Edmund Breese Mabel Taliaferro Mme Yorska Derwent Hall Caine Maude Milton Craufurd Kent Whitford Kane and Mabel Carruthers as they finalize artistic and mechanical details for the first stage production.
Miss Cecil Spooner opened a two week stay at Castle Square last evening in her own play My Irish Cinderella. She received an emphatic hit as both actress and playwright and delighted the audience as a dancer. The supporting company features Henry Lessey and a dozen more actors.
Sparkling humor and lively vaudeville drew applause yesterday at the Howard Atheneum. The Tourists Burlesquers impressed early with Gus Fay, Clara Rackett, Jennie Ross, May Dix, Ernest Schroeder, Jack Howard, Eddie Fox, and B. George in key roles. The Three Kundles, Rowles and Gilman, the Maginleys, Joe Kelly and Louis Bouvais also received strong cheers.
Twenty one bluejackets from the United States battleship Virginia starred at Bowdoin Square Theatre. Jim White displayed notable strength in feats. The program included Dante's Inferno, The Great Secret, Patria, the Tyrolean Troubadours, Turner brothers, De Lea and Orma, and Billy Purcell along with moving pictures and vaudeville.
Frederick Perry in The Family Stain and Myrtle Stedman in The Prison Without Walls headline the double feature at Keith's Bijou for the first three days of the week. A complete programme change on Thursday brings Bryant Washburn in Skinner's Dress Suit and Jack Pickford in The Dummy.
Tonight and Wednesday at the New Beacon Theatre George Beban stars in The Bond Between. Anna Q Nilsson appears in The Inevitable. Mrs Vernon Castle also appears in Patria on the same program.
At Gordon's Olympia this week the leading attraction is Apartment 29 a mystery photo play. The third in stalment of The British War is also shown. In the vaudeville Cardo and Noel the Johnson brothers and Johnson Frances Fulton and company and Irving and Ward were features.
Park Theatre presents Kitty Gordon in Forget-Me-Not this week along with The Waiting Soul featuring Mme Petrova and The Great Secret with Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew in Locked Out completing the bill at the Park Theatre.
Young Blades of Woonsocket defeated Brockton’s Harry Carlson in a 12 round bout at the Coliseum to claim the New England lightweight championship, Carlson the prior titleholder who agreed to defend tonight.
Hartford Conn April 9 President Daniel O Neil of the Eastern Baseball Association announced that a league meeting would be held in Boston on Tuesday April 17 to prepare the schedule for the coming season.
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