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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1918
Page
7
An old ad touts Sloan's Liniment for neuralgic headaches and rheumatic pains. It promises prompt relief by counter irritation, penetrating the skin without rubbing, and suitable for sore muscles joints sprains strains sciatica and bruises with bottles priced 25 50 cents and 1.00.
A reader from Oak Park NL reports twelve years of kidney and bladder weakness eased by Balm Wort Kidney Tablets. The ad touts fatigue, aches, and low mood as linked to kidney function and promises renewed vitality after use. All druggists sell them.
If you have catarrhal deafness or head noises, mix one ounce Parmint lovile strength with forty four pints of hot water and a little granular sugar. Take four tablespoonsful four times daily. This often relieves head noises, opens clogged nasal passages, eases breathing, and stops mucus drainage into the throat. Easy to prepare and pleasant to take.
The Shubert attraction So Long Letty opened last night and drew large crowds. The musical farce, set in the West, is praised for its score and plot with initial signs of popularity confirmed by early performances.
Abandoned trolley cars near San Francisco serve as quirky dwellings in a musical comedy plot led by Charlotte Greenwood as Mrs Robbins and May Boley as Mrs Miller. The show blends dances, songs, and expressive performances while war headlines hover in the background.
Crowd witnessed the Boston debut of Mrs Vernon Castle in The Titterest Mystery a story of action suspense and intrigue with a touch of color from the great war elements include Thomas Sterine donating his shipbuilding plant for the war effort and a bill featuring The Gypsy Brigands Minks and Alton Neighbors Walter Leroy Emily Lytton Clifford Nelson Jane Castle Marie Russell and other acts in a varied program.
The current bill at B F Keiths Theatre offers a balanced program with Gus Edwards Annual Song Revue featuring music dance and comedy. Olga Cook and Dan Healy receive top notices while Mario Villani Helen Coyne and Kate Elmore Sam Williams headline strong supporting acts. The program includes Little Mignon Ralph Smalley Collins and Hart Flanagan Edwards the Browne sisters and Marzella dancers with a news pictorial.
Yesterday at Loews Orpheum Theatre the notable photoplay was Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird with fantasy and character realism. The vaudeville featured ventriloquist The Great Howard and acts by the O Neil sisters Barnes and Smythe Randalls and others, plus News Fictorial and a comedy reel. Thursday will present Arturo Bernardi the quick change artist and Charles Ray in Playing the Game.
The Castle Square programme showcases Pauline Frederick in La Tosca and Little Red Decides with Frederick Vroom headlining. Andru Lewis and Helen Norton lead a popular reorganized vaudeville lineup with In the Mountains musical variety. Hearst-Pathe News airs twice weekly. From Thursday afternoon the photoplays feature Taylor Holmes in Ruggles of Red Gap and Mabel Normand in The Floor Below.
The Park Theatre showcases Woman and the Law about Mrs. De Saulles and the murder trial amid strong audience response. Following is With Neatness and Despatch a comedy drama starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne about a maiden aunt and two nieces. The program also features Pathé Weekly Mack Sennett Keystone comedy and the Florentine singers Jean Yyffe and Irma Phillips, with a pleasing Park Symphony Orchestra overture.
Park Square Theatre opened another week of Cheating Cheaters last evening drawing a delighted crowd. The company is led by Fileen Hubhan and includes Anne Sutherland Winnifred Harris Gypsey O'Brien Edward Ellis James C. Marlowe and Frank Monroe with a clever, far from ordinary crook play.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre shows The Forbidden Path featuring Theda Bara as Mary Lynde a girl cast out by a furious father who must fight life on her own. Also screened are The Coward with Frank Keenan and Charles Ray and Taming Target Center from Paramount Mack Sennett. The Speeding Doom continues and Animated Weekly covers current events. Vaudeville includes McLaughlin Evans McAleavey the Howards Bob Tenney Murphy and Morey and the Daley singers. Next week Elsie Ferguson will star in The Song of Songs.
Lon Hascall leads the Gayety Theatre comedy team in Broadway Frolics a two act burlesque that foregoes plot for audience laughter The show features Wilbur Dobbs Jim Tenbrooke Mark Thompson Jack Nichols Bertha Del Monte Eileen Sheridan and Bessie Baker with a pretty chorus and evident training effort
Madam Petrova stars in The Life Mask a mystery drama produced by her own company at Gordon's Olympia. The tale centers on a possible crime with the heroine herself suspected while the U S war pictures receive audience cheers and a vaudeville lineup closes the bill with The Hippodrome Four Din glespiel's Night School and Sally's Visit plus The Olympia News Weekly.
David W. Griffiths film Hearts of the World screens tonight at the Majestic. A war epic with a romance set amid French conflict, designed to boost Liberty bonds, with Governor McCall, Mayor Peters and military leaders expected to attend the inaugural showing.
Manager Frank Dore lists the first half of the week featuring William Russell in Snap Judgement a mistaken identity tale and His Hidden Purpose. Vaudeville includes Sim Barber Murray and Love Brennan and Doris and Cycling McNutts. From Thursday Viola Dana appears in Brokers Ahead with changes to vaudeville and new comedy films.
A patriotic plea urges citizens to loan the government 50 or 100 dollars through Liberty bonds. The message promises financial payoff and personal satisfaction from aiding the nation’s wartime effort.
The Globe Theatre opened with Tarzan of the Apee a photoplay from Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Elmo Lincoln portrays Tarzan in jungle melodrama amid dramatic ape scenes. Enid Markey stars as the heroine with a cast of noted screen players.
Burlesque show at Waldron's Casino showcases Billy Watson in Cafe De Graft and A Merry Mix Up with a strong supporting company. Mae Dix and Katherine Page headline a lively troupe including Nash, Duffy, Figg, Ownie Martin, Hazel Josselyn, Lulu Coates and her Cracker Jacks. Vaudeville specialties praised as high quality.
Alexandra Carlisle stars in The Country Cousin at Hollis Street Theatre entering its third week. Booth Tarkington and Julian Street wrote the comedy, which Boston patrons greet warmly. The capable company features Donald Gallaher Alfred Lunt and Beatrice Noyes supporting Carlisle.
The Tremont Theatre closes its weeklong engagement of Leo Ditrichstein in The King a satire on a philandering European ruler visiting Paris. The play’s wit and sharp social humor echo local conditions and audience tastes. Pollyanna with Patricia Collinge begins April 22 as the next attraction.
The Man Who Came Back continues at Plymouth Theatre with strong scenes and exciting episodes drawing steady patrons. Arthur Ashley stars as hero Henry Potter and Laura Walker portrays a delightful heroine as the melodrama nears its fourth Boston month.
Patrons welcomed the policy of offering complete photoplay bills at the Columbia Theatre. The program featured By Right of Purchase with Norma Talmadge as a frivolous society girl, and The German Curse in Russia, a stirring drama. Thursday’s bill will present William S. Hart in The Tiger Man and a new photoplay Pay Me.
The Copley Theatre will continue Arnold Bennett's comedy The Great Adventure for six more days after last week’s success. The Henry Jewett Players star in performances that entertain and showcase artistic work, with strong demand for future seats.
The Wilbur Theatre showcases Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew in Keep Her Smiling, drawing large crowds as their stage adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Tringle delight Boston audiences. The second week in Boston opened with strong attendance and a promising run.
This week's Exeter lineup includes Norma Talmadge in By Right of Purchase Harold Lockwood stars in The Landloper Mary Garden appears in The Splendid Sinner May Allison features in The Social Hypocrites Bray cartoons Pathe News and Strand comedies rounding out the program.
A brief guidance item urges homeowners to add two more Liberty bonds by depositing them in a bank and to repeat the action indefinitely, reflecting wartime savings promotion.
The Speedway Girls presented a sparkling burlesque at the Howard Atheneum with acts by Sammy Spear John Black Dolly Bunch Jennie Delmar and Sue Milford thrilling the crowd. Vaudeville followed featuring Brown Harris Brown Hank the Havelocks jugglers Reilly Hughes La Paolo Landis Sylvia and more.
The Colonial Theatre concluded its final week last night with The George M. Cohan Revue. Critics praise its bright but pretentious presentation as Cohan directs lively characters with color and humor. Toot, Toot, a musical version of Excuse Me, will follow on April 2.
At Loew's St James Theatre Hoey and Jee headline The Nominee with a one act Between Showers Lane and Harper in The Man and the Man sieure Les Aristocrats dancing novelty and Binns and Bert in acrobatic comicals Also on screen latest news pictorial a comedy The Tiger Man with William Hart Thursday changes list The New Producer musical comedy and The Blue Bird on screen
In Boston the Modern Theatre presented for the first time two photoplays on one bill. Douglas Fairbanks starred in Mr. Fix It, a unique film that departs from his recent style. Mae Marsh appeared in The Face in the Dark, based on an Irvin Cobb story, with newsreels and comedies rounding out the program.
Douglas Fairbanks opens his latest photoplay Mr Fix-It at the Beacon Theatre in Boston making his first appearance there. He encounters varied adventures from luxury halls to humble homes. The bill also features The Face in the Dark with Mae Marsh, plus short comedies and news pictures.
An appeal urges readers to buy Liberty bonds, equating a single $50 bond to the sacrifice of a soldier in the trenches to bolster wartime funding and support the war effort.
At Scollay Square Olympia this week William Hart delivers his best performance to date in The Bandit and the Preacher. Camp Devens boys headline the wartime program with several hits. Vaudeville features Mr and Mrs Stewart Dar row in finger shadows smoke pictures Lyrica singing comedienne Gertude Arden and company in The Other Witness. Bedford and Gardner Detzel and Carroll Trojan art models and Olympia News Weekly.
At the Lancaster Theatre yesterday two photoplays played, The Daughter of France starring Virginia Pearson, whose keen information prowess thwarts officers and aids her people. The companion feature was Revenge with Edith Storey.
The Thursday change of bill will bring Love Me starring Dorothy Dalton and The Coward featuring Frank Skeenan and Charles Ray to local screens, offering audiences a double feature of drama and suspense.
Mayor Peters received Civil Service Commission confirmations for six appointees including Thomas F. Sullivan as public works commissioner Sanford Bates and John J. O Callaghan as street commissioners Fred A Finegan as election commissioner Dr George G Sears as City Hospital trustee and William H Slocum as sinking fund commissioner. Adamson s Balsam advert accompanies the notice.
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