A Grand Army Man Opens At Majestic With Warfield
David Warfield and his company presented A Grand Army Man at the Majestic Theatre in Boston marking Warfield’s first non dialect performance in the role. The production features Wes Bigelow a conflicted Indiana man facing prison and a post war moral test. Support from Antoinette Perry Marie Bates Oscar Eagle and others rounds out the cast as The Music Master follows next week.
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Boston
Majestic Theatre
David Warfield
Stuyyvesant Theatre
New York
Mr. Warfield
Wes Bigelow
Indiana
Grand Army Post
Bigelow
Ir. Warfield
Mr. Belasco
Herr Barwig
Antoinette Perry
Hallie
Marie Bates
Letitia
Oscar Eagle
Judge Andrews
William Elliott
Robert
William Boag
George Woodward
Harold Mead
Stephen Maley
Tony Bevan
Thomas Gilbert
Louis P. Verande
Warfield
Theatre Comique Delights Crowded Show With Return of Louise Eaton
Crowds thronged Theatre Comique to see Louise Eaton's ladies orchestra return. The program featured The Queen of the Ranch and Forgive as leading films, plus Invidible Fluid Students Day Yiddisher Boy Were Backing Up The General's Fiance and various patriotic pictures of famous heroes.
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Theatre Comique
Louise Eaton
Marvellous Mi o na and laxatives advertised for stomach distress
An advertisement touts Mi o na tablets from Riker Jaynes Drug Co as a cure for indigestion and sour stomach. It promises a week to feel better after laying down 50 cents and tries to reassure buyers with a money back guarantee. Also promotes Booth s Laxative Pills as a remedy for laziness and an unsettled liver.
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Riker-Jaynes Drug Co
Riker- Jaynes Drug Co
Booth
The Travelling Salesman at Park Theatre Delights Crowd
Mr James Forbes presents The Travelling Salesman at Park Theatre with Rosalind Coghlan as Beth Elliott and Mark Smith as the travelling salesman The play is praised for crisp dialogue lively slang and engaging characters The plot centers on Beth Elliots land sale and Blakes romantic triumph over schemers in a tax sale night show ending with light humor and warmth
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James Forbes
Boston
Park Theatre
Forbes
Knights of the Grip
Mr. Forbes
Beth Elliott
Drury
Franklyn Royce
Bob Blake
Beth
Blake
Royce
Rosalind Coghlan
Mark Smith
Diana Huneker
Bobbett
Robert Dudley
Emmett Shackelford
James O'Neil
Austin Webb
Daniel Jarrett
Bowdoin Square Theatre Presents The Octoroon
A large holiday audience attended two Bowdoin Square Theatre performances of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. The stock company delivered a solid dramatic showing with standout turns by Charlotte Hunt as Zoe and Hal Clarendon as Wahnotee. Moving pictures accompanied the production, and The Octoroon will be shown twice daily this week.
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Bowdoin Square Theatre
Dion Boucicault
Charlotte Hunt
Zoe
Salem Scudder
Harry Brooks
New England
Tommy Shearer
Uncle Pete
James Barrett
Jacob McClosky
Little Paul Gussie Hunt
Hal Clarendon
Wahnotee
Dora Sunnyside
Theatre Premier Showcases Patriot Pictures and Vaudeville Stars
The Theatre Premier presents a strong holiday bill with feature numbers and patriotic films like The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and The Battle of Lexington. Star vaudeville acts from New York, including Novelty Quartet, Ross and Stringer, Seaman and Summers, Jewett and Wilson, and Harry Cooper, perform in lively numbers such as Selling the Baby Elephant Side Walk Conversation and Idaho. Also shown are The Troublesome Satchel The Orange Growers Daughter Lady Helen s Escapade A Bachelor s Persistence A Plot Foiled and A War Time Tale.
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Paul Revere
Lexington
New York
Ross and Stringer
Seaman
Summers
Jewett and Wilson
Idaho
Harry Cooper
Empire Quartet
Lady Helen
Globe Theatre Opens Vaudeville and Pictures Policy
Globe Theatre inaugurates continuous vaudeville and moving pictures with acts from the Tedeska Keating Trio Barker and Barker Juniper and Hayes Jack Clahane Alfred Caproni Florence Mann and a new film The Orange Grower’s Daughter drawing crowds and praise.
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The
Globe
Tedeska Keating
Cyeb
Barker
Boston
Juniper
Hayes
Jack Clahane
Alfred Caproni
Florence Mann
The Boys and Betty Shines at Hollis Street Theatre
Marie Cahill returns to Boston in The Boys and Betty at Hollis Street Theatre. George W. Hobart wrote the book and lyrics with Silvio Hein on music. the production features a Parisian set, bright numbers, and a strong ensemble led by Cahill and Eugene Cowles.
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Marie Cahill
Boston
Hollis Street
Betty
George W. Hobart
Silvio Hein
Nice
Paris
Major Gordon
Barbeau
James B. Carson
W. G. Stewart
Edward Earle
Macey Harlan
Harriet Burt
Wallace McCutcheon, Jr
Sam B. Hardy
Happy Hooligan at Grand Opera House Delights Crowd
The Grand Opera House features Happy Hooligan and mule Maud in a two act musical comedy. W E Ritchie stars as Hooligan with a strong supporting company delivering songs, vaudeville acts and clever legerdemain amid pretty costumes and lively slapstick. The show keeps audiences in hysterics though the plot remains elusive.
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Maud
Grand Opera House
W. E. Ritchie
Merry Maidens at Columbia Charm With Stagehand Pranks
The Columbia Theatre presented Sam Rice in a lively program of music and comedy highlighted by his humor and a faux Hebrew persona. A staged arrest by police costumes drew the crowd into a big laugh. Patti Carney and the Three Musketeers drew strong applause, with Henry and Lizel delivering notable dancing and singing acts. Tomorrow features Harvard wrestling instructor Carl Anderson vs Ernest Zeigler and Friday adds college amateurs as tragedians in a secret society initiation.
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Columbia
Sam Rice
Coney Island
Sam
Patti Carney
Gilday
Lewis
Henry
Lizel
Carl Anderson
Harvard
Ernest Zeigler
Columbia College
Bijou Dream Enthralls Crowds with Strong Stage Program
Bijou Dream drew record crowds yesterday during a lively program headlined by Gertrude Bennett Holmes and Robert Buchanan in a fresh sketch with catchy songs and costumes. New performers included Robert Seaman Margaret Dudley Grace Palmer and Pauline Barry. A Concord and Lexington lecture and new moving pictures drew high favor with audiences.
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Gertrude Bennett Holmes
Robert Buchanan
Robert Seaman
Margaret Dudley
Grace Palmer
Pauline Barry
Concord
Lexington
Tremont Theatre honors for Servant in the House cast
Henry Miller associate players win fresh honors at the Tremont Theatre for The Servant in the House. A holiday audience witnessed the start of another week of Charles Rann Kennedy drama. Edith Wynne Matthison shines as the wife with each performance.
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Henry Miller
Tremont Theatre
Charles Rann Kennedy
Boston
Edith Wynne Matthison
Runaway Girl charms crowds at Castle Square Boston
The Runaway Girl plays through a long Boston stay with two packed holiday audiences at Castle Square. Donald Meek leads the lively cast in colorful Mediterranean staging with Miss Young as Winifred Grey and Miss Le Baron as Carmenita in a chorus of jokes, songs, and encores.
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Boston
Castle Square
Donald Meek
Miss Young
Winifred Grey
Mr. Craig
Guy Stanley
Miss le Baron
Carmenita
Miss Binley
Mr. Meek
Orpheum Theatre Delivers Graceful Dance Stars and Laughs
America's most graceful dancer George Primrose headlined a fine Orpheum bill. Four buck and wing dancers, Katie Barry with a comic suffragette parody, Alf W Loyal with a diving dog act, Eugenio Love the tenor, and a lineup including Eddie Girard, The Three Laytons, Dixon Bowes and Dixon, Austin Brothers, Walter James, Reid Sisters, and Morriscope provided variety, humor, and spectacle for a large audience.
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America
George Primrose
Orpheum Theatre
Primrose
Buck
Wing
Katie Barry
the Onion
Eugenio Love
Metropolitan Opera House
Eddie Girard
Austin Brothers Company
Walter James
Reid Sisters
Morriscope
Follies of 1908 Returns at Colonial Theatre with Nora Bayes
The Colonial Theatre brings back the Ziegfeld production Follies of 1908 featuring Nora Bayes in the lead. Mile. Dazie captivates with the Harlequinnette Danse au Directoire and corkscrew dance as William C. Schrode delivers dizzying athleticism. The Boston-bound company is greeted with strong enthusiasm by audiences.
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Nora Bayes
Mile
Dazie
William C. Schrode
Boston
Patriots' Day crowds fill Austin and Stone's Museum
Austin and Stone's Museum draws standing room only crowds for Patriots' Day. Freeman's educated goats perform circus feats while Barrett the bee king and a crystal cabinet swarm enchant visitors. The Novello trio and The Spray of Life illusion headline along with Manhattan and Campbell acts.
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Austin & Stone
Freeman
Barrett
King
Novello
America
Curio Hall
Manhattan Girls
Misses Campbell
Elsa
Ross
Trench
Gray
Dan Mulundy
Joyce
Tom Bullock
Parker Shaw
Belford Brothers
Frank Cullen
Cairo
Egypt
Scenic Temple Presents Patriot Themed Film and Music
The Scenic Temple offered a patriotic program from 2:00 to 10:30 yesterday with moving pictures, illustrated songs, and a performance by the Empire Women's Orchestra conducted by Miss Rita Maria. The show drew strong audience interest and will run the same bill throughout the week.
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Scenic Temple
Empire Women's Orchestra
Rita Maria
New Palace Theatre to Close This Week for Major Makeover
The Palace Theatre will close Saturday for a $40,000 interior reconstruction and exterior remodel. When it reopens around May 15 Boston gains a premier playhouse with a focus on vaudeville aimed at women and children, promising top features and light, beautiful surroundings.
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Palace Theatre
Boston
New Palace Theatre
Hub Theatre Welcomes Hundreds of School Children
Several hundred school children with teachers visited the Hub Theatre yesterday turning the venue into a vacation resort. A film tour showed Florida orange production while the vaudeville end featured the Tessie Kellar troupe and comedians. Thursday will bring the Catelucci trio banjoists and Young and Marks dancers.
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Hub
Florida
Tessie Kellar
Marzello
Wolfe
Cody
Paulette
Catelucci
Marks
Keith's Theatre Delights With Star Act Packed Bill
The Keith's Theatre bill features Will H. Murphy Blanche Nichols and company in The School of Acting a new drollery praised for its clever staging and dead and dying soldiers gag. Marie Dainton mimics Marie Lloyd and others earning curtain calls. The program includes Womwood's animal act Golden Troupe Russian singers and dancers Clifford and Burke and various acts plus Taft moving pictures. Henri Renaud winner of yesterday's Marathon is warmly received.
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Keith's Theatre
Will H. Murphy
Blanche Nichols
Will Murphy
Hl Y
Boston
Clifford
Burke
Womwood
Jus Williams
Josephine Davis
Yamamoto Brothers
Taft
Henri Renaud
Roosevelt to dine with Mombasa Club on coast visit
Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt confirms he will dine at the Mombasa Club and spend two days on the coast before moving inland to Sir Alfred Pease’s ranch. He travels with the protectorate governor and railway officials, with potential routes from Nairobi and reports of lions and elephants nearby.
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Mombasa
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Sir Alfred Pease
Athi River
Roosevelt
Sir Alfred
Mr. Roosevelt
Nairobiaus
Nandi
Elburgon
Athi
Tana
Howard Atheneum Patriots Day Burlesque and Vaudeville Highlights
Crowds at the Howard yesterday afternoon witnessed a Patriots Day event featuring Uncle Sam burlesque girls in patriotic colors. The program included burlettas Americans Abroad and The Disputed M, plus vaudeville acts by Daly and O'Brien, Pelletier and Messinger, Sandy Donaldson, and Lillian Houston, with strong turns by Scanlon Stevens Haynes and many others.
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the Howard
Uncle Sam's
George Scanlon
Pearl Stevens
Beatrice Haynes
Dan Gracey
Richard Brothers
Scanlon
Stevens
Provost
Brown
Wills
Hassan
Pelletier
Messinger
Daly
O'Brien
Tanglefoot
Harry Holman
Alvin
Hendrix
Sandy Donaldson
Harry Lauder
Lillian Houston
Vanetta and Lovely
Billy Chase
Billy
Howardscope Pictures
Via Wireless at Boston Theatre Delivers Dramatic Stage Feats
The Boston Theatre showcases Via Wireless a melodrama mixing human nature romance comedy and tragedy. Spectacular effects attract crowds notably a gun casting scene and a wireless telegraphy sequence with an ocean steamship storm and a wrecked yacht. Jack Binns features at curtain close each show.
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Boston Theatre
John Sampolis
Jack Binns
Republic
Mardi Gras Beauties Open Season at Gaiety Theatre
The Gaiety Theatre crowded for two shows as the Mardi Gras Beauties began the season. Notable vaudeville acts include Andy Lewis with Virginia Roydon and Margie Harvey in Won at the Wire, plus the Altona Zoller trio, Maxine Hampton, Lane and Smith, Groves and Doyle, and the Georgia campers. Burlesques Whirl I Fun and The Poloolah in Ireland provide lively comedy.
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Wire
Andy Lewis
Virginia Roydon
Margie Harvey
Altona-Zoeller
Maxine Hampton
Lane and
Smith
Groves and Doyle
Praver
Georgia
Sunny South
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