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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1920
Page
22
The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia ruled that the Federal Trade Commission lacked authority to enforce its order requiring monthly production cost reports from coal mine companies and other industries.
Justice Bailey ruled the federal commission cannot compel daily $100 penalties for coal company reports. He said the commission lacks authority over intrastate mining and production costs when the business is partly intrastate and interstate. The decision, praised by National Coal Association, limits visitorial power and potential reporting across all interstate merchants.
A Boston Shubert Theatre premiere of Fifty Fifty, a long loved William Gillette farce, boosted by a new score from Arthur Swanstrom and Carey Morgan. The revived combination widens its appeal beyond plot alone.
A lighthearted musical comedy titled Fifty Fifty features a young man renting a residence during his uncle's absence and sharing with a chums butler. Herbert Cortell leads a witty turn with straight performance and strong comic delivery. Ruth Wells Doris Arden Rollin Grimes and Jack Pollard headline a lively company with dance and a catchy popular score.
Henry Jewett Players stage Charles Marlowe comedy at the Copley in a farcical voyage between two eras. Sir Guy de Vere dreams himself back to the 12th century where he defeats rival Sir Bryan Ballymore, then returns to woo Lady Rowena Effington with a plan to revive old knightly ways. Blanche Leyroy debut and Leonard Craske as Isaacon give notable performances in this light, crowd-pleasing romp.
The week features Duds starring Tom Moore at Mod dern Theatre and The False Road a crook drama with Enid Bennett at Beacon Theatre.
Keiths Theatre presents an all star bill with Rae Samuels delivering standout singing and acting. Percy Bronson Winnie Baldwin in Visions of 1970 bring humorous sun parlor scenes set in a future aluminum building. The Love Shop, Honey Songs, and other acts complete a lively program with strong stage presence.
The three days run began last evening. Jacques Futrelle is the credited author of the original story. The Hawk is the elusive criminal figure in the tale. An organ recital by Arthur Martel was well received. Robert Warwick appeared in Thou Art the Man with Strand News Weekly and a witty comedy. Mary Pickford returns on Thursday to show Pollyanna and additional pictures by public request.
Audiences praised Maur ice Tourneur's My Lady's Garter and Tom Moore in Toby's Bow as the first half program at Fenway Theatre. Thursday brings Pollyanna with Mary Pickford and The Sporting Duchess with Alice Joyce, plus Beth Perry’s music for the final three days.
Geraldine Farrar appears for the first time on screen in Flame of the Desert at the Boston Theatre with Lou Tellegen as an Arab chief. Farrar plays a great English noblewoman in love, delivering dramatic and picturesque moments. The Mack Sennett comedy The Gingham Girl provides broad absurdities. Vaudeville features Olive Briscoe and Al Rauh plus a team of acts including Stevens and Lovejoy and Hilly Fern.
Demand for Barrymore’s dual role brings the Tark Theatre to show the film again at Park Theatre. Martha Mansfield leads the female role with charm. The program also includes a comedy, a two reel Flynn picture, a news weekly, the Paramount magazine, and a Park Theatre orchestra of 12 soloists.
Dustin Farnum headline at Central Square Theatre Cambridge with Winnifred Kingston as leading lady. Five vaudeville acts follow including Lad and Betty Shannon in A Vaudeville Surprise and other acts. An entire programme change is planned Thursday Friday and Saturday featuring The Yellow Room.
Vivian Martin appears in Husbands and Wives at Gordon's Olympia with an excellent vaudeville bill headed by Burt Gordon and Jean Ford in Recital Classique. Thiessen's dogs Ollie Young and April in Bubbleland and The Ar gone Tramps with McManus and McNulty also perform alongside Olympia News Weekly and a new comedy in the programme.
The first half of the week features Wallace Reid in Excuse My Dust and Katherine McDonald in The Thunderbolt. Thursday onward Louise Glaum appears in The Lone Wolf's Daughter followed by Constance Talmadge in A Temperamental Wife.
Audiences filled the Majestic Theatre for the musical comedy Honey Girl as a holiday celebration. The engagement runs this week and next, with all shows sold to capacity and crowds enjoying the cheerful production.
Arthur Richman’s charming romantic comedy set in Grant era New York begins its second week at Plymouth Theatre. Eva Le Gallienne and Sidney Blackmer star as lovers with a capable supporting cast delivering pleasing performances.
The Wilbur Theatre began the final two weeks of its engagement with strong audience turnout for Oh! Madame slated to open May 3. Georgia O Ramey leads the cast in the new musical comedy, signaling continued popularity for the romance-filled program.
The film edition of Charles P. Carey's melodrama In Old Kentucky played to capacity crowds at Tremont Temple yesterday entering its third week and confirming the old favorite's continued popular appeal.
William Farnum stars in Heart Strings at Bowdoin Square Theatre with Marion Davies in April Folly. The program includes The Lost City, The Painters, the Earlos acrobats and other vaudeville acts. Bargain features Friday night. next week Pollyanna with Mary Pickford.
William Courtenay leads a large crowd at Park Square Theatre in Civilian Clothes. Dorothy Dickinson as Florance Lanham and Frances Underwood as the widow deliver strong turns while a capable supporting cast includes Isabel Irving Raymond Walburn and Lloyd Neal.
Walter Hampden returns to Shakspere at Poston Opera House next Monday evening. Following a Broadway success with Hamlet, he will perform Hamlet nightly except Wednesday, which features Romeo and Juliet, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. The second week repertoire will be announced later.
The Globe Theatre showed The Inferior Sex starring Mildred Harris Chaplin and Would You Forgive featuring Vivian Rich. Later in the week Boston audiences can see David Wark Griffiths The Fall of Babylon at popular prices, paired with Wits vs. Wits with Marguerite Clark.
The Old South presents Constance Binney in The Stolen Kiss and Mme Sylvia in The Honey Bee for the first half of the week. Come Thursday through Saturday Tom Moore stars in Tobys Bow and Marion Davies in April Folly.
Marion Davies stars in April Folly with Margarita Fisher in The Hellion at the Washington Theatre. Also featured Thursday to Saturday are The Sporting Duchess with Alice Joyce and Mme. Sylvia in The Honey Bee as the picture attractions.
Priscilla Dean stars as a fearless stray in The Virgin of Stamboul shown last night at Scollay Square Olympia. The program featured Dunbar's Maryland Singers with Southern tunes, Sabbott and Brooks, Arthur Geary, Allman and Nevins, and Fanny Rice. Olympia weekly and a comedy reel rounded out the bill.
J Arthur Geis performs remarkable organ manipulations at Codman Square Theatre as Gladys Brockwell stars in The Devil's Riddle. The program includes a news pictorial and four acts of vaudeville. For the week's latter half Tom Mix appears in The Daredevil.
The play enters its third week at Tremont Theatre with strong praise from Bostonians. The notable cast includes Marion Green Blanche Tomlin John Clarke Lennox Pawle Robert Parker Marjorie Burgess Spencer Trevor and Yvan Servais.
The Hollis Street Theatre enters its tenth week of Bob with two packed houses as Mary Roberts Rinehart's ingenuous heroine navigates romance fueled by comic misadventures. Helen Hayes and her company bring all roles to life with exacting performance.
Fred Stone and the show Jack o Lantern enter the last week at the Colonial Theatre with seven performances left. The run breaks musical comedy attendance records in Heston. After 18 weeks last season the star returns for three weeks this year, signaling vast popularity. Following April 26 comes Listen Lester a new musical comedy already gaining fame locally.
In the final week at the Waldorf Theatre Danny Lund and his Musical Comedy company perform a musical farce paired with selected pictures. The show blends song and light comedy as it closes the engagement.
Barney Gerard's edition of Follies of the Day with Harry Welsh and George F Hayes headlines a burlesque week at Waldron's Casino. Welsh plays a pawnshop clerk who spurs entrepreneurial plays, leading to satirical routines based on Polly with a Past Going Up Business Before Pleasure and East Is West. The cast features numerous clever performers and a 20 plus member chorus of Love-Nest girls.
Alma Tell stars in Susan Lenox a dramatization by David Graham Phillips arriving at the Arlington Theatre. The show runs starting Wednesday April 26 with dress rehearsals Monday and Tuesday nights. The production is described as lavish in scale.
The final five performances at Arlington Theatre feature Mary Young John Craig and their company in The Outrageous Mrs Palmer by H Graham Gribble. After the run the production tours under Craig and the Messrs Shubert.
Loew's Columbia Theatre offered Dustin Farnum in Durand of the Bad Lands and Harry Carey in The Darkest Hour yesterday. Tonight Mary MacLaren in The Pointing Finger and Marjorie Daw in The Singer Princess. Wednesday and Thursday Alice Joyce in Slaves of Pride and Charlie Ray in Alarm Clock Andy. Friday The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes with Elaine Hammerstein and Frank Mayo in The Brute Breaker. Saturday Will Rogers in Jubile plus a late Goldwyn comedy and vaudeville acts.
Live humor and popular songs drew crowds yesterday as the Social Follies Burlesque Company staged a lively show at the Howard Atheneum. Boston boy Ben Rubin and star John Quigg received warm receptions, Ruth Addington impressed with her voice, and the Darras brothers wowed audiences with equilibrists acts. Also featured were Margie Coate Madlyn Worth Dooley Naimoia McGee Lonzo Cox and George Walsh in The Shark.
Admirers packed both shows at Franklin Park Theatre yesterday to see Mary Pickford in Pollyanna the first half of the week. The programme also features Larry Lemon's latest comedy and top vaudeville entertainment.
Temple Players presented Erstwhile Susan at Malden Auditorium to enthusiastic praise. Josephine Fox starred in a fitting role with strong versatility. The Pennsylvanian Dutch romance charm and humor captivated the crowd, with solid support from the cast.
The Artcraft Revue at Loew's Orpheum Theatre presented eight performers with strong voices performing selections from famous operas. Arthur J. Finn led acts including Bagpipes in the Trenches and The Mosquito Trust by Winn Shaw and Lester Barnard. Photoplay by Louis B. Mayer featured Mildred Harris Chaplin in The Inferior Sex with Griffith directing The Fall of Babylon to close the week.
The Exeter bill features Constance Talmadge in Two Weeks and Pauline Frederick in The Paliser Case along with Pathe and Ford weeklies. The remaining days spotlight Mary Pickford in Pollyanna Wallace Reid in Excuse My Dust and Pathe News and Prizma color reels.
Seymour Brown stars in Pardon Me at the St James Theatre this week with Nellie DeGragse Lillian Collins Charles Vaughn Margie DeGrace and a chorus of eight plus four high grade vaudeville acts. William Farnum appears in The Adventurer and The Gingham Girl with a St James News. Thursday through Saturday The Mystery of the Yellow Room will be shown with five new vaudeville acts Lost City comedy and news.
Mirth and frivolity filled the Gayety as Jacobs and Jermon opened a week with The Sporting Widows. Al K Hall and Charlie Mac keep patrons amused with lively burlesque, scenery, costumes, and tuneful melodies.
The Somerville Players at the Davis Square Playhouse delivered an entertaining and clever production that delighted an enthusiastic audience. Elise Bartlett starred as a young woman who habitually walks in her sleep, wearing fashionable night attire and facing humorous, precarious situations.
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