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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1918
Page
6
Pollyanna, famed for its hopeful tale, reopened at Tremont Theatre last evening for a two week run. The story of the little waif Porter described has aged into a familiar, comforting perennial enjoyed by both young and old.
Patricia Collinge portrays Pollyanna with restrained charm and artistry, avoiding mawkish excess. Oswald Yorke and Katherine Rober lead a strong cast in the Tremont production, supported by Beatrice Morahan and others as the ensemble.
The message emphasizes liberty bonds funding the army and navy, highlighting the defence of citizens and their families through patriotic financial support during wartime. The note frames bonds as essential tools for national security and personal protection.
Bessie McCoy returns to Boston at B F Keiths this week with A Period Dance Revue and a cast including John Merkyl, Thomas Conkey, and The Wayward Concert. Acts range from dancing duets to blackface vaudeville, with Moran and Mack, The Lynette sisters, and other specialty numbers. Nan Halperin to headline next week with a Chaplin feature.
The principal photo attraction at the Boston Theatre yesterday was K Mary Roberts Rinehart's hospital life adaptation. Screen title The Doctor and the Woman. Vaudeville headlines feature Bill Blithers, Lawyer with Robert Henry Hodge as Blithers, plus the Corn Cobb Cutups eight whirl wind dancers and a film comedy with Archie and Gertie Malis.
The Park Theatre program features Alice Brady in The Trap with Edith Storey in Treasure of the Sea. Douglas Fairbanks offers The Mystery of the Leaping Fish comedy. Madame Calvert sings, Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew perform, and the Park Symphony Orchestra delivers a pleasing overture all week.
Vaudeville listings preview William Harte in The Patriot a brisk thrilling American drama. Billy West returns to Boston in The Orderly a comedy with laughs. The Tangled Army Mile Elmira and Company jugglers Wilbur Sweetman musical numbers William Lytell and company At the Club Jenks and Allen Our Country Cousins and Olympia News Weekly headline the program.
A vintage ad touts Tiz foot bath as the cure for burning corns bunions and inflamed feet. It claims immediate relief from pain swelling and soreness and encourages readers to buy a 25 cent box at drug or department stores.
The Henry Jewett Players at the Copley Theatre staged Sheridan's School for Scandal last evening. The cast, led by Fred W. Permain as Sir Peter Teazle and Miss F Hunter-Watts as Lady Teazle, delivered the witty old English comedy with smooth pacing and sharp humor. Other principals included N. Murray Stephen as Joseph Surface, H. Conway Wingfield as Charles Surface, and Nicholas Joy as Snake with a strong ensemble supporting.
The Gayety Theatre opened a week of The Big Burlesque Review with two acts of fun and music. Stars include Harry K. Morton and Manny Kohler delivering laughs in a lively Irish char acter and clever routines. Zella Russell, Flossie Everett, and Julia DeKelety head the engaging company.
The Franklin Park Theatre sustains its reputation this week with live entertainment. Mabel Normand appears in The Floor Below, Fatty Arbuckle stars in The Bell Boy, and vaudeville features The Edwards Ray and Pagana with violin and piano Harris and Lyman comedians and DeWinters and Rose dancers.
Arthur Bernadi leads the St James Theatre half week program featuring Davis and Stanford in The Golden Bird a variety skit by Hattie Kirchner Perkoff and Gray Bassett and Bailey and the latest news pictorial a comedy and the photoplay Today starring Florence Reed screen presentations complete the bill
Patrons enjoy the Castle Square Theatre bill for the week with Harold Lockwood in The Landloper from Holman Day, Bessie Love in The Great Adventure, and a Mark Sennett comedy titled Friend Husband.
Tremont Temple continues to draw crowds twice daily with Tremont Temple showing My Four Years in Germany. The film adapts the ex ambassador Gerard life into a vivid narrative and promotes Liberty bonds with the slogan Beat the gun with dollars.
A lively Howard Atheneum program featured Darlings of Paris Burlesquers in a top season show. Matt Kolb drew strong praise for wit and speed, with Tom Howard and Mildred Gilmore among highlighted acts. A varied bill included the Gloom Destroyer chorus, Rutan's Song Birds, Chief Tenderhoe, Collins and Manning, Ruth Goodwin, Haney and Long, and Frankel among others.
The Olympia shows a varied bill headlined by The Woman and the Law from De Saulles lore and The Orderly with Billy West. It features Vera De Bessiani in opera, Harry Brooks and Company in The Old Minstrel, Exela sisters acrobats, Grant Gardner blackface act, Long Tack Sam, and the Steiner duo, plus Olympia News Weekly and other pictures.
The Kuma Four led a vaudeville bill at Loew's Orpheum Theatre yesterday. The Oriental quartet, billed as wonder workers, performed with Al White and company presenting The Answer. Harris and Manion drew laughs with Uncle Jerry at the Opry while Charles Reilly, La Mont and Wright, and the Three Steppers offered songs, comedy, singing, and a catchy dance. A News Pictorial, a comedy, and the photoplay The Kaiser the Beast of Berlin played on screen.
Howsavere shows the competition among burlesque producers with a lively two act attraction at Waldron's Casino this week. The program features a bright musical burletta In Doll Land blending farce melodrama and travesty for constant laughter.
Boston embraces So Long Letty at the Shubert Theatre with a delighted audience. The show features Charlotte Greenwood and her associates renewing former successes with piquant scenes and lively music drawing pronounced appreciation.
The homely comedy Keep Her Smiling proves popular with general theatre goers as large audiences attend every Wilbur Theatre performance. The stage return of Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew meets with strong audience approval and they seem to have more friends than when they played on screen.
Tarzin of the Apes remains the feature at the Globe Theatre. The photoplay is a weld yet interesting picture with unique situations and has proved highly popular. It is finely acted by the players and includes some wonderful scenes.
The unique crook comedy Cheating Cheaters plays its final week at Park Square Theatre in Boston. The production has won praise for its surprising story and the strong acting by the presenting company.
This week's Exeter Theatre programme features Kathryn Williams and Eliott Dexter in Cecil DeMille's The Whispering Chorus George Beban in One More American William S Hart in The Tiger Man and Madge Kennedy in The Danger Game plus Pathe News Sidney Drew and Strand comedies.
D. W. Griffith’s photoplay Parts of the World plays at the Majestic Theatre with strong attendance in the first week. Yesterday’s figures suggest larger crowds expected this week as the run continues in this city.
The show adapts a popular past play Excuse Me into a musical comedy. Edgar Allen Woolf penned the new version with Jerome Kern supplying the music. Added material includes soldiers and a khaki clad lieutenant as the central suitor.
City Council hears Finance Commission findings on Grady request for 192 additional firefighters and 30 vacancies. Mayor Peters approves 142 of Grady’s men and 140000 for motor equipment while erasing most salary boosts. legality of a one day off in three ordinance questioned. union wages noted by Councillor Hagan.
A colorful review of the eastbound train themed musical comedy Toot Toot. Dancers from the Greek school and a lively female chorus provide action and color. Paul Frawley Louise Allen lead a youthful pair with Barrett Greenwood and Louise Groody in support. The cast features Zoe Barnett Eddie Garvie Rose Kessner Billy Kent and Henry Fern. The show praises the dancing voices and military roll call while noting light entertaining fare.
Elsie Ferguson appeared yesterday in The Song of Songs at Bowdoin Square Theatre. The program also featured Douglas Fairbanks in The Half Breed and Fatty Arbuckle in The Country Hero and The Clutch of Terror. The Animated Weekly and vaudeville acts by Sam and Lou Lamert and The Singing Miner complemented a varied bill.
Marguerite Clark leads the week at the Modern Theatre in Rich Man Poor Man with Wallace Reid in The House of Silence as amateur sleuth and accompanying short comedies and news pictures.
The Washington Theatre screens The Law of the Great Northwest featuring Margery Wilson with quaint French Canadian types and striking scenic effects. May Allison also appears in Social Hypocrites.
The Plymouth Theatre drew a large afternoon crowd on Patriots Day despite the military procession. The play The Man Who Came Back has settled into a long run, attracting steady patronage in Boston.
Roy Stewart stars in the Old South Theatre drama Boss of Lazy V at the Washington Theatre, showcasing a wide range of acting power. Dorothy Dalton also appears in Love Me, adding to the versatile program.
The notice urges readers to buy Liberty bonds now to secure financial protection for their households in the years ahead. It emphasizes personal responsibility and the value of investing for loved ones.
London April 22 Andrew Bonar Law in the House of Commons introduced the budget calling it the largest in world history. He said U.S. aid to the allies had been fulfilled amid Britain's loans totaling £505 million over the past year and the United States had advanced £950 million to all the allies.
The chancellor says Britain’s war finances rely on allied support, proposing changes with the United States to cut loan burden. Figures show revenue up to £707,234,565, while Bonar Law outlines Germany’s costs and Russia debt prospects, arguing for postwar capital help and orderly repayment.
Two attractive photoplays will be shown all week at the Beacon Theatre. Rich Man, Poor Man features Marguerite Clark in the lead, while The House of Silence stars Wallace Reid. Both programs are described as of an interesting nature.
The Columbia Theatre presents a two film program for the first half of the week featuring The Blue Bird and The Girl in the Dark starring Carmel Meyers.
Alexandra Carlisle in Her Country Cousin showcases Booth Tarkington humor as crowds fill a large audience at Hall Street for another week of the engagement last night.
At the Lancaster Theatre yesterday the program featured A Camouflage Kiss starring June Caprice as one of two women in love with a single man. Also shown was The Shell Game with Emmy Webblen in the cast.
In England the populace is urged to provide funds to the government as loans at interest, highlighting a distinction between outright taxation and lending. The remark frames fiscal policy as a voluntary financial contribution rather than compulsory payment.
A Columbus report states Miss Dorothy Dana wed Captain James H. Walton of the U S Medical Corps on a Saturday. Walton, an associate chemistry professor on leave from the University of Wisconsin, will work in poison gas defense in Washington. Dana, from Muskegon, Michigan, is an honor student. her brother Lieutenant Dana also married at the same time.
Lively advertisement claims Freezone instantly stops corn pain with a few drops, allowing a finger removal. It touts a small bottle sold by druggists for a few cents and presents Freezone as a revolutionary Cincinnati discovery with no pain or irritation.
Nellie B. Brittingham of Baltimore says five bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her organic troubles nervousness and headaches after a doctor urged surgery. She warns women to consider the remedy before consenting to an operation and to tell friends of its benefits.
An ad promises rapid relief for rheumatic pains using Sloan's Liniment. It claims counter irritation reduces swellings and stiffness with no rubbing, leaves no mess, and stains-free skin. The product comes in 25c 50c and 1.00 sizes via any druggist.
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