Romantic Film at the Boston Theatre Tonight Reckless Youth
Wayne Hammerstein stars in Reckless Youth at the Boston Theatre this week a romance of youth and love beginning with a girl dismissed from a private school. The plot follows her return to a country estate and defiance of family rules amid youthful rebellion. Chaplin appears in Pay Day and a vaudeville lineup features Liddell and Gibson Olive Briscoe Al Raih and others including The Golden Gate Trio and On the Streets of New York.
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Wayne Hammerstein
Boston
Chaplin
Liddell
Gibson
Vaudevillie
Exeter Street Theatre Early Week Showings
Wesley Barry stars in Booth Tarkington's Period and Charlee Chaplin in Pay Day for the first three days. Harold Soya appears in A Sailor Made Man and Clara Kimball Young stars in The Worldly Madonna for the last three days.
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Eizeter Street
Wesley Barry
Booth Tarkington
Charlee Chaplin
Harold Soya
Clara Kimball Young
Foolish Wives at Lancaster Theatre Provokes Crowd
A Lancaster Theatre program presents Foolish Wives, featuring a U S Marine on a cave mission at Monte Carlo. The intense first scene stirs anger while the concluding sequence moves the audience to tears and applause.
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Lancaster Theatre
Cave
Monte Carlo
Pink Pills Help Concord Woman With Nervous Pain
Mrs Belle Co M of 1 Cedar Street Concord New Hampshire credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with easing neuritis in her right shoulder blade and restoring color and strength. She reports the pain faded and vanished after a short course and urges others to try the remedy priced sixty cents with free booklet offered by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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Belle Co. M
Cedar Street
Concord
N. H
Digestive aid promotes strength and neighborly goodwill
It helps you digest your food, builds up your strength and seat up go your neighbor. For sale at all good druggists.
Sally Opens at Colonial in Boston
The Boston debut of Sally at the Colonial Theatre mirrors its long New York run. Leon Errol, Walter Catlett, Irving Fisher, and Dolores head a polished cast in a lavish, stylish musical comedy praised as a likely sensation.
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Sally
Boston
Colonial Theatre
New Amsterdam Theatre
New York
Marilynn Miller
Gotham
Leon “Errol Je
Walter Catlett
Errol
Irving Fisher
Dolores
Ziegfelds Follies Entrancing Boston Crowd With Sally Tale
Boston critics praise Sally as a charming tale of a dish washer who rises through clever matchmaking by a duke and impresario. Marilynn Miller stars in the title role with the Butterfly Ballet finale lauded for its beauty. the show charms audiences though its abundance challenges full viewing.
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Ziegfeld
Sally
Boston
Marilynn Miller
Keith's Jubilee Week Vaudeville Bill Stars Eltinge
Julian Elinge leads Keith's Theatre jubilee vaudeville week celebrating the circuit's 30th anniversary. The program features new gowns and songs by Eltinge, the comedy Show-Off, Rice Pudding by Maude Muller and Ed Stanley, Frank De Voe, Harry Horsford, Dave Roth, the Cansinos dancing, and a finale with a dazzling transformation. Also shown are a news reel, Aesop's Fables, and Topics of the Day.
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Julian Elinge
Keith's
Keith
Eltinge
Maude Muller
Ed Stanley
Frank de Voe
Harry
Olympia Shows Spook Comedy At Sign of the Jack o’Lantern
The Gordon's Olympia program featured At the Sign of the Jack o’Lantern a ghostly yet funny photoplay about newlyweds besieged by relatives with clever tricks and a touch of mystery. Helen Coyne starred in Fellow Girl with vivid costumes. Also shown were Old Ideas Renewed by the Denno brothers and Scanlon and Charley Chaplin in Pay Day, a laborer’s comic misadventure with his uncooperative feet.
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Gordon's Olympia
Helen Coyne
Denno Brothers
Scanlon
Charley Chaplin
Charlie
Charley
Theodora at Fenway and Chaplin on Pay Day
The Fenway Theatre showed Theodora Sardou’s sensational love romance with Charlie Chaplin in Pay Day. A soloist pleased the audience and the usual short subjects entertained. Thursday’s program includes Sessue Hayakawa in The Vermilion Pencil Irene Castle in French Heels and Chaplin in Pay Day.
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Fenway Theatre
Theodora
Sardou
Charlie Chaplin
Sessue Hayakawa
Irene Castle
One Fifth of Income for Rent Urged by Exposition Speaker
Miss Alice Denham of the Association for the Protection of Savings warned at the Home Beautiful Exposition that spending more than one fifth of income on rent harms budgets for clothing food and education. She advised buyers to limit home purchases to twice annual income and noted upkeep costs push ownership toward a tenth of home price. The event also featured a Baby Fashion Show with winners in four and six year old divisions and a special class winner from Canton.
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Alice Denham
Association For’ the Protection of Savings
Micheline Daly
Albert Avenue
Revere
Maria Griffin
Third Street
South Boston
Valerie Armstrong
Fellsway
Medford
Jeane Brown
Canton
Miss Denham
Talbot Hall
Dorothy Tyrrell
Morrisville
Vermont
Mechanics Building
Florence Cullen
N. Joe Jones
Eldean Campbell
Sawing Woman and Chaplin At Bowdoin Square
Hundreds attended Bowdoin Square Theatre to see Sawing a Woman in Half the biggest novelty at the house. Charlie Chaplin in Pay Day delighted audiences. Rudolph Valentino and Dorothy Dalton starred in Moron of the Lady Letty with other acts including Watson and St Elva and Elizabeth Reardon. Next Friday features extra acts and next week Charles Murray appears in person.
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Bowdoin ‘Square Theatre
Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino
Dorothy Dalton
Watson
St. Elva
Elizabeth Reardon
Callahan
DeRoma
Lewis and Brown
Charles Murray
Mack Sennett
Snappy Show at Waldron's Burlesque and Film Mix
At Waldron's Casino yesterday a three in one continuous performance featured The Golden Crooks burlesque with dazzling staging and costumes. A lively musical score had patrons humming hits as song numbers and dance routines showcased a chorus of beauties. A Roy Stewart Kathleen Kirkham film Back to Yellow Jacket followed, with next Sunday promising a testimonial for Lawrence De Cane, Casino treasurer.
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Waldron’s
Roy Stewart
Kathleen Kirkham
Lawrence de Cane
Pay Day at the Old South heads the week’s bill
Charles Chaplin’s Pay Day leads the program at the Old South Theatre this week with a second feature The Man From Downing Street starring Harle Williams. The espionage tale follows a young secret service recruit to India to uncover a traitor behind leaked British codes, featuring romance and disguise among Indian royalty.
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Charles
Chaplin
Gordon
Old South Theatre
Downing Street
Harle Williams
India
Chaplin Play at Orpheum Chaplin Play at Orpheum
Charlie Chaplin stars in Pay Day at Loew's Orpheum this week a short riotous comedy. Corine Griffith appears in Island Wives set in the South Sea Islands where a wife reunites with her first husband after mistaken death then marries an officer. The Kirkemith Sisters sing and dance plus five vaudeville acts and the Pathe Weekly complete the bill.
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Charlie Chaplin
Loew’s Orpheum
Charlie
Corine Griffith
America
South Sea Islands
Kirkemith
Pathe Weekly
Constance Binney Stars In The Jeep Walker At Modern Beaudon
Constance Binney plays Doris Dumond a somnambulist in The Jeep Walker at the Modern and Beadon Theatres this week. She wanders through rooms and cornices as danger looms from a villain with threatening papers. Jack Mulhall is the heroic counterpart. Also shown Yellow Men and Gold a melodrama featuring buried treasure and a band of crooks. Helene Chadwick and Richard Dix shine. Chaplin appears in Pay Day for the comedy.
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Constance Binney
Modern
Beadon
Doris Dumond
Miss Binney
Doris
Jack Mulhall
Helene Chadwick
Richard ‘Dix
Charlie Chaplin
Great Bill at State Theatre
Betty Compson stars in The Green Temptation as an Apache girl who becomes the dancing rage of Paris. The film follows the pursuit of an emerald by crooks and detectives with startling scenes and costumes. Theodore Kosloff and Mahlon Hamilton co star. Herbert Rawlinson leads The Mad Under Cover as a reforming crook. Current Events and Spooks add a comedy.
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Betty Compson
Paris
Loew's
State Theatre
Rooks
Miss Compson
Theodore Kosloff
Mahlon Hamilton
Herbert Rawlinson
Crook
Foolish Wives Opens at Gordon's Strand and Central Square
Strand and Central Square theaters presented Foolish Wives last night for a week long run. The film showcases Erich von Stroheim as author director and star, praised as a screen masterpiece with a kaleidoscopic array of settings and expert characterization. The program also includes vaudeville acts and a photoplay.
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Gordon's Strand
Gordon's Central Square Theatres
Erich von Stroheim
Vera Gordon Stars in Your Best Friend Private Screening
A private Tremont Temple screening of Vera Gordon’s Your Best Friend will be attended by clergy, city and state officials, and top New England theatre managers. Gordon plays a widow told her son has married, leading to a series of complications and a happy ending.
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New England
Vera Gordon
Tremont Temple
Miss Gordon
Flapper Girls at the Howard Flaunt Stage Fun
Radiant with smiles the Howard Follies performers energized the Howard Athenaeum with a cordial reception. Burlesque acts and comedians Lee Hickman Scotty Friedel Fred Binder Ralph Rogers and others kept the house laughing as 18 girls opened and closed the burletta. Manager G B Lothrop Jr presented a vaudeville bill featuring the Three Weber Girls Hal Sherman Eddie O Rourke and Warman and Mack with Harry Carey in Desperate Trails.
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Howard Anthenaeum
Lee Hickman
Scotty Friedel
Fred Binder
Ralph Rogers
Margaret Hastings
Hallie Deane
Ethel de Veaux
Pep Bedford
Ernestine Caru
Elsie Donnelly
William Mack
Bob Williams
Harry Sevon
Teddy Russell
G. B. Lothrop, Jr
Weber Girls
Hal Sherman
Eddie O’rourke
Warman
Mack
Harry Carey
Fortune Hunter revival attracts Boston theatregoers at St James
The revival of The Fortune Hunter at St James Theatre draws instant approval from Boston audiences. Walter Gilbert leads as Nat Duncan with strong support from Ann Mason Viola Roach and a cast delivering sharp character studies in a story of fortune lost and a plan to marry the richest girl in town.
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St. James Theatre
Boston
St. James
Walter Gilbert
Nat Duncan
Gilbert
Ann Mason
Betty Graham
Viola Roach
Josie Lockwood
Nat
Mark Kent
Sam Graham
Ralph Remley
Clever. Show at Majestic Cleaver. Show at Majestic
The cameo review The Midnight Rounders headlines the Majestic Theatre. Harry Hines and Jean Carroll lead a lively bill with clever dancing by Jack Keller Virginia Banks and Alice Ridner. The Rath Brothers perform feats of strength and Helen Bley showcases vocal talent. Jean Carroll and her group close with dancing singing and candy kisses.
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Majestic Theatre
Boston
Harry Hines
Jack Keller
Jean Carroll
Virgie Banks
Alice Ridner
Green
Blyler
Rath Brothérs
Helen Bley
Davey White
Weldona praised as cure for chronic rheumatism
Boston man Philip Snow recounts severe rheumatism pain that confined him to bed until Weldona relieved symptoms. He praises the remedy as the “Wonder Worker,” claims return to work, and encourages others to try Weldona from 132 Boylston St. Boston Mass with a free book offer and public demonstrations at Houghton & Dutton drug dept.
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Weldona
Weldona Co
Boylston St
Boston
Mass
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