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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1913
Page
7
The Shubert Theatre opened the new season with Philip Bartholomae's Kiss Me Quick a light farce about moving picture players forming on a New York area estate. Helen Lowell leads the cast with Arthur Aylesworth and a capable company as lively suburban comedy unfolds.
Tremont Theatre opened another week of the matinee picture drama Quo Vadis last evening. The popular success grows as demand to witness the famous story increases. performances are scheduled twice daily.
Helen Pinge e heads her own company in The Girl and the Coach. Hulings trained seals display remarkable animal intelligence. Dotson and Gordon perform eccentric colored entertain ers. Tom Mahoney, the president of the hod carriers, appears with the Marshalls. Loews Boston Weekly and latest photo plays also featured.
Next Saturday Waldron's Casino will start its autumn winter season with an afternoon performance of The Follies of the Day. The venue has undergone a thorough renovation since last spring.
The Medford Boulevard Summer Theatre features The Newlyweds and Their Baby as the daily matinee and evening attraction. Principal cast includes Edwin Stanley Harold West Beattie Evans Chad Hubner W Orlamond R P Dawson Fred Evans and Bessie Calla.
After a trolley ride to Lexington Park, guests can see a current week vaudeville bill featuring Coates Keene and Johnson in a comedy singing and dancing act Earle and Bartlett in a comedy Irish sketch Kimball and Donovan nimble banjo manipulators Browning the dialect comedian In Barto President Wilsons double in comedy magic and new motion pictures.
The Globe programme for the week includes Brown Delmore and Brown in a new singing act Margarite and partner with athletic stunts Joe Pino an instrumentalist Bert brothers in a comedy hit Jack Wolf a noted foot juggler and other features. The picture section with local reel Pathe Weekly and various dramatic and comedy subjects offers good variety. The picture programme will be changed on Thursday.
Manager Dodge unveils a new cabaret bill led by Mile. Emerie featuring trapeze, wardrobe portions handed to spectators, with Bob and Effie Weston performing Tango and Texas Tommy. Contortionists Nice sisters and LaMont Frances duo join Sabrina the toe dancer in the lineup.
Open air theatre at Norumbega Park presents The Reforming of Father by Matt Ott. The show features musical comedy with pretty girls funny comediennes graceful dancers and several novelties.
Tremont Temple opened a new week of illustrated travel lectures with Russia as the inaugural subject. Remaining days include Prance Ireland Egypt Spain and London with programs each afternoon and evening.
The Machigonne and the General Lincoln operate hourly trips from Otis wharf 408 Atlantic avenue to Boston. The Relay Theatre adds a viva phone and singing picture machine with four weekly vaudeville and moving picture changes. Next Wednesday afternoon a baby contest will be held at the theatre.
Bowdoin Square Theatre patrons enjoyed a carnival of fun featuring the Merry Maids led by Lillie Sutherland and a large company. Fields and Hanson offered wholesome comedy while Carson and Brown and Count La Costa provided specialty acts. Dick Howard sang two original songs and a quality moving picture program completed the program.
The iron steamer Dorothy Bradford runs daily trips to Provincetown on Cape Cod serving stay at homes. It sails from Bay Line Wharf every weekday at 3 A.M. and Sundays at 9 50 A.M. making this excursion one of the season’s popular options.
Condit's Ballroom at Revere Beach offers cooling sea breeze relief from heat with dancing nightly and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. The venue features popular music led by a widely known New England leader, drawing thousands of patrons seeking a lively social scene.
President Wilson sends Lind and Mrs. Lind to Mexico by rail via New Orleans or Galveston to explain U S opposition to recognizing Huerta. Prominent Mexicans urge Huerta to step down for a provisional executive. Lind may mediate if peace efforts fail while arms to factions are denied and Wilson signals future policy.
Nahant town meeting ends with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge telling a Post reporter he will not visit Governor Foss in Washington. Lodge dismisses rumors of Foss seeking the Republican nomination and says he knows nothing beyond what he has read in newspapers.
Sheinwald’s Big Store at 4 Summer Street reopened after five weeks of operations in a temporary location following last spring’s fire. The new, spacious shop can handle over 200 customers at once and features large, well lit display areas. Rain reduced attendance, so the opening extended to today and tomorrow with candy for customers and similar treats planned.
Hundreds of settlers staked claims as 10 000 acres in Hamilton County Kansas were opened by the government today. The crowd behaved amicably and the scene lacked the usual land opening excitement.
Governor Foss writes to Charles Sumner Bird urging him to run as a Republican to unite progressive forces. He argues a direct primary is endangered by third party candidacies and warns that such moves would disrupt the GOP and undermine reform. He recalls his own 1910 shift and negates merger talks, favoring continued Progressive action within one of the two major parties.
The traveler Mears completes a globe crossing aided by many carriers and officials. He departs New York July 2 aboard Cunard’s Mauretania, passes through London Paris and Berlin, reaches St. Petersburg, endures delays on the Trans Siberian line and Empress of Russia, then sails to Victoria and Seattle before a planned return to New York to claim the record.
A sailing schedule traces the voyage from New York aboard the Mauretania on July 2 to Chicago by August 5 with stops in Fishguard Paris Berlin St. Petersburg Vladivostok Manchuria Harbin Yokohama Victoria and Seattle. Delays for washouts and weather are noted along the route.
The Jones Peterson and Newhall Co. relocate to 49 and 51 Temple Place with a modern fitting area and direct overhead lighting. The store expands to include hosiery buckles and bows for party slippers alongside boots and shoes for men and women.
A three hour blaze at F Diehl and Son coal yards in Wellesley last night burned 50 pungs stored for summer and destroyed many sheds. Damage is estimated at $7000.
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