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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1920
Page
19
The OCR fragment lists rail lines, stations, and utilities with scattered numbers like 30ND MA Cen Ga 58 Mobd, Pacific lines, Am T & T references, and various codes. It reads as a cataloged timetable or directory snippet showing routes, company names, and track sections with partial city markers and percentages. The text is heavily garbled but centers on transportation infrastructure and operator identifiers.
The Temple Stock company opened its eighth season at the Malden Auditorium with Thompson Buchanan's Civilian Clothes. Adelyn Bushnell received the warmest greeting for her role as the society girl who marries an army officer played by Dwight Meade. Other veterans Josephine Fox Duncan Penwarden Clarence Chase and Jack Mathews were praised while Marguerite Wolf and John Lott joined the cast.
Opening at the Gayety Theatre yesterday afternoon featured Billy Watson in Parisian Whirl with a new comedy and fresh principals. The show includes a familiar cast and a notable chorus led by Elsa Lavendau, Anna Armstrong, Patsy Ayers and Audrey Gilman, plus Martini and Sinai in a musical production.
The Tremont Theatre closes the sensational Mary with George M. Cohan after ending its peak run. Four matinees are scheduled this week including tomorrow Thursday Friday and Saturday afternoons. On August 30 Henry W. Savage's Shavings takes the stage.
Georges Carpentier hailed as gentle man of the ring in The Wonder Man, a convincing portrayal at the Modern and Beacon Theatres yesterday. Carpentier plays a French secret service man and displays physique and boxing tricks that may win the world title. Dorothy Dalton stars in Guilty of Love.
Patrons enjoyed a high class vaudeville bill at Loew's Orpheum Theatre featuring Wells Virginia and West, Carson and Fairchild, Edwin Tedding and company in Prosperity, ventriloquist Grace De Wintres, Roy Harrah and company, and Al Conrad. Olive Thomas starred in Darling Mine a headline photoplay. The bill will be changed on Thursday.
A raid on a gambling den in The Family Honor leads to arrests and the death of an officer. The show at Gor don's Scollay Square Olympia unfolds with villagers youths and professionals exposed during the raid. Olympia Weekly lists five vaudeville acts and other pictures on the program.
The Park Square Theatre runs the bright little comedy My Lady Friends in its final week with Jack Norworth and associates delivering wholesome humor. Monday presents the Princess Theatre farce Nightie Night expurgated for general audiences with an excellent company promised.
This week at the St James Theatre the first half features Parlor Bedroom and Bath with praise for Jiggs the Social Lion from Bringing Up Father. The program includes vaudeville with Marietta Craig company Alf Ricardo Lamont and Bradbury Brooks and Stilwell and the Elvira sisters. Thursday William Russell stars in Twins of Suffering Creek alongside Dempsey, a new comedy, news and vaudeville.
Announcement says Loew's Columbia Theatre opens Thursday at noon with a new policy for the season. It swaps daily photoplays for high class vaudeville and latest photo productions with two changes weekly. Sunday concerts continue with a long list of vaudeville and photoplays.
Miss Talmadge stars in a two part photoplay shown to a large audience at Gordon's Strand Uphams Corner last night. The program will be repeated today and Wednesday. Thursday introduces Alice Brady in The Dark Lantern, promising another headline feature.
Today and tomorrow mark the last chances to hear Ruth Joan and to see Douglas Fairbanks in The Mollydell and Eugene O Brien in The Figurehead. Thursday a new bill will be presented with Jack Pickford in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Fighting Chance.
Pat White and his Gaiety Girls were warmly welcomed at the Howard Atheneum where the Shamrock Chorus received an enthusiastic reception. The burlesque and bright comedy featured a capable cast as manager G E Lothrop Jr presented a vaudeville bill with Bartelli on the wire Scanlon Deen brothers and Scanlon. McGowan Cheney and Wallace Reid rounded out the program with the film The Lottery Man.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presented Below the Surface with Hobart Bosworth in the lead. The film offers stunning underwater wrecks, rescues, sub sea scenes and sunken treasure chases. Also shown were Homer Comes Home with Charles Ray and The Vanishing Dagger, plus a Mack Sennett comedy. vaudeville featured Professor Andrews and acts by Lewis Henderson Ross Tadue and others. Next Monday The Superman opens card.
Waldron's Casino features Jack Singer and Harry Lander in a scenic burlesque season. Lander performs a wire walk canal heat scene and new illusion. Amata Pynes leads as prima donna with Bobby Moore and a chorus of dancers.
Mary Pickford appears as Mavis Hawn in Heart o the Hills at Gordon's Old South Theatre Boston last night. The tale follows Mavis as she seeks to avenge her father with obstacles from grafters, a corrupt mountaineer, and unwholesome influences. Arthur J. Martel played a recital on the organ between segments.
Al Sheehan longtime Tremont business manager and new Loew's Globs Theatre resident manager announces Pitter Patter as the inaugural show at the revamped theatre. The musical version of Caught in the Rain opens Monday afternoon September 6 for a limited engagement as workmen redecorate the house and exterior.
Seats are on sale at the Somerville Theatre for the play Civilian Clothes by the Somerville Players as the first stock-season attraction starting Monday afternoon August 2. The company will be led by Anne Bronaugh and Carrol Ashburn with John Gordon and George Weatherald returning, joined by new members Mabel Colcord Terese Van Grove Helen Joy Gerry Cornell and W. W. Gerald.
The melody play Kissing Time started its third week at the Shubert Theatre last evening. William Norris Frank Doane and Harry Coleman lead the fanmakers while Dorothy Maynard Edith Taliaferro and Paul Frawley carry the score. The engagement will be brief and is to be followed by Fay Bainter in East Is West.
Norumbega Park features Polish tenor Stantsas Berino and Tozer soprano from the Metropolitan Opera this week. Also appearing are Charles F. Seamon “The Narrow Feller” and Shan Toy. Early program shows The Riders of the Dawn. later The Toll Gate with William S. Hart. Kids’ picture at 11:30 today and Friday is Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Shipman leads the company as the shop girl with aspirations realized and delivers her best Boston performance yet. The plot is pleasing with romance, music bright and entertaining, and the presenting organization appears competent.
Tremont Temple will run Shin wrecked Among the Cannibals for one more week after urgent public demand. The billed thriller also promises instruction about a largely unknown race, and the engagement cannot continue beyond this week.
The Park Theatre presents Ethel Clayton in More Deadly Than the Male with a plot about an actress urging an old friend to settle down. Midweek shows feature Victory, followed by Marguerite Clark in Luck in Pawn for Friday and Saturday performances.
The Pilgrim presents Aida in honor of the terecentennial at Braves Field a week from tomorrow on Wednesday evening September 1. Advance sales signal a record crowd for the first open air Italian opera in the city.
The Codman Square Theatre featured a heat vaudeville quartet with Gladys Brockwell star in A Sister to Salome. Brockwell handles a difficult role with consummate skill in the top-line photo production. A complete change of bill is promised for Thursday.
The Majestic opened its season in Boston with The Little Whopper, a charming production by Otto A. Harbach Rudolph Friml and Bide Dudley. The show travels from other cities and features clever situations and pleasing music for its first Boston presentation.
Kitty Wentworth and Janet MacGregor scheme to miss class for a lover’s voyage. They swap rooms with a woman hater, causing mistaken marriage claims and comic chase to a judge. Vivienne Segal stars with a lively cast, delivering an amusing farce with music and dance.
W Somerset Maughams amusing comedy Smith was presented by the Henry Jewett Players at the Copley Theatre last evening as the second production of the season. Viola Roach played Smith with firmness and artistry. Nicholas Joy as Freeman displayed easy mannerisms in his portrayal. Elma Royton portrayed Mrs Baker and Henway Wingfield starred as Herbert Baker. May Ediss, Lyonel Watts, E B Cleve, Emily Chapman and Blanche LeRoy filled supporting roles with evident skill.
Mildred Harris Chaplin stars as Polly Hopkins in Polly of the Storm Country at Gordon's Olympia. The drama centers on a tormented heroine amid a chorus of vaudeville acts in a five act bill presented by the Olympia Weekly.
Norma Talmadge appeared in two distinct characterizations in Yes or No at Gordon's Central Square Theatre last evening. A full bill change followed featuring Milt Collins in The Patriot and Not to Be Taken Seriously by Holmes and Houston, the Maxwell Five in At the Club, and Ernest and Stearns with Parlor Bedroom and Bath.
The Arlington Theatre continues its run of Turn to the Right with a selected company. Next week ends the current engagement and on Sept 1 Mrs Jimmie Thompson, a new piece to Boston, is billed as highly amusing.
At the Lancaster Theatre a Sunday program featured William S Hart in Sand and Billie Burke in Away Goes Prudence. An all new bill arrives Thursday with Ethel Clayton in A Ladder of Lies and Douglas McLean with Doris May in Lets Be Fashionable.
Manager Butler organizes a 60 mile three nation race at Revere cycle track featuring Italy France and America. Italian riders Madonna and Colombatto will wear the Italian colors while Didier and Lavalade fly the French tri color and Chapman and Lawrence ride for the United States. The event opens the program alongside the usual amateur and professional races.
The notes list months and new moon dates Sept 12 and Oct 11 with new moon dates Aug 29 Sept 27 Oct 27. Evening stars include Saturn Venus and Mars while the morning star is Jupiter.
Heavy fresh groundfish receipts opened at South Boston pier with haddock plentiful and steamers in South Channel reporting abundant variety. Prices ranged with haddock 2 to 4 cents per pound, cod 6 to 6 cents, mackerel up to 26 cents last week, and swordfish at 25.60 per pound on a strong ex vessel showing. Arrivals included multiple steamer loads and vessel counts across several boats.
Shipping data lists steamers and tugs arriving at and sailing from New York and nearby ports. Vessels include Calvin Austin New York Cam ien Bangor Governor Dingley Eastport Lu bee St John N B Grecian Norfolk Lake Metford Preston Cuba Prince George Yarmouth N S and Salinas Port Lobos Mex with tows and barges bound for Liverpool Glasgow Portland and Newport R I.
The Hollis Street Theatre opens its season next Monday with a two week run of Three Wise Fools. The John Golden comedy returns with the same cast including Claude Gillingwater Howard Gould and Harry Davenport.
The Exeter Theatre features Anita Stewart in The Yellow Tycoon and Tom Moore in The Great Accident through Wednesday. The week continues with Tom Mix in Three Gold Coin and Madge Kennedy in The Truth with Patsy the Weekly at each performance.
Look Who's Flere returns to Boston on Labor Day afternoon to open the new season at the Plymouth Theatre with Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield leading the cast.
Ice George Laxton known as The Black Sheep clashes with Norah Ackroyd over love and wealth. Laurie Fenton schemes to save Barton Manor by colluding with Norah’s father, Mr Ackroyd. Secrets, jealousy, and a costly web of engagements unfold at a fashionable cafe gathering.
Tensions rise at breakfast as Laur ie Fenton's letter hints a plotting scheme. Rodney reveals Ackroyd's role and Norah's meeting while Meredith presses Laxton for truth about Laurie Fenton debts and a possible arranged scene.
The black sheep, furious over a hidden betrayal, storms Ackroyd’s office and orders immediate atonement or exposure. Ackroyd resists, warning of messy consequences if Miss Fenton’s name is dragged into the dispute and insisting the accusation be proven.
The Mastersingers opened their 10th Boston engagement at Keith's, sharing top billing with Homer B. Mason and Marguerite Keeler. The program features soloists and many new songs, plus Mason and Keeler’s latest comedy farce Married. Also on the bill are George Lane Tom Moran Listen Mickey, Francis Renault as a female impersonator Rose Clare Looking Ahead Arthur Havel and brother and the team Martin Moore McRae and Clegg.
The Boston Theatre features Youth's Desire as the leading photo play and comedy drama. Star Joseph Bennett headlines with a vaudeville bill including Bison City Four Claude and Marion dancing act Greenlee and Drayton colored dancers Winfred Dubois premier and news pictures Topica as attractions.
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