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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1917
Page
5
The long run at the Copley Theatre nears close as the repertory season opens Saturday evening Dec. 22 with Fanny's First Play. The war play has set a record for continuous performances and weather resilience.
The Tremont Theatre presented Turn to the Right, the season’s standout Boston play, as it began its 14th week of performances last night.
The Tremont Theatre engagement wraps up after three more weeks in Boston with a final show on Saturday evening December 22. A Red Cross matinee Friday will donate all proceeds to the Red Cross fund.
The Exeter announces attractions for the week featuring Elsie Ferguson in The Rise of Jennie Cushing Franklyn Farnum in The Winged Mystery Ann Pennington in The Antics of Ann and Telma Salter with Frank Keenan in The Crab The news schedule updates twice weekly.
In Boston the Lancaster Theatre presented for the first time the O Henry adaptation I Will Repay with Corinne Griffith as the Southern heroine and Mary Maurice in capably supportive form. The companion feature was The Girl Angle starring Anita King. on Thursday Douglas Fairbanks in The Habit of Happiness and Alice Brady in Maid of Belgium join the bill.
B F Keiths Theatre presents music and dance acts led by Blossom Seeley in Seeley's Syncopated Studio. The bill includes Fields Salisbury and Davis, Lopez on cornet, Thorpe piano, plus A Naughty Princess by William Friedlander. Also features Carl Randall Ernestine Myers snake dance and acts by Bennett Richards Dowling Borden Dwyer Gordon and America, with a Red Cross benefit next Friday at 11 AM.
The Melting of Molly at Plymouth Theatre enters its second week in Boston. Alma Tell stars in the title role delivering a natural, witty performance that drew intelligent merriment and shows notable histrionic skill.
The Colonial Theatre presents David Warfield in The Music Master for the final week. Bostonians are urged to witness the distinguished actor in this charming comedy before it leaves. On Monday Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins star in Arabian Nights by Owen Davis, a specially prepared play first on any stage.
William Hodge headline attraction draws large, appreciative crowds at the Majestic. Homely humor and the play’s charm have sustained strong attendance since opening, with prospects for continued popularity during the engagement.
Castle Square in Boston offers a strong program with Flying Colors starring William Desmond Parker Lincoln travelogue The Panama Canal and The Fairy Godfather comedy. Elsie Ferguson appears in The Rise of Jennie Cushing with Captain Jinks Alibi and Roping Her Romeo to close the week. Pathe Weekly News and Mutt and Jeff provide accompanying short features. Featured artists include baritone Joseph J. Ecker tenor Francis Storrs and sopranos Dorothy Fairbanks Lora May Lamport.
The Wanderer enters its third week at the Boston Opera House with another large, appreciative audience. Prominent stage pictures and a talented cast elevate the biblical spectacle, drawing growing interest across New England.
Rex Beach's Auction Block tops the Boston Theatre program with Rubye de Remer as the heroine Lorelei Knight in a story of a small town politician's daughter. The bill also features Tom Brown's Highlanders, When Hubby Missed the Train, Jones and Greenlee, Baird and Inman, a Mack Sennett comedy The International Spy and current Hearst-Pathé newsreels.
This week at Franklin Park Theatre the first half features William S Hart in The Cold Deck a drama with a moral cast. Kemp and Howard present On the Way to Africa while Wit and Winters Frozini and Rice and Francis perform vaudeville. In the latter part Emily Stevens stars in Outwitted Fatty Arbuckle appears and a vaudeville selection rounds out the program.
The 20 boxing girls from the Follies of Pleasure drew attention yesterday at the Howard Atheneum. The burlesque Up and Down Broadway amused audiences with Clyde Bates as star comedian and Dottie Leighton known for her golden voice. Other favorites included Violet Hilson and Ellen Nugent with a prominent group of chorus girls and acts by Harte and Varady and the Berne Brothers.
Waldron's Casino presents the 1917 and 1918 edition of the Great Star and Garter burlesque produced by I M Weingarden. Bert Rose James Coughlin Don Clark Will Bovis Jess Weiss and others star with a 30 member chorus. First act titled For Art's Sake features Paris studio style scenes. second part spans seven scenes with high class specialties and lively humor.
Gayety presents Jimmy Cooper's Best Show in Town with Frank Hunter leading for the fifth year. Virginia Ware and Clara Keating deliver strong numbers. Bert Lahr and Mlle. Davenport star in tableaux of artistry. The production is clean and sumptuously staged across 11 scenes.
Park Theatre offers The Square Deceiver starring Harold Lockwood a breezy youth romance comedy. Helen Ware heads The Garden of Allah with Thomas Santschi enhanced by desert storm realism. Also features Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew Pathe Weekly Annie Laurie Leonard and Park Symphony Orchestra conducts The Anvil Overture.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre offered vaudeville and moving pictures that drew generous applause. The Lutz brothers performed a novel act without arms while using their feet, and films featured John Mason Alma Hanlon in The Tibertine and God's Country and the Woman with William Duncan. The Fighting Trail continued and Sam Cohen's amateurs appear Thursday with bargain night Friday. management accepts Red Cross tickets Friday afternoon Dec 7.
This week at the Beacon Theatre two photoplays drew strong applause. The Land of Promise with Billie Burke in the lead charts England and the Canadian Northwest, while The Secret Game features Sessue Hayakawa. Both proved highly entertaining and well received.
At Loew s Orpheum Theatre yesterday the vaudeville headliner was The New Mimic World of 1918. An hour of fast paced action featured 80 in the company including Frank Manning and Leo Clarke with acts An Ocean Wooing and At the Rehearsal. On screen were News Pictorial Mack Sennet s An International Sneak and The Eternal Temptress. The program to change Thursday with Shirley Kaye starring Clara Kimball Young.
Roshanara and company of 30 perform at Wilbur Theatre in three matinees this afternoon and December 6 and 7. She is joined by Michio Stow the Japanese dancer Tulle Lindahl and Thomas Allen Rector.
The program lists ballets and divertissements in the repertoire. Performers and choreographers are featured in a balanced season with multiple pieces and company selections.
The Globe Theatre kept the audience spellbound as Her Unborn Child enters another week. Written by Howard McKent Barnes, the play attracts strong interest with its contemporary theme presented in a straightforward story that addresses a difficult issue without sensationalism.
The Unique Theatre presents Henry Carey in The Secret Man for its final show tonight. Tomorrow and Thursday feature Jack Mulhall in Midnight. Friday and Saturday showcase William S Hart in Pinto Ben with serials comedies news weeklies and more.
Sessue Hayakawa stars in The Secret Game at Modern Theatre this week. Billie Burke appears in The Land of Promise on the same bill, a tale set in the Canadian Northwest.
The St James Theatre vaudeville program featured the Six Royal Hussars, May Elinore and Violet Carleton in Non sensical Nonsense, O'Brien Havel and Miss Valeska in Ticks and Clicks, plus Hickey and Cooper with songs and a pianologue, Alf Ripon the ventriloquist. Screens showed News Pictorial, a comedy, and The Secret of the Storm Country with Norma Talmadge. Thursday will bring Lina Cavalieri in The Eternal Temptress.
The Lexington High School girls field hockey team edged Winthrop 1 to 0 at Winthrop in a closing game of the season. Helen Locke, captain of Lexington, scored the decisive goal.
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