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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1910
Page
4
Forbes-Robertson starred in the Shubert bill last evening as The Passing of the Third Floor Back. Christie MacDonald headlined a Tremont program featuring The Spring Maid, an operatic number. The mixed bills offered drama and musical entertainment for local audiences.
Miss Gertrude Elliott’s husband J Forbes Robertson stages Jerome K Jerome’s drama at the Shubert Theatre. The Passerby leads characters in an English lodging house toward self transformation through kindly satire and moral reflection. The performance is described as remarkable and well worth witnessing.
Christie MacDonald led a large cast in The Spring Maid at Tremont Theatre receiving a heartfelt ovation. The operetta adapted from Die Sprudelsee features Princess Bozena and Prince Aladar with music by Willner and the Smiths, praised for tuneful refined melodies and clever orchestration.
The Boston Theatre hosts the second week of Katie Did with My Friend from India, praised for a balanced cast and appealing musical setting. May Vokes adds charm with quaint impersonations while La Petite Adelaide delivers exquisite dancing, making the Christmas attraction highly alluring.
A Bowdoin Square Theatre program combined progressive vaudeville with moving pictures and drew enthusiastic crowds. Ali Pasha read fortunes for the ladies, Gideon's Dandy Dixies performed cotton land songs and ragtime numbers, Williams and Williams offered gymnastic acts, Lillian Herbert sang, and the Christys Peanut and Peewee danced. The Hydes and Freeze brothers also appeared with other featured acts.
An extraordinary show featuring a bear woman able to talk, boxing bear Tunk, and a variety of acts. Prof DeBlake presented dogs and monkeys, Marie De Vere swallowed blades, Mons Lenove performed as a one man band, with Catulie's illusion and two state shows among the attractions.
The Scenic Temple hosted a bustling show with Saporus and Jones delivering 15 minutes of high quality singing and dancing. James Doherty offered dialect stories and new melodies, while The Burdette brothers performed a daring acrobatic routine. A sharp comedy sketch and lively illustrated cones finale added strong laughs and cohesion to the program.
The Park Theatre audience erupts in excessive laughter during Seven Days as performers Albert Brown Allen Pollock Florence Reed Georgia O Ramey Lucile La Verne Williamville Hope Latham Carl Eckstrom Jay Wilson and F C Butler drive the comedy. The piece centers on a quarantine dilemma and the physical comedy leaves patrons exhausted but entertained.
Miss Blanche Ring appears in The Yankee Girl at the Majestic Theatre for the second and final week. The cast includes Harry Gilfoil and features hits like The Top of the Morning Nora Malone Louisiana Elizabeth and Love Among the Roses. Grace Van Studdiford is set to open next week in A Bridal Party with Maud Odell in the company.
Colonial Theatre in Montgomery and Stone opens its fourth week with a full house. The Boston duo win new success with vaudeville style musical comedy featuring Highland fling kilts Swedes dialect and lively dancing. Principal cast members and the English pony ballet girls receive praise for their energetic performances.
Castle Square Theatre celebrates Shaksperian comedy with Twelfth Night receiving warm applause. Mary Young stars as Viola, delivering near perfection in acting while Craig portrays Malvolio with restrained gravitas. Hassell, Meek, Bert Young, Florence Shirley, and Marie Curtis shine in supporting roles. Next week Edward Peple’s The Love Route debuts in Boston.
The Dainty Duchess burlesque company led by Joe Morris opened a week at the Gaiety with strong laughs and clever parodies. Morris plays Abe Lachinski in Bradley From Wall Street and Sultan for a Day, supported by Fannie and Watson, Oscar Lewis and Sam Green, Margie Hilton, and the Daker Devoe Trio in acrobatic acts.
The Globe Theatre opened yesterday with continuous vaudeville and moving pictures all day. Acts include Robert MacDonald, a Scotch musician, Berkeley and Welcome, Billy Barlow and Lilian Franklin, Parsons and Kerr, Jimmy Maxwell and Jack, and CY Donnell.
An old home remedy claims a simple mix of granulated sugar water and Pinex provides rapid cough relief. It promotes 24 hour improvement, states it is better than store bought syrup, and offers a money back guarantee with Pinex availability through druggists or direct from The Pinex Co.
Francis Wilson headlines at the Hollis Street Theatre in The Bachelor's Baby a comedy he wrote. The 48 actor delivers a lively three act performance showing transformation and humor as the bachelor and child scene unfolds. Next week marks the engagement’s final stretch with the same polished staging.
Last season hit melodrama return draws enthusiastic crowd as two brothers face duty and kinship amid hair raising adventures. J Wendell Davis stars as the cowboy with a capable company providing strong specialties. Next week Thomas E Shea presents his repertory.
The Columbia Theatre staged A Night at the Moulin Rouge featuring Frenchy and a satire O FELLOW and Desdemona. Joe Emerson led a merry lineup of vaudeville acts including the Lee Sisters Kaufman and Sawtelle Howell and Webster Prevost and Brown and Violette Dusette in an Apache dance. Wednesday night Hans Leonard films Cyclone Burns and amateurs perform Saturday.
Yesterday's Hub Theatre bill met high standards with the Six English Gems headlining. Rogers Fountain & Moore and Gracey & Burnett also entertained with lively, up-to-date acts as the lively program drew strong crowds.
Bostonians flocked to B F Keith's Theatre for a Christmas bill featuring Odiva the Samoan pearl diver in a glass tank act with underwater dancing sewing eating and endurance tests. The lineup also includes Eliza Proctor Otis in Mrs Gunner's Deception ventriloquist Ed Reynard Stuart Barnes Fay and Coleys Fay Carl Randall Clara Ballerine and Richard Anderson for a festive program.
Performances at the Orpheum Theatre featured Mr and Mrs Jack Carleton with a comedy sketch titled Stung. Michael Coscia violinist Horton and Somers comedians and the De Macos dare devil gymnasts were praised among eight acts plus reels of new motion pictures.
Mayor Fitzgerald and Councillor Kenney clash over pension plan for city employees at a heads of departments meeting. The report backs annuities and pensions funded by 1 to 5 percent assessments, with 477 retirees in year one and 522 more in five years. Initial cost estimates run from about $120,000 to $126,000 depending on rate, rising to roughly $188,000 in year six.
Daisy Harcourt performs new songs to a lively Howard audience with a festive college style welcome. The Miners Americans deliver top burlesque with Teddy Simonds leading and acts by Viola Doherty Peatrice Hayner Lillian Alton and more. Diamond Cameron La Toska and others also entertain in a varied program.
Firefighters arrived to rescue men trapped inside a burning building. The incident disrupted the scene as crews worked to pull victims to safety and control the flames.
Fire raged through a Bedford street factory injuring workers including hundreds of female operatives. Elevating inspector W H Timpany was rescued from a barred basement window as fire crews battled smoke and water flooding. Losses hit BE L Ham & Co with smoke and water damage to several tenants.
William D. Brown of Owassa Alabama asks Federal court to appoint a receiver for Citizens' National Life Insurance Company of Louisville alleging 26 000 shares worth 1 000 000 have been issued under fictitious names.
Eight new cholera cases were reported in the past 24 hours, all in Palermo. Six cases occurred among inmates at the asylum for the insane.
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