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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1917
Page
7
The Wilbur Theatre presents De Luxe Annie with Jane Grey leading the company. Audiences of all tastes enjoy its occult and mysterious tone. Engagement runs this week and next.
At the Boston Theatre a screen drama Loyalty featuring Betty Brice as Nell Wood ward and Jay Morley as Hugh Gordon played against a backdrop of drug conflict. The vaudeville act Over the Top impressed with 15 performers and lively music and dance. Bernard and Scarth presented The Tale of a Coat with Rome and Wager completing the bill.
Waldron's Casino hosts the Golden Crook Extravaganza Company with Messrs Jacobs and Jermon. The show blends comedy music and dance, featuring ballet stars and Parisian numbers. Lead performer Billy Arlington headlines with a strong supporting cast including Frank Devoe Eleanor Cochran Harlie Mayne the Pall Mall Trio and a 30 girl chorus.
The Man Who Stayed at Home wraps its run at Copley Theatre as the house darkens for five days next week. The repertory season launches on Saturday December 22 with Fanny's First Play and audience interest remains high.
The Globe Theatre extended its run for the play Her Unborn Child, now in its fourth week. The work by Howard McKent Barnes draws steady crowds, proving serious drama can attract broad audience interest despite skepticism about such productions.
The Lancaster Theatre screens Alfred Henry Lewis story The Tenderfoot featuring William Duncan and Carol Halloway as star-crossed lovers. Also on bill The Awakening with Dorothy Kelly and Montagu Love. Thursday shifts to The Unforeseen with Olive Tell and Who Goes There with Harry Morey and Corinne Griffith.
Castle Square Theatre presents a varied program with William S. Hart in The Disciple as the week’s lead film romantic drama. A spring idol in country life, a midget comedy Lawstrust and Society, Hearst-Pathe news, Matt and Jeff, and vocal solos by Barbara Fane and John Smallman accompany the show. Marguerite Clark stars in Bab's Matinee Idol starting Thursday afternoon.
William S Hart stars as Ice Harding in The Narrow Trail at Bowdoin Square Theatre this week. Sylvia Bremer Milton Ross Robert Kortman Fritzy provide supporting turns amid cowboys and applause. Also on the bill are A Princess of the Dark with Hand Bennett Frederick Murray and company and Uncle Sam's trio from the Boston navy yard. Thursday brings new amateurs and extra acts Friday.
Sam Howe and company perform A Wife in Every Part at the Gayety Theatre for the week. The two acts travel from Venice aboard the Busy Bee through Spain Paris and Japan, then England at the Strand Hotel and Derby Day. Ed Handford wrote the book and lyrics with score by Harry von Tilzer and Jack Mahoney.
Franklin Park Theatre offers a week of thrills with Masque of Life and vaudeville featuring The Durens dancing acts Louis London Gray and Byron and The Rozelles. Pathe pictures and more fill the lineup. Later Francis X Bushman stars in Voice of Conscience and The Hidden Hand serial opens with a full vaudeville change.
All boys and men may see Tom Sawyer on screen this week at the Beacon Theatre with Jack Pickford in the role. Also on the programme is Geraldine Farrar in The Devil Stone a tale of mystery.
This week at the Exeter Street Theatre features Marguerite Clark in Bob's Matines Idol Winfred Allen in For Valour The Judgment House from Sir Gilbert Parker and Taylor Holmes in The Small Town Guy The program highlights multiple early screen offerings and stage adaptations.
A Yale representative from the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will visit New Haven to discuss reviving the annual track and field games abandoned last year due to the war. Yale’s stance on entering its athletes and its policy for spring sports remains uncertain after an upcoming athletic board meeting.
Thomas Grant Thompson a retired paper manufacturer from Westfield Mass and relative of former Senator Murray Crane died in Berlin during the night of heart trouble He was 46 years old He became blind while traveling to visit a daughter in New Haven and died after being taken to a nearby house
Boston audiences again overflow the Boston Opera House for The Wanderer as the engagement begins another successful week. The production features a strong cast and large ensemble scenes with a dignified, solemn presentation.
William Hodge continues the diagnostic farce A Cure for Curables at the Majestic. The public enjoys watching hypochondriacs regain their senses as Hodge portrays Dr. Pendergrass with congenial artistry and life like realism.
Park Square Theatre approves of Upstairs and Down as holidays bring large attendance. The comedy amuses in a wholesome manner and features newcomer Ann MacDonald as Betty who falls for Captain O Keefe. It looks like a long Boston stay for the show.
The Hollis Street Theatre presents three Barrie plays The New Word Barbara's Wedding and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals this week. A future engagement features The 18th Chair opening on Dec 2 for Boston audiences.
The Loew's St James vaudeville bill featured The New Mimic World of 1918 led by Frank Manning and Leo Clarke with imitations of famous stars. Also seen were El Cota the xylophone artist and Bennington & Scott in a variety act. Screen offerings included News Pictorial and the photoplay Over There with Charles Richman and Anna Q Nilsson. The bill changes Thursday with Clara Kimball Young taking the photoplay lead.
Geraldine Farrar stars in The Devil Stone a tale of superstition and mystery at Modern Theatre this week. Jack Pickford appears as Tom Sawyer in picture form on the same bill delivering an ideal boy performance.
The silent drama Cleopatra opens at the Shubert Theatre for a two week run. William Fox presents an elaborate production drawing on Haggard Sardou and Shakespeare for its scenario. The portrayal blends romance with Cleopatra’s famed legend, minimizing historical flaws.
The dramatic chronicle recounts Caesar’s entanglement with Cleopatra and his bid for Rome’s crown, echoing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. It cites Haggard’s Pharon, Antony’s Rome marriage, Actium battles, and Cleopatra’s camp visit, ending with the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra. Theda Bara stars as Cleopatra with a strong supporting cast. two weeks of show followed by Peter Ibbetson.
Theatre patrons enjoyed a balanced program with a novelty circus, a melodrama On the High Seas starring Orris Holland and Edwyna Boyd, and a skit by Rooney and Bent. Acts by Helen Trix and sister, Cole Russell and Davis Yeggs, Alfred Bergen, Joe Boganny, the Chalfontes, Robert Everett, and Hearst-Pathé current events round out the program as wireless tension, rescue drama, and music sequence play to the audience.
After over three months at Tremont Theatre the comedy Turn to the Right ends next week. The company led by Ruth Chester has turned in able performances that resonate beyond locality. The Boomerang by Winchell Smith follows, having enjoyed success elsewhere and shares authorship with Turn to the Right.
The first performance by Charles Hopkins and Mrs Hopkins with the Punch and Judy Theatre troupe from New York was delayed after rehearsal difficulties with complex scene settings. The show will open Wednesday night at the Colonial Theatre in Boston with the company arriving from New York for final rehearsals.
Scollay Square Olympia presents Marguerite Clark in Bab’s Matinee Idol with her lively charm. The supporting vaudeville is strong and features Cantwell Wright and Griffiths, Ben and Hazel Mann, Imperial Russian Troubadours, Planenbergs bears, Ella the bicycle bear, Visions, DiMi and Lola, Frank Wilson, and the Olympia News Weekly.
The Howard Atheneum launches Army and Navy Week with The Army and Navy Girls burlesque featuring Bert Weston, Claudia Kerwin, Evelyn Ferris, and a full vaudeville bill. The continuous show runs from 1 to 11.
Park Theatre features Alias Mrs Jessup with Emily Stevens in the lead role as a heroine who faces gambling dens police raids escape and reform. The bill also includes The Primal Lure with William S Hart a Mack Sennett Keystone comedy Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew Pathe Weekly and Mme Calvert. The Park Symphony Orchestra conducted by William A Krauth offers new selections.
An excellent Orpheum vaudeville bill at Loew’s Orpheum Theatre featured the McDonald duo in The New Chief of Police, the Moriarty sisters with songs and humor, Ryan and Joyce, Lane and Smith, the Norvelles in At the Artist's Studio, and Chadwick and Taylor. Screen offerings included News Pictorial, Arbuckle’s Ratty in A Country Hero, and Kitty Gordon in Her Hour. The program changes Thursday to The Honeymoon with Constance Talmadge.
Gordon's Olympia presents Gordon's Olympia this week featuring Miss Caprice in Unknown 974 a thriller that probes life’s tragedies and joys. The dainty Boston product delivers a refined performance as the ambitious photo drama leads a bright colorful vaudeville bill with Who Is Number One and other pictures completing the program.
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