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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1917
Page
12
Christmas leave plans for about 15 000 families were disrupted as Camp Devens announced fewer than 5000 soldiers in training would receive Christmas furloughs. Weekend leaves will be curtailed starting next Saturday officials said.
Only about 1500 soldiers or fewer will be granted leave this weekend to suit railroad capacity and War Department guidance. Cantonment commanders will select recipients by lottery proximity and discipline, while camps plan community events for Maine and New Hampshire guards. Fort Slocum influx and regimental activities accompany preparations for Christmas gifts and a camp tree.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents The Oman God Forgot featuring a nearly 2000 foot Aztec pyramid set and 1000 performers in a Spanish conquest drama. Cast includes Gerald Farrar Wallace Reid Hobart Bosworth Theodore Kosloff Raymond Hatton and James Neill. Also showing The Last of the Ingrahams with William Osmond and The Wighting Trail, plus vaudeville acts and comedy shorts.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Baker confirmed Christmas furloughs are not forbidden but discouraged by the War Department. Transportation strain and potential impact on training cited as reasons for limiting absences.
The Howard Atheneum hosted a lively burlesque show featuring Lew Golden as the head of fun with Mona Raymond the $10,000 beauty and Nellie Nice with Emily Nice. The American Zouaves performed a notable military exhibition and cycling models by Harry Fisher drew cheers.
Park Square Theatre continued its third week with Upstairs and Down a comedy praised for situational humor and witty dialogue. The play reveals drawing room life versus below stairs with cleverly interwoven incidents.
Mae Marsh in The Cinderella Man at the Boston Theatre this week earns top honors for a close rule performance. Katharine Dana presents Fantasia Luminare a vivid vaudeville spectacle with color scenes and a soprano vocal number. The bill also features Suzanne Rocamora and four girls in At the Ladies Club plus Shoes and McLaughlin and Evans with Claude Raus and a Mack Sennett comedy and Pictorial Review.
The Park Theatre presents The Rose of Blood with Theda Bara as a Russian heroine sacrificing for freedom. An American Widow offers a novel play within a play with striking lighting. Sidney Drew duo returns in a comedy. Park Symphony Orchestra under William A. Krauth performs. Helen Barr sings new selections.
Gayety Theatre hosts Sydell's London Belles this week in Uncle Cy's Trip to New York. George F. Hayes impersonates Uncle Cy with Ted Burns and Sam Lewis assisting in burlesque antics. The beauty chorus and acts by Louise Hartman Dorothy Earl Kate Pullman Frankie Burns and others entertain with singing dancing and specialties.
The Scollay Square Olympia presents a leading photoplay Reaching for the Moon starring Douglas Fairbanks and seven vaudeville acts, all up to the house standard this week.
Pauline Frederick stars in Mrs Danes Defense at the Modern Theatre as a woman pressed by truth and deceit in a tense final moment. Wallace Reid stars in Nan of Music Mountain on the same bill with a revenge plot and a turning point.
The Wilbur Theatre closes the third week of De Luxe Annie with a noted cast led by Jane Grey. Edward Clark dramatized the story from Scammon Lockwood and audience interest remains high as the run continues into the next show The Man Who Came Back starring Henry Hull starting December 23.
The Wan derer opened last evening to delighted enthusiasm consistent with prior performances. It blends play and spectacle with gorgeous scenic appointments and strong historic character in a cast led by Nance O'Neil and James O'Neill with Charles Dalton Frederic Lewis Jane Stuart and Lionel Broham.
Edward Clark and Silvio Hein present Furs and Frills at the Plymouth for the second of three weekly engagements. The musical comedy features charming music a real plot clever situations and numerous scenic and costume innovations with realistic electrical effects. Cast includes Ernest Torrence Harriet Burt Ferne Rogers Beth Smalley Burrell Barbaretto Norman Keith Ben Wells Harry Miller Milt Dawson George Slade and six violin girls.
Theda Bara as Cleopatra continues at the Shubert Theatre for five more days. The screen siren, famed as the Nile's queen, will be followed by the film Peter Ibbetson on Monday evening December 24 starring Constance Collier and John Barrymore.
William Hodge opened his second month at the Majestic Theatre with a crowded crowd for A Cure for Curables. The Boston run continues to draw large houses and box office reports rank this as his best success since The Man From Home.
The Tremont Theatre opened its farewell week for Turn to the Right last night with a crowded house and high enthusiasm. The comedy will stage seven more performances in Boston, ending next Saturday night at its 133rd Boston performance, before The Boomerang opens on Christmas night December 25.
The Copley Theatre finishes the long run of The Man Who Stayed at Home and starts rehearsals for the Henry Jewett Players repertory season. Bernard Shaw's Fanny's First Play premieres Saturday, then General John Regan debuts Dec 31 with The Land of Promise and The Rivals as January bills.
The leading act was the De Pace Opera Company a sextet performing opera gems and modern songs. Bom Martin and company presented A Regular Business Man. Also featured Conroy and Donnell The Parcel Postmen Harmon Zarnes Dunn Dorothy Roye and Kramer and Cross. Screen offerings included News Fictorial Mack Sennett comedy That Night and His Mother’s Boy with Charles Ray. The bill changes Thursday with the photoplay For the Freedom the World.
Gordon's Olympia presents The Pride of New York as the lead photoplay this week with George Walsh in the main role. The serial Who's Number One continues to thrill and mystify in a particularly sensational new episode. An excellent vaudeville bill rounds out the program.
The Lancaster Theatre presented two photoplays yesterday with opposite themes. The Good for Nothing features Carlyle Blackwell Muriel Ostriche and Evelyn Greeley in leading roles and proves attractive. A Branded Soul stars Gladys Brockwell in an emotional role. An entire bill change arrives Thursday with The Primal Lure featuring William Suart and Outcast with Ann Murdock.
Our Navy, filmed with the Prizma natural color method, begins a two week engagement at Tremont Temple starting Monday. The tinting of black and white is enhanced by the new process approved by official sanction since the war began.
This week's Exeter Street Theatre programme features Lina Cavalieri in The Eternal Temptress, Vivian Martin in Molly Entangled, Douglas Fairbanks in Reaching for the Moon, Clara Kimball Young in Shirley Kaye, plus Pathe Twice Weekly Review at each show.
The Franklin Park Theatre features Viola Dana in The Girl Without a Soul this week. Vaudeville highlights include the Tierbert sisters Across the Pond Gartins Friscoe Jones and Greenlee. Ethel Barrymore stars in The Eternal Mother and The Hidden Hand serial returns. A complete vaudeville change closes the week.
The B F Keiths Theatre offers Fleurette's Dream at Peronne a fashion revue by Lady Duff-Gordon with 16 models in chic frocks and furs to please women and aid France. Nat Nazarro and company present A Variety of Varieties while The Aviatrix gets laughs with The Sargenteene. Meehan's Dogs and other acts round out the program.
The Colonial Theatre fills with Boston crowds for the opening of the second week of the Punch and Judy Theatre company season. Charles Hopkins and family present a vivid Arabian Nights performance with Julia Sanderson and Joseph Cawthorne as co stars to follow on Monday night with Rambler Rose.
William Harris Jr presents The 13th Chair at Hollis Street Theatre starting Christmas night. High advance interest noted as the road version features Margaret Wycherly and Harrison Hunter from the New York company.
Waldron's Casino presents Edmond Hayes in Some Show this week as a wise guy and piano mover. Spike Hennessy and Bozo plot to be arrested for three months on the island, then reform, but a policeman intervenes. they visit Fairyland and face comic misadventures. Mrs Highbrow seeks society glory amid many funny bits including moving a piano from the Astor Hotel roof garden to the third floor.
The Castle Square Theatre drew strong praise from both afternoon and evening crowds for a varied program of pictures comedy scenes and music. Madge Evans led the bill in The Adventures of Carol with MHearst-Pathe News and Jatty Arbuckle also featured in The Butcher Boy. Mildred Efford and George Livete supplied musical numbers. The last half of the week opens Thursday with Olive Thomas in Broadway, Arizona and includes a Frank Daniels comedy Captain Jinks the Plumber.
At Loew's St James yesterday the leading vaudeville act was Raskin's Orchestra with Mykoff and Vanity, a company of 11 playing balalaikas and dance music, with lively feats. The rest of the bill featured The Mollycoddle, Lane and Smith, the Three Moriarty Sisters, and Adams and Mangle. News Pictorial and a photoplay Reaching for the Moon with Douglas Fairbanks were shown, and Thursday will bring His Mother's Boy with Charles Ray.
The Beacon Theatre presents Mrs. Dane’s Defense with Pauline Frederick wearing elaborate gowns. Also on the bill is Nan of Music Mountain starring Wallace Reid in a modern western drama with a new twist to the plot.
The Globe Theatre stages Howard Mc Kent Barnes drama Her Unborn Child in its closing weeks. The play centers on middle class characters whose straightforward story appeals to a broad audience drawn from across social ranks.
Contributions to the Halifax Relief Fund announced yesterday afternoon total many donors and amounts from churches towns and individuals. Notable gifts include First Baptist Malden 18.00 Emmanuel Episcopal Church Boys Club Braintree 5.00 Town of Winchester 10.00 Citizens of Westfield 1000.00 and estate of Fanny Wales Soren 100.00 with numerous other gifts from public safety committees towns and private individuals totaling over 11.80 in small sums and 263.78 from Winthrop plus 150.00 from Nantucket Safety Committee and 550.38 through Berkeey Webster committees.
Harvard informal varsity hockey candidates held their first practice at the Boston Arena with about 85 hopefuls. Coach Robert E. Gross will lead the freshman seven until a permanent coach is found. First cut reduced the pool to 39 for seven regular positions. first contest slated with the Stone School on January 11.
Johnny Russo replaces Johnnie Dundee in a 12 round feature at the Grand Opera House tonight, facing Lew Tendler. Russo, from New Orleans, weighs 129 pounds and has recent wins over Eddie Wayond Johnnie Mealey Johnnie Maloney and Harry Tracy, promising an engaging debut in this city.
Rindge Technical and Cambridge Latin hockey teams will use a rink at Russell Field North Cambridge after the city appropriated 400 dollars for construction. Work is underway and will surface once side boards are installed. Last winter both teams improved with rink practice.
Kid Williams of Baltimore and Johnny Ertle of St. Paul fought twelve rounds in Baltimore, ending in a draw. Williams and Ertle exchanged exchanges throughout the bout, with neither man securing a decisive victory.
Zurich dispatch reports Kolin in Bohemia failed coal supplies forced shutdown of electrical works. Forty nine towns and villages lack light and thirty four large industrial plants and sugar refineries have closed, impacting the surrounding country.
On the campaign launch in Maine 18 438 new members were reported to headquarters in Portland. Waldo county led with 3 321 members, Penobscot 3 257, Augusta 2 230. Chairman Adam P. Leighton called the first day encouraging despite heavy snow and cold as Maine’s 113 326 quota looms.
With the rink cleared after last week’s snow candidates for the Lexington High School ice hockey team held a practice yesterday afternoon on the high school rink. Coaches see promising material for a strong seven.
Benny Leonard the New York champion lightweight scored a technical knockout over Chic Brown of New Haven in the fifth round of a ten round bout. Leonard dominated from the start, staggered Brown with two stomach blows in round three and finished in the fifth after Brown taunted him. Referee Fitzgerald halted the clash as Leonard pressed the attack.
Chicago December meeting of American Association club owners set May 1 or 2 as opening date and reduced player limit to 16 plus manager. A 140 game schedule is debated. final decision expected in February. Spitball and other deliveries banished. $25 fines for violations. umpires to judge and report foreign substances on balls.
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