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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
8
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The annual Santa Claus pantomime and Christmas tree thrill audiences at Keith's Theatre each matinee after vaudeville. Emma Carus and Larry Comer headline a varied bill of song and dance while comic and novelty acts fill the stage with notable bits like The Night Boat and Lady Gossip.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre drew women and youth with a historic feature Cabiria and a high standard vaudeville. Notable acts included Smilletto brothers Mora, Foley and Sullivan, and Dickens and Floyd in Pals. Moving pictures like A Lesson From Life The Pacifist and The Missing Heiress entertained. more shows planned through the week.
Dorchester figure Ben Pierce received a warm welcome as crowds filled the Gaiety. Supporting acts include William Weston with a novel eccentric part and the Guatemalan Barimbba Band drawing encores. The Six Diving Belles amazed with grace and risk, while Helen Vreeland charmed the crowd. Pierce Weston and Jordan delivered the execution scene to roaring laughter. Other cast members include Perrin G. Somers Edward Jordan Tillie Stork and Maybelle Mahlum.
At the Beacon Theatre Marguerite Clark appears in Miss George Washington a tale of a girl who cannot tell the truth Also on the bill Marc McDermott Naomi Childers and The Price of Fame Gail Kane The Men She Married Cleo Ridgley and Wallace Reid in The Yellow Pawn join the program through Saturday
This week at Fenway Theatre includes The Yellow Pawn revealing cruelty of the third degree system and Mary Miles Minter in South. In late week Pauline Frederick stars in Nanette of the Wilds a romance with the Royal Canadian Northwest mounted police. Gladys Brockwell plays a double role in The Sins of Her Parent.
The Thoroughbreds company staged sparkling burlesque at the Howard Atheneum yesterday with performers including Harry Stratton Sid Winters Millie Leveredge Louise Maraball Jennie Ross and the Flying Sherwoods. The Venus of Vaudeville featuring Elmina and company drew praise and the bill also included Bell Gilmore Reid Fun Putnam and Lewis Nicholsons Senna and Webber and Arthur Ellis. Complete election returns will be announced from the stage tonight.
The 60 person company led by Irish comedian Dan Coleman plays Waldron's Casino this week. Cast includes Horatio McNally, Frank Mallahan, Phil Peters, Gene Alvarez, Jack Stollmack, Alma Bauer, Mlle Adelaide and others with strong violin solos and vaudeville acts. Special nights honor Coleman Mallahan associations and Chelsea Revere delegations.
Captain Louis Sorcho presents a submarine show at the Orpheum featuring a giant tank. He demonstrates wreck salvage, submarine operations, and mine laying. The bill also includes the Breen family, Kathryn Miley, Rawles and Von Kaufman in a minstrel comedy, Cooper and Hartman, Florence Rayfield, and Nazimova in War Brides along with Pathe News and a two reel comedy.
The comedy resumes at Castle Square for two weeks with Miss Carewe Carver in the role of a pretty Irish girl navigating a wealthy home. The company delivers strong humor and emotional scenes and anticipates large audiences for the engagement.
The program features Clara Kimball Young in The Rise of Susan at Park Theatre and includes The stolen Triumph with Julius Steger as Edwin Howley, a talented but down on his luck playwright. Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew appear in Duplicity with Hughie Mack in a specialty comedy. The Selig Tribune and Mme Calvert the opera singer add acts, and the Skrauths’ players close the program.
For the first half of the week Mary Pickford appears in Hearts Adrift at Exeter Street Theatre while Bessie Barriscale shows A Corner in Colleens on the same hill. Burton Holmes travel pictures Sidney Drew comedy Duplicity and Bray cartoons also screen. Later Mabel Taliaferro stars in The Sunbeam with House Peters in The Railway Spider alongside Burton Holmes travel and Bray cartoons.
Jillian Gish headlines The Children Pay at the Old South Theatre amid a divorced couple’s cold neglect. The vaudeville is described as high class while the Keystone comedy draws strong laughs. Thursday through Saturday features William S. Hart in The Devil's Double and Maurice Costello in The Crimson Stain Art Stere.
Gretchen Hartman and Alan Fale headline at the Modern Theatre this week with Rose of the BOYS star Peggye Hyland and Antonio Moreno. Also on the bill are cartoons ERD organ recitals by Arthur J. Martel and M. Trances Doughty.
The Plymouth Theatre will close until Christmas afternoon as Arthur Hammerstein's You're in Love moves from the Shubert. Marie Flynn May Thompson Florine Arnold and the beauty chorus will accompany the show.
The Boston Theatre features Charlie Chaplin in Tillie's Punctured Romance with Marie Dressler Mack Sennett Mabel Normand and Mark Swain plus the Old Homestead double quartet. Also offered are Madame Jewell’s minstrels Tom Kerr and Steffy Berko the violinists Simpson and a Dean Stevens and Brunnell Kane brothers and Boston Theatre Symphony Players. The final episode of The Yellow Menace with Edwin Stevens and Margaret Gale and the Boston Theatre Topical Review are shown.
A vaudeville bill at the St James Theatre yesterday showcased the Fascinating Flirts with a 10 performer company led by Phil Adams. The program included The Way Out by Barbiere Thatcher and company, Ma Netta duo, Murray Bennett songs and stories, Jack Morrisey and company bushmen of Australia, and Pearl of the Army latest Pathe News plus The Wharf Rat. Thursday brings a new bill headlined by Al Golem eastern acrobats and Nazimova in War Brides.
FE. H. Sothern stars in The Chattel delivering diverse impersonations of a rich man who buys his wife like a painting. The vaudeville bill features top acts and Charlie Chaplin in The Pawn Shop providing much merriment.
The Scollay Square Olympia week program shines with The Ten Vassar Girls leading songs and instrumentals. Drifting offers 15 minutes of fun as Henry Frey and the German Souse deliver humor. Hanlon and Clifton balance feats while Mme Ri alto presents The Artist's Dream. Coy DeTrickey, George Walsh, and Holbrook Blinn headline features.
Otis Skinner enters the second week of his Boston engagement in Mister Antonio at the Colonial Theatre. The role of Antonio Camaradonio a winter flower vender and year round hurdy gurdy man suits Skinner’s sunny, philosophical persona and has delighted local playgoers with a charming, happiness personified performance.
The Olympia show features The Birthday Party a group of juvenile entertainers performing sketches and impressions of famous stars. Joe Derko Troupe dazzles with acrobatics while Ben Smith adds a bold blackface turn. Lewis and Norton present In These Days and Rapoli Company showcases one man vaudeville. Hayward and Hayward perform song and dance. Frank McIntyre stars as The Travelling Salesman and Mabel Taliaferro appears in The Sunbeam.
Park Square Theatre begins its fourth week presenting The Great Lover with Leo Dietrichstein in the role of Jean Paurel. The performance showcases high type comedy and human touches that elicit a ready audience response from admirers in New York and Chicago.
The new musical comedy You're in Love began its third week at the Shubert Theatre with strong attendance. The song hits and the performances by May Thompson Marie O'Flynn Burrell Barbaretto Al Roberts Florine Arnold Richard Taber and the company are highlighted at each show. The attraction next week will be The Passing Show of 1916.
The popular young comedian Taylor Holmes began the third week of his stay at the Majestic Theatre in Boston last night before a large audience. The evening featured Joe Wilson Dodd's faithful drawings of Harry Leon Williamson's well known Bunker Bean characters, enjoyed by both fans and newcomers.
Charles Osterlind six year old son of Patrolman Albert Osterlind of the Malden police force lighted a match while seeking wooden blocks under a couch in the attic of 1 Everett street. The tassels ignited and the blaze threatened the upper part of the house. The boy singed his hair and the father rescued him, throwing the burning couch out a window while suffering burned hands. Other damage was limited to the couch.
The Globe Theatre began the second and final week of the photoplay Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea showing scenes from the ocean depths. The film presents Jules Verne's tale in native marine settings long before submarines existed, highlighting underwater inhabitants and adventures.
The Hollis will be dark this week except for the box office selling seats for Pollyanna on Christmas afternoon. Patricia Collinge stars with Herbert Kelcey Effie Shannon Jessie Busley Maud Granger Maud Horsford and others in the cast.
The domestic dispute in the family of Rev. Robert J. Elliott of First Congregational Church Revere led to divorce libels filed last month. The Equity Motion Session of the Superior Court will hear the case this morning to address its complexities.
John J. Harrington and Jeremiah Murphy were arraigned in Roxbury court yesterday on a charge of working a horse unfit for labor. Harrington was fined $25 and Murphy $10 after the complaint by agents of the M. S. P. C. A.
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