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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1922
Page
8
A real operetta, In the Springtime of Youth, opened at Shubert this week with romance and a delightful score. Premiered in Boston yesterday afternoon to a large, attentive audience. Shubert production features skilled singers and clever actors, presenting a polished show.
In Portsmouth about a century ago two prominent families feud over a ship delay and a fortune tied to notes. Roger Hathaway returns to settle the estate while Priscilla Alden and Richard Stokes face disapproval, ending in a contented conclusion with comic mischief from a sailor impersonator and lively performances by George Macfarlane Olga Steck Robert Halliday and Harry Kelly.
Grace Hamilton sings sweetly with Zella Russell and Harry McKee among the cast. The operetta In the Springtime of Youth, praised as charming, has visited Boston in many a day.
Boston premiers Technicolor motion pictures The Toll of the Sea and Peg O My Heart at Loew's State Theatre along with a News Pictorial The Toll of the Sea follows a Chinese maiden and an American survivor while Peg O My Heart features Laurette Taylor The Counter Jumper a new comedy by Jarry Lemon also screens with the presentation
Waldron's Casino opened a week of Broadway Brevities with two films and vaudeville. Lena Daley led a polished cast with 14 costume changes by John O. Grant billed as best dressed burlesque man. Newcomers Gladys Jackson and Jasbo Mahon impressed. Jay C. Flippen portrayed Bert Williams.
The Sottentot produced by Thomas H. Ince proves a splendid attraction with Bebe Daniels in Singed Wings also well liked. The last half of the week brings Charles Ray in A Tailor Made Man and Colleen Moore in Affinities.
Walter Hampden opened a three week classic drama season with Hamlet at the Boston Opera House last night. His Hamlet draws loyal support and he brings breadth and empathy to the role, bridging modern and Elizabethan forms. Mary Hall played Ophelia. Mary Moore was Player Queen. Macbeth follows tomorrow night.
The Howard presents a Christmas bill headlined by Pepper Pots with laughter and strong comedy from Charley Goldie and Charles Marshall. Bertha Delmonte Alphia Giles Peggy Day star alongside Harry Keeler and Jack Leonard. Film features include Tom Mix Just Tony and Bebe Daniels North of the Rio Grande along with Chung Hwa Trio and Paul Nolan.
Gayety Theatre presents Hello Good Times a Christmas musical revue led by Nat Haines with 10 scenes and numbers such as Honey Bunch Look Me Up in Jail In Our Bathing Suits Keep On Jazzing. Gordon’s Capitol screens The Hottentot starring Douglas MacLean and Madge Bellamy with racing thrills and a triumphant finish.
The Boston St James hosts Johnny Get Your Gun a lively Cort piece in its premier with a 23 member cast and elaborate scenery. Walter Gilbert stars as Johnny guiding a Western style tale from a California studio to Long Island family drama while Bill Burnham’s sister faces a suitable match. Next week Adelyn Bushnell debuts as leading lady in Wedding Bells.
A 4th brave Christmas crowd at Bowdoin Square Theatre enjoyed pictures and vaudeville with Skin Deep starring Milton Sills and Florence Vidor. Bells of San Juan with Buck Jones followed, plus a popular vaudeville lineup, radio service, and Friday bargain features.
Constance Talmadge appears in Wyly is West at Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia with additional attractions including latest news and comic pictures and five splendid vaudeville acts.
Frank McGlynn performed in John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln at the Tremont Theatre. After four years in the role he brought fresh sincerity and fervor, and the entire cast shared the same lively energy on opening night.
Review lauds Frank M. Glynn and cast in John Drinkwater's Lincoln as educational and entertaining. Crimans as Grant and Durkin as Lee draw sympathy. Winifred Hanley as Mrs Lincoln and Bertha Wood as Susan receive strong notices. Boston audiences liked the production, two-week engagement, holiday crowd.
Mary Supko, 50, of 15 Warren Street East Cambridge, is in serious condition at Cambridge City Hospital with a knife wound to her back and a severed hand after an attack alleged to be by Andre Haratsko of the same address during a quarrel over money. Haratsko was arrested later on Poplar Street by East Cambridge police. The assailant reportedly grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed her twice before fleeing.
In Allentown Pennsylvania Miss Edith Dryer born in China and aged 18 finally walked unaided during a family reunion at the home of D A Miller after months of treatment including an operation at Mayo Hospital Rochester Minnesota.
Continuing attractions include Copley The New Clown, Fine Arts The Beggar's Opera, Park Robin Hood, Plymouth The Dover Road, Tremont Temple Oliver Twist, and Wilbur The Bat each scheduled to run at their respective venues.
The Orpheum Theatre presents Quincy Adams Sawyer with a vaudeville bill featuring stellar acts like Frank W. Stafford in a woodland fairy tale the Cosmopolitan Dancers and Jones and Sylvester plus Nestor Vincent Mardo Rome and Gordon Healy. Larry Lemon in The Counter Jumper was amusing and a news pictorial was shown.
New York views Fatty Arbuckle on screen for first time after pardon. At Park Music Hall patrons gathered quietly with limited billing and crowd reactions mixed from cheers to few hisses as Arbuckle’s comedy played. A damaged lobby door was reported as police intervened.
Allison P. Smith of the Newtown Bee sends a playful letter to President Pearson in Boston critiquing New Haven Railroad service on the Berkshires division. The note jokes about a week in Newtown’s Parker House and roughing it on milk car trains, promising cigars and a “red-letter week” if accepted.
Last night at the Fenway Theatre Bebe Daniels and Conrad Nagel led the cast in Singed Wings while Wil Rogers starred in The Headless Horseman. Mr. Lloyd G. del Castillo drew praise after his organ recital.
Bebe Daniels appears in Singed Wings at Gordon's Strand Theatre this week. Also showing are a special holiday picture titled Christmas, the latest news reels, pictorials, and organ recitals completing the bill.
The Modern and Beacon Theatres show Shirley of the Circus with Shirley Mason in a patriotic tale titled Yankee Doodle Junior. Also featured are The Counter Jumper with Larry Lemon and newsreels. Miss Magon appears in a street acrobat trio. A rich American rescues her and finances education then romance follows in a circus setting.
The Somerville Players presented The Three Twins at Davis Square House after a week of rural melodrama. Helena Morrill starred as the prima donna with strong acting and singing, joined by Harry Bond and Ann Hamilton. Stage Director Doyle staged an elaborate production as the company plans Three Wise Fools for January 1, 1923.
The Globe Theatre showcases Rich Men's Wives with Conway Tearle in Love's Masquerader plus a late comedy and news pictorial. On Thursday Trifling Women stars Lewis Stone Barbara La Marr and Raymond Novarro with Frank Mayo in The Altar Stairs.
Lady Diana Manners stars in The Glorious Adventure, a Prizma all color feature at the Boston Stoston Theatre. A lavish 17th century romance with pirates and nobility, vivid color scenes, sword duels and the Great London fire, praised as the season’s best photoplay.
The Codman Square Theatre in Dorchester will join Olympia Theatres, Inc. on January 1 under Nathan H. Gordon. The venue will offer two daily shows with two feature pictures and no price changes. Francis J. Cronin will perform organ recitals, and vaudeville will be added Saturdays and Sundays alongside photoplays and music.
Central Square Theatre in Cambridge showed an expanded vaudeville program along with photoplays. The feature film for the first three days is Staged Wings starring Bebe Daniels and Conrad Nagel with a dance of the Moth interlude highlighting Daniels versatility.
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