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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1910
Page
6
The Majestic presents Madame X and The Bachelor Belles two new comedies while The Echo opens at the Colonial and The Rosary headlines at the Globe along with other entertainments across Boston venues for the week.
The Majestic Theatre trotted out Madame X to Boston audiences after acclaim elsewhere. Dorothy Donnelly stars as the torn repentant wife with a roving past, while William Elliott defends her in a lengthy trial scene. strong supporting turns follow, and the melodrama grips from start to finish.
The Shubert Theatre opened its closing week of Forbes Robertson in The Passing of the Third Floor Back. The English actor is to leave Boston after this engagement, with large holiday audiences expected. On Monday January 2 Olga Nethersole starts a week in Maeterlinck Mary Magdalene with a strong company.
Mary Young leads Castle Square in Jack and the Beanstalk with Donald Meek and John Craig. The lively holiday production drew large audiences yesterday and promises many more. The technically perfect show features a large chorus as the second week begins next Monday.
The vaudeville season featured the Rigoletto Four in A Night in Venice at the Orpheum Theatre. Other top acts included Garry Owen and company Niblo and Reilly grotesque singers and dancers and Blanche Sloane in an aerial act. Miss Sloane is Ted Sloane’s sister. The pictures shown matched the usual high standard.
Last night at the Boston Theatre Mile Genee headlined a two week engagement with The Bachelor Belles. The Danish danseuse showcased three ballet pieces with Kosloff, plus a lively mixed program of comedy and song led by Frank Lalor and supported by Josie Sadler and Eva Fallon. The show, with Klaw Erlanger scenery, promises strong audience appeal after further rehearsals.
Edward E. Rose directs a Globe Theatre performance of The Rosary, praised as a powerful sermon like production. Harrington Reynolds plays the priest with strong support from Jessie Arnold in dual roles and ensemble members Ramsey Wallace and others receiving due credit. The drama blends solemn themes with light comedy, aiming to convert doubt into faith through its moral story.
The Columbia Theatre featured the Star Show Girls in two burlettas The Reception of Willie Green and A Model's Surprise with a 25 member chorus. Jolly Johnny Baker led the comic act and a vaudeville lineup included the Lockwood sisters the Stewarts Rosalie Charlie Reed Mae Hadley Frank Murphy and company. Upcoming events include a buck and wing contest tonight a Swiss champion wrestler Maurice DeRiaz versus Rory O Moore on Wednesday and amateur performances on Friday.
Rose Sydell and her London Belles perform this week in The Girl from Serry's at the Casino with a lively burlesque between acts. The Millard brothers promise the highest paid vaudeville act on the American stage. Sydell stars as lead, wearing Parisian gowns and jewels, earning the nickname Queen of Diamonds.
The Scenic Temple hosted a lively program with Dill at the scene and a strong turn by Morgan and West, German comedians with new songs and quips. Hall’s dogs drew praise, Jene King impressed as a singing comedian, and the Verdi tour offered high class vocal and instrumental artistry alongside an engaging motion picture display.
Bessie McCoy headlines The Echo at Colonial Theatre with a tuneful snappy dance show. Charles Dillingham launches her first season as a star and Annie Yeamans earns an enthusiastic Boston reception as she joins the festive program featuring Toots Paka and Hawaiian dance, plus a lively cast.
The second and final week of Ruth St Denis in Egyptian dances opens at Hollis Street Theatre with strong holiday crowds. Balalaika Orchestra adds new numbers through Wednesday, and Monday Jan 2 features David Warfield in The Return of Peter Grimm.
Park Theatre began its final week of the long engagement with two large crowds. Boston audiences warmed to the farce with its unusual plot and skilled cast. On Monday January 2 "Arsene Lupin" will debut in Boston starring William Courtney and Virginia Hammond.
The Queen of the Outlaws Camp drew strong crowds at the Grand Opera House yesterday. A melodrama about a young girl protecting her father, it sparked intense audience interest and applause as the hero rescues her and justice is restored. East Lynne is promised next with an unusually adequate production.
Belle Hathaway's Simians head a vaudeville bill at the Hub Theatre. The Twin City four perform a comedy singing act, Russell and Carmontel present singing talking and pianologue, the Spawns offer a comedy absurdity, and Kane the ventriloquist is featured later. A pleasing program of pictures rounds out the week.
Keith's Theatre presents a grand Christmas week headlined by Billy B. Van with the Beaumont Sisters in a vaudeville skit Props. The De Haven Sextet and Sydney G. Gibson perform The Understudy with music and humor. Una Clayton offers His Local Color impersonating an East Side waif while on stage. Harry Breen supplies on the spur songs from the audience. Mullen and Corelli display acrobatics and Kratons enact Hoop land pantomime with Josie O Meara on the wire and Wormwood’s animals included.
Enthusiastic Bowdoin Square Theatre audience roared at The Girl in the Flying Machine as she circled the crowd. Carl Fredericks and his educated pony Don drew applause with their act, while Watkins and Williams sisters offered a notable singing and dancing novelty. Billy Stack on harmonica and Barney First the comedian entertained, with Mile Paula a trapeze artist and Freeman and Carr singers also delighting. Ali Pasha told fortunes and the Lucky Horse Shoe drew afternoon and evening crowds.
The Howard stage hosted a festive display by the Big Review Girls featuring Nell Lavenser a prima donna with a celebrated voice and Frankie Heath as the female detective. Strong male acts included Russell Simpson Harry Le Van and Charles Saxon with dance and skating numbers from Lottie Dwyer Gere and Delaney Bert and Emma Spear and Thurston and Gray among others.
Patrons may see what could be one of the season’s best shows this week at the Gaiety Theatre. The two act musical boasts catchy numbers such as It’s Always June When You’re in Love and Kissable Eyes. Charles A. Mason and J. F. Gettings provide much of the comedy with May Florine Linden starring as Yvette Queen of Bohemia. The cast also includes Sue Stillman Grace Childers Marjorie Meredith and Flo Davis. A swimming scene in the second act is highlighted.
In Beverly New Jersey a cow belonging to milkman John Stuart John Beatty pulled the animal off a westbound track just as a mail train passed by. The cow had again been found on the track last week and is believed to be distressed by the loss of her calf.
Mrs E J Cox, trapped by fire in an upper floor, tied her year old baby between two pillows and dropped it to a neighbor who caught the child and helped her escape across a slippery roof. The residence was nearly ruined in the blaze.
Newark dispatch reports 90 year old Mrs. Sarah T. Avery of 24 Burnet Street expressed she wished to die before Christmas and died at her home. The death followed a hip fracture suffered a year earlier from a fall, with the wish reportedly fulfilled late Saturday night.
Garret Weldman a 65 year old life term inmate at the Texas State prison has refused a pardon after thirty years behind bars. Once a prosperous Stonewall County farmer, he killed a neighbor in 1880 over a land dispute and has since endured the loss of his wife and children.
Crawfordsville Ind Dec 26 William H Bundy of Bowers Station and his brother George Bundy grocer of this city are named heirs to a substantial fortune according to a probate listing. The brothers are among heirs described in the lengthy will probated here.
Donald Tigue and Marion FE McPherson reunited after two decades apart. Tigue, who left Scotland twenty years ago, found McPherson visiting Waterbury at the home of Mrs. Jane Mintie and announced plans to marry in New York Tuesday. He had not dated anyone else during the wait.
White Plains New York reports Lewis E Welch seeks annulment claiming his wife married him to spite an old sweetheart. He says she left five days after the Sept 3 wedding in 1909, returned to Sweden, then wrote that she had given up another man for him and regretted it. She called herself the biggest fool and urged him to marry again.
Mrs Susan House, 80, of Russiaville, bought a coffin as a Christmas gift for herself, saying she did not expect to live long. She later returned to order a grave monument to be placed at her grave. Both will be ready but held until her death, and she claimed these gifts pleased her most of any.
Professor Xrasmus Haworth of the University of today conducted an investigation at a Kansas ranch, noting split conditions and seeking answers on local affairs.
Tremont Theatre begins a week with The Girl in the Taxi drawing large crowds. Carter DeHaven returns as the curious young man with Laura Guerite as a lively Gallic lead, while Edmund Bresse debuts Monday in The Scarecrow based on Hawthorne’s Mosses from the Old Manse.
This week at the Austin and Stone’s Museum features Princess La Loleta performing sensational foreign dances and songs with terpsichorean stunts. The stock company offers a Christmas pantomime and new moving pictures. Also appearing are Gertie Zola in a singing and dancing act, Cheers and Jones in a comedy sketch, Bonette with a prize biplane, Allstair Mc Wilkie the bagpiper with long whiskers, and Peroni’s performing dogs and doves.
Miss Margaret Perkins faced a $400 bond not to marry within six months when she began work as a hotel telephone operator. The restriction came after several operators wed within months, with notable local businessmen acting as sureties.
Santa Claus and the stork joined forces to bring a set of quadruplets to the home of Mr and Mrs John Cortright of SeBring Mills near Dunellen New Jersey on Friday night. The four babies weigh a total of 12 pounds and all are reported healthy with the mother doing well.
Fire destroyed the Nicholas House in Bath New York early today. The building and its contents were a total loss with no casualties. The damage is estimated at 50000 dollars with 40000 dollars coverage.
Numerous cases claim relief from piles using a home trial package of Pyramid Pile Cure. The ad urges readers to obtain more from their druggist for 50 cents a box and mail in a free coupon.
Philadelphia December 26 A 63 year old motorman Harrison M Heilman of 3105 West Dauphin street died as his trolley car ran four blocks without a controller call after he collapsed at the switch The conductor halted the car just before Broad street and Heilman was pronounced dead at St Josephs Hospital from heart disease stating the afternoon drama aboard the pay as you ride car
Nine year old George Hartwell of 326 Minerva Street was lifted by a box kite tied to a heavy cord near Roxboro poor house. The cord snapped as he neared a 150 foot bluff and he fell into a chestnut tree, left in critical condition from exposure.
The Rev. Clarence E. McKelvey, pastor of the Methodist Church in Navellink New Jersey, resigned after an investigation by Superintendent Dr. John Handley. He is accused of calling women church members old hens and some men tightwads. church services were suspended during the inquiry.
Child born in Toronto in 1908 afflicted with severe skin disease. After failed remedies the family found relief using Cuticura cures in Duluth and Proctor Minnesota. The letter from Robert Mann credits Cuticura Soap and remedies for complete cure with no recurrence.
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