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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1920
Page
6
In Curtain! Katherine MacDonald stars in a romance about a popular actress who quits her career to marry the man she loves, faces betrayal, returns to film work, and finds happiness. The Gordon's Old South show also features News Weekly and a recital by Arthur J. Martel.
The Orpheum presents a vaudeville bill and a photoplay at Loew’s with William N Friedlander’s Sweeties first shown in Boston at popular prices. Cast includes J J Moore Helene Vincent Kennedy and Cramer Little Pippifax and Paulo. Louise Huff stars in a markedly different role in The Dangerous Paradise. The week closes with the all star production To Please One Woman.
A. H. Wood's comedy Friendly Enemies stars Frank Thomas and Henry Crossen with Anne Bronaugh as the lead actress and Mabel Colcord delivering a notable performance as the mother at the Somerville Theatre this week.
Joe Hurtig's Bowery Burlesquers at the Gayety drew strong crowd reaction with singing and dancing. Comedians Billy Foster and Frank Harcourt display striking talent in a Spanish bull fight skit. Libby Hart as Allessandra Queen of Spain charms the audience with song and performance, while Kitty Glasco evokes nostalgia. The chorus impresses with appearance, performance, and costumes.
A two film program at the Lancaster Theatre featured The Fatal Hour with an all star ensemble and Lyons and Moran in Once a Plumber. A Thursday change offers Thomas Meighan in Civilian Clothes and Gladys Walton in Pink Tights.
J Parker Reid Jr showcases Love at St James Theatre with Louise Glaum. The week includes Fox comedy screen snapshots Pathe News vaudeville and acts Society Symphony by 10 girls Levene and Duprie Barra sisters and University acts. Thursday William Farnum stars in The Scuttlers with George B. Seitz Velvet Fingers Pathe News and new vaudeville.
The Exeter presents James Oliver Curwood's Nomads of the North and Wanda Hawley in Her First Elopment in the first half week. The final days feature Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zero and The Big Show along with other attractions.
The Champion will depart Park Square Theatre at the end of the coming week not due to fewer patrons but because demand at the Longacre Theatre in New York is urgent.
The Howard Atheneum II showcases fifth star Knockout Bill Brennan in the athletic sketch In the Gymnasium with Jack Sheehan and partners. Fans expect Brennan to defeat Dempsey in a future clash. Burlesque by Jack Reid and the Record Breakers features Mabel Howard and a notable chorus. A midnight show on Friday ushers in 1921 with vaudeville acts General Pisano Barker and Dunn Earle. The Superman film plays to applause.
Waldron's Casino presents Al Reeves' Joy Bells a light merry burlesque seen in this city for two performances yesterday produced under James H. Cooper with Harry Cooper as the featured comedian. Cast includes Suitz Moore Charles Crofts Lew Christy Hank Pickett Millie Veleska Pauline Harris Elsie Huber and a large chorus. High class acts and elaborate stage pictures mark the show. An extra New Year Eve performance in two acts begins at 11 30 tonight.
Temple Stock Company stages Scrambled Wives, a three act farce set at a country house party. A recently divorced woman discovers her fiancé, ex-husband, and new wife are all guests, creating comic complications. Miss Bushnell shines as the young divorcee.
Walter Hampden enters the second week at Arlington Theatre with Hamlet in performance tonight he will also play Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew with Mary Hall as Katherine The week’s rest of the repertory includes Merchant of Venice Romeo and Juliet Hamlet and Taming of the Shrew on various dates.
The National Theatre reopened on Christmas Day restoring vaudeville and photoplay. Early week features B. F. Keith circuit acts with Anita Stewart in The Yellow Typhoon plus a two reel comedy and Pathe News. Later in the week a vaudeville change accompanies screening of What Women Love starring Annette Kellerman.
The Acquittal began its concluding week at Hollis Street Theatre with standout performances by Chrystal Herne William Harrigan and George Parsons praised as among Boston's finest in recent times.
Nazimova was seen yesterday at Gordons Strand Theatre in Billions. Other attractions include Hearts Are Trumps a news weekly and a comic picture. There will be an entire change Thursday with five acts of vaudeville.
Harry Manster will be extradited to Charlestown Massachusetts to serve a life sentence. Ed ward Darling and Roscoe Hill traveled from Boston to Chicago to arrange the papers and escort. They plan to depart for Springfield to complete extradition and then Boston by Wednesday or Thursday.
Wesley Barry makes his screen debut as a star in Dinty at Gordon's Olympia opening last night. The program features a News Weekly, a comic picture and five act of vaudeville, marking the freckle-faced youth's rising career.
Lionel Barrymore presents The Devil's Garden at Gorson's Scollay Square Olympia Theatre last night. The film stars H. Cooper Cliffe and Mae McAvoy with a strong moral about temper and passion. Also features five acts of vaudeville.
Last evening Gordon's Cambridge Central Square Theatre screened Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro. A vaudeville program followed with five acts including Richard Haveman's animal acts Harris and Winters in Marriage a la Carte Trovell and company Munroe and Grant in Having Troubles of their Own and Harry White with a new comic and the Weekly Review.
The second week began at the Colonial Theatre with the musical comedy Apple Blossoms. John Charles Thomas is praised as the best baritone on the stage, and Wilda Bennett Percival Knight Edgar Norton and Edna Temple receive note for their performances. the Astaires are engaging dancers.
Booth Tarkington’s comedy Clar ence will be staged at Hollis Street Theatre next Monday. Alfred Lunt returns in his original role with Phoebe Foster Mary Boland Glenn Hunter Viola Harper John Flood Agnes Findlay Susanne Westford William Lorenz and Barlowe Borland in the company.
At Loew's Columbia Theatre yesterday four vaudeville acts headlined a varied program. Roy Stewart starred in The One Hand and Dorothy Bernard appeared in The Accomplice. The Popular Girls Contest showcased Boston’s beauty. Later in the week Clara Kimball Young in Mid Channel and Catherine Calvert in Think It Over join the bill.
A screen version of Alice in Wonderland opened a week long engagement in Lorimer Hall Tremont Temple yesterday morning. The entertainment appeals to both adults and children and has earned broad favor nationwide. Boston showing is backed by Simmons College with Boston alumnae as patronesses.
An advertisement promotes Grove's LAXATIVO BROMO QUININE as a one day cure for colds. It warns to look for the genuine tablet bearing B. W. Grove’s signature and lists a price of 80 cents.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents The Cradle of Courage with William S. Hart as a crook turned officer chasing a gang once calling him pal. Ann Little Thomas Santschi and Gertrude Claire star. Also The Thief Pearl White and Buffalo Bill's Wild West with Indians. Vaudeville includes Billy Connery and May and May. New Year’s midnight show starts 10:40 PM with bargain acts.
With Constance Binney Viola Dana and Charles Chaplin as the draws the Modern Theatre promises entertainment above the ordinary. Binney stars in Something Different Dana appears in Cinderellas Twin and Chaplin is shown in a reissue of The Cure.
Viola Dana stars in Cinderella’s Twin while Constance Binney presents Something Different. Charlie Chaplin returns with a Realart reissue of The Cure, promising a varied program at the Beacon Theatre this week.
The Copley Theatre continues its strong run with Charley's Aunt entering a second week as audiences flock to the production, living up to its celebrated reputation.
The Tremont Temple screenings of Way Down East grow monotonous with consistently large audiences and uniformly favorable reviews from spectators.
Yesterday at Fenway Theatre crowds praised the bill featuring Zorro and Elaine Hammerstein in The Daughter Pays. Short subjects pleased, Garvin Waldron offered solo numbers. Thursday presents The Stealers and Earle Williams in The Romance Promoters.
For a special holiday week the Park Theatre shows William Faversham in The Sin That Was His. Afterward the young comedienne Gladys Walton, fresh from Pink Tights, appears in Risky Business. A comedy and a news weekly complete the bill.
The long running Ermine at the Globe Theatre ends next Saturday evening after a run filled with memorable moments. Principal stars Francis Wilson De Wolfe Hopper Jennie Weathersby Madge Lessing Alexander Clarke Irene Williams and others have drawn many new admirers and renewed delight for longtime audiences.
A new musical comedy titled It's Up to You comes to the Globe Theatre Monday evening January 3. Ada Meade heads a well known company noted for this entertainment genre in the city.
On Monday January 3 William Courtnay stars in a new Roi Cooper Megrue comedy Honors Are Even at the Park Theatre with Lola Fisher and a cast of noted performers.
Vaughn Comfort, a pleasing tenor, headlines a big week with encores after a strong first show. The bill features Charlie Irwin, Earl Gates and company, William L. Gibson and Regina Connelli in The Honeymoon, Bessie Wynne, Jim Diamond and Sybil Brennan in Fisherman's Luck, the Musical Hunters, Long Tack Sam, and acts Davis and Pelle. New Year’s Day three shows at 1 4 30 and 8 p m.
The musical comedy Maytime returned to the Opera House to strong audience approval. Wileen Van Blene led as Ottilie with notable performances by Worthe Faulkner and Otis Sheridan. Iseth Munro and Marguerite McNulty supported the cast. The chorus impressed, and the engagement was brief but well worth witnessing.
Leo Ditrichstein’s The Purple Mask opens at Plymouth Theatre in Boston. The star shifts from a romantic roue to a refined adventurer, playing a gentleman driven by danger and questing for love across five acts.
A revival of The Purple Mask set in Napoleonic France delivers romance mystery and action with skilled performances. Alice Haynes Laurette and Albert Brown as Brisque stand out in a large cast while Leo Ditrichstein’s lead performance anchors the thriller atmosphere.
Friends of J Parker Lawrence longtime market figure and likely oldest active vendor at Quincy market celebrated his 90th birthday with a dinner at Durgin Park. Lawrence born 1830 in Lexington began at the market in 1846 and now leads H L Lawrence & Co and J P Lawrence Co. A merry party also marked Amos T White’s 80th birthday.
West Buxton Maine mother of five writes of her two year old daughter’s fever illness. After starting Dr True's Elixir the child improved quickly and the mother endorses the remedy as a faithful family laxative and worm expeller since 18b1.
Mrs Alfred Di Pesa formerly with the Boston Grand Opera Company will conduct a concert at Jordan Hall tonight. Proceeds go to the relief fund for Italian Sailors War Orphans, under the Boston Italian Women's Club auspices.
At Codman Square Theatre the program featured four vaudeville acts including Humoresque. The closing half billed Tom Mix in The Texan.
President Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad announces that current conditions require further reductions in the number of employees and in working expenses and capital expenditures until the situation improves.
The Passing Show of 1920 opened at the Shu bert Theatre to a crowded house. A composed cast of many artists carried the program with song and dance and drew rapid praise from critics on first night.
The Passing Show at the Shubert in Boston features lavish costumes and striking scenery as it lampoons the 18th amendment with witty burlesque and lively scenes from Mt. Olympus to a China love boat. Performers Kyra, James Barton, Avon Comedy Four and the Haley Sisters deliver standout numbers and humor.
Negotiations between U S ambassador Morris and Japan’s Shidehara aim to form a new American Japanese treaty. The State Department seeks Congress approval and considers both houses' attitudes in shaping the pact. Morris discussed immigration topics with Senator Johnson and Representative Johnson during the talks.
Tom Mix stars in Prairie Trails the leading photoplay at the Boston Theatre this week. The feature is a sequel to his recent film The Man. A vaudeville bill accompanies the program.
A simple home made cough syrup blends Pinex with syrup to create a pint of cough remedy. It claims rapid relief from phlegm tickle sore throat and speeds improvement for bronchitis croup hoarseness and asthma. The ad recommends 2 1/2 ounces of Pinex from a druggist with directions and a money back guarantee.
For many years druggists have watched the remarkable record of Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root the great kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician s prescription and strengthens the organs helping them do their work. Swamp Root has stood the test of years and is sold by all druggists on its merit. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Dr Kilmer Co
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