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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1918
Page
12
Donald Brian returns to Boston as a solo star leading Her Regiment with music by Victor Herbert. His strong stage presence and nimble dancing mark him as a capable musical comedy leader, though the production hinges on his personality and performance.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre presents The Zeppelin's Last Raid showing all week with its dramatic aerial destruction scene. Louise Glaum stars in Sweetheart of the Doomed, A Bedroom Blunder offers comedy, Vengeance and the Woman continues, and Pathe News covers current events. Vaudeville features Lee Beggs and company plus The Two Franks and others with amateur nights Thursday and Friday. Next week William S. Hart appears in Wolves of the Rail.
At the Boston Theatre yesterday Rene Castle stars in Convict 993 with an unusual role as a convict in the first reel and four other scenes in gowns the public loves. The ending is surprising yet logical, and Mrs Castle is said to deliver her best screen work yet. The vaudeville slate features George Rolland and company with The Vacuum Cleaner and acts by George Felix and the Dawson girls Monarch, Regan and Renard, Frawley and West, and a Fox comedy finale.
Madame Petrova stars in The Daughter of Destiny at Scollay Square Olympia this week. The American drama features plucky heroines and Petrova's artistic performance. The vaudeville bill includes Carroll and Tee, Spencer Charters and company in The Hermit, Bonner and Powers Bits of Nonsense, Seven Dixie boys, Helene Davis Evolution of a Chorus Girl, the Eagle Sextette, Gordon's News Weekly, and other pictures.
Audiences at the Copley Theatre have shown strong interest in Inside the Lines set by Gibraltar with a plot about a scheme to destroy the British fleet in the bay. A surprise ending keeps viewers engaged. Wednesday features The Rivals and Friday’s matinee benefits the 101st Regiment U S Engineers.
Somerville Theatre manager Clyde McArdle announces the Somerville Players will present The Menace, a World War era drama set in New York about German agents and U S government countermeasures. Howard and Miss Bushnell lead with special scenery planned.
Charles Klein drama The Guilty Man screens at Modern Theatre this week in a stirring remembrance of the late playwright. A Petticoat Pilot with Vivian Martin runs as the companion photoplay, supported by short comedies and news pictures.
This week at Exeter Street Theatre Elaine Hammerstein leads The Correspondent with Jack Pickford in The Spirit of 17 Edith Castle is soloist and Claude E Saunier plays the Estey organ The remaining days feature WilliamS Hart in Wolves of the Rail and Alice Brady in Woman and Wife Hearst-Pathe Weekly will be shown at each performance.
A lively French intrigue unfolds as Estelle from nobility pretends to be a farmer’s daughter to enter a French regiment barracks. She meets Andre de Courcy, a runaway soldier, sparking a duel and romance. The colonel yields the match, with music by Herbert and strong dancing from Brian and Sewell.
The Castle Square players present Helen Ware in The Garden of AUah from Robert Hichens. Harry Morey In The Other Man and Fatty Arbuckle in Out West provide humor. Irene Castle stars in Stranded in Arcady and Franklyn Farnum in The Fighting Grin as the cabaret acts continue. A new tea room proves popular with the ladies.
The Franklin Park Theatre bills Tanya Fenner in The Painted Doll with A Pullman Bride as a comedy feature. Turner and Grace White Steppers Arizona perform. Viola Dana stars in The Winding Trail and The Hidden Hana promises mystery. Pathe pictures complete the vaudeville program.
The Beacon Theatre presents the Charles Klein drama The Guilty Man featuring a capable cast and a Cape Cod tale A Petticoat Pilot with Vivian Martin in the lead. News pictures and short comedies accompany the program for the week.
The Globe Theatre presents Intolerance during the current week. Producer Griffith, famed in film worldwide, showcases advances in modern photography as the picture receives a cordial reception and plays to immense audiences from opening.
At RB Keiths Theatre Elsie Janis led the show with lively imitations of Fred Stone and Will Rogers drawing the best applause. The program also featured The One Way Out with War era moral themes, Joe Jackson as The Original, and acts by Orth and Cody and others. The bill closed with Bert Shepherd and the Kane brothers amid news pictures.
Dr Leonard S Sugden speaker on Alaska at Tremont Temple debut lecture illustrated by natural color motion pictures. He notes 17 years in the north as surgeon guide and explorer, recounting dramatic hardships in pursuit of gold. Lectures to be repeated this week morning and evening.
Waldron's Casino features James FE Cooper's The Best Show in Town a two act musical comedy titled The Spenders with Billy K Wells writing the book and lyrics Raymond D Tevez choreographing the ensembles. Frank Hunter leads the blackface turn with a cast including Bert Lehr Frank Weson Ralph Rockaway Frank Davenport Bud Walker Jack Mack Virginia Ware and the Davenports offering a novelty posing act.
Gordon's Olympia Trouble features Titian tresses and five red headed beaux in peril alongside Empty Pockets at Scollay Square Olympia. Vaudeville includes Churchill's Revue a mini musical with 15 players Duffin Redcay troupe Whynot Vergie Tin Can Alley The Mirror and Edgar Winthrop Olympia News Weekly completes the bill.
The Lancaster Theatre presented Melting Millions with George Walsh as a son cut off by a wealthy father. Also on the bill Gates of Gladness starring Madge F Evans. Thursday adds Boston premieres Molly Go Get Em with Marguerita Fisher and The Square Deceiver with Harold Lockwood.
From New England and Boston crowds attend Raymond Hitchcock in Hitchy Koo at the Colonial Theatre. The novelty light entertainment showcases the personality of the star, with Hitchcock’s imprint visible though he is not the entire show, and every performance has sold out.
Park Square Theatre presents The Naughty Wife with Charles Cherry and associates drawing growing crowds. The play has little plot but lively action and amusing situations that keep audiences laughing, suggesting continued prosperity ahead.
The 13th Chair drew large crowds in its opening week in Boston with strong performances led by Margaret Wycherly. On Feb 18 George Arliss premieres Hamilton in this city for the first time.
The melodrama The Man Who Came Back at the Wilbur Theatre draws large audiences. Henry Hull and Laura Walker lead a well acted company delivering an old type melodrama with careful production.
William Collier remains a city favorite as he leads the cast in Nothing but the Truth at Plymouth Theatre. The production includes Lillian Lawrence Rapley Holmes Nea A Sparks Arnold Lucy Charles Walton and others in supporting roles.
The old play Lord and Lady Algy enjoys a new lease of life this week at the Majestic Theater with a strong cast including William Faversham Maxine Elliott MacIon Arbuckle Irene Fenwick and others. On Monday Maude Fulton stars in her own play The Brat.
The Parisian Flirts Burlesque Company led by Charley Robinson entertained Howard Atheneum patrons with lively performance. Notable acts included May Bernhardt Grace Lewis Freda Lehr and George B. Alexander with a continuous show featuring vaudeville cycling magic and musical numbers.
Crowds filled the Park Theatre to watch Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne in Under Suspicion with a plot of jewel theft and romance. William S. Hart stars in The Apostle of Vengeance as Henry Hudson in a family feud drama. Sidney Drew Mack Sennett Keystone comedy and a Pathe Weekly reel add variety. The Park Symphony Orchestra's overture drew applause as Harry Kelley returned to perform popular solos.
The Orpheum Theatre presented Miss Hamlet a Shakespeare spoof by a 10 member company. Other acts included Clifton and Cramer Bright Moments from Musical Comedy Irene Trevette Pinto accordionist Hubert Dyer Ben Coyne and the Florenz Duo. News Pictorial Fox film and Flare-Up Sal with Dorothy Dalton also screened. Thursday brings The Down Home Ten and Brown of Harvard in Boston debut.
An all star vaudeville program at Loew s St James Theatre featured Fields and Halliday in The Raw Recruit with camp rookies mis haps, Shannon and Moore in A Shine Flirtation, plus Lillian Watson Musical Macks and Ishikawa brothers. On screen News Pictorial Comedy Studio Girl with Constance Talmadge. The bill changes Thursday to Knapp and Cornalla and sixth retreat of The Retreat of the Germans with Flare Up Sal starring Dorothy Dalton.
Sam Sidman began a week at the Gayety Theatre with a hotel setting where two comedians seek savings. Sidman as a chambermaid provokes laughter while John Quigg a strong blackface comedian shines as a musician. Frankie Niblo sings ragtime, Jean Irwin impresses with voice, Carlson sisters charm, Elmer Brown offers bass, and the chorus, costumes, and supporting cast including Dave Meyer Jack Howard and George Thurston round out the lineup.
The Boomerang continues to attract patrons at Tremont Theatre with Arthur Byron Wallace Eddinger Martha Hedman and Ruth Shepley in leading roles supported by a strong company. The engagement’s success shows the public’s appreciation for a well acted charming play.
The Council of National Defence woman’s committee considers enrolling school, college, and women for farm work after a conference at the State House. It supports placing girls on farms alongside boys and notes training for leaders has been arranged by Mrs. Louis Kennedy Morse.
John Howard Thuline, of Headquarters Company 108d U S Infantry 26th Division A E F, stationed Somewhere in France, asks readers to help locate his mother Mrs Mary Thuline and sister Daisy Thuline whom he has not seen in 11 years. He requests any information be shared with the editor of the Post. The appeal is dated December 29, 1917.
Wyles Lb. Bradley of Mount Vernon New York a flying cadet at Ellington Field was burned to death when his plane fell today as the gasoline tank exploded in Houston Texas February 4.
The Boston Post invites readers to submit up to 200 words for the Baby Story Contest with three prizes a Double Gold Eagle $20 a Single Gold Eagle $10 and $5 in Gold. Include real name and address. stories may be original or not and will not be returned.
A child pretends to cry and a sister, Dot, helps by dabbing water on the face to evoke real tears. Mrs. W. F. Rust of Payson Avenue in Dorchester notes the playful scene where the girl says now mama real cry, turning a small moment into a fond memory.
A mother recalls taking her two year old daughter Jessie Isabella Frye blueberry picking. While in her carriage half a mile from home the child fainted amid heat and disappeared in thick woods, prompting a distressing search.
A woman recalls her frightened child rushing home to find her father during the war. The child vows to help in the war effort by sewing buttons and knitting, attends Sunday school, and tells the mother not to worry, to which the mother, Mrs. Harry W. Frye of Wilton New Hampshire, adds a brief note.
A family dinner anecdote from Manchester New Hampshire describes a daughter Margaret waiting for a large variety of desserts. Her mother’s friend hosts a lunch featuring leftovers and promises a large dessert assortment. Margaret politely declines each option, waiting for the promised variety instead.
Corondine visits her son's family in another state during Decoration Day events, sharing memories and explaining the tradition to relatives.
Arthur Johnson, two, attended his first church service and commanded the congregation to sit while the others stood. The moment sparked amused whispers as adults tried to resume normal order.
Mrs Emma Johnson of 52 Jalbert Avenue Woonsocket Rhode Island reports her child speaks English and French understands both and can tell time name and address He recognizes relatives knows his own name and address and responds to a Boston Post bundle He thanks his mother and a photo of him is sent for publication.
A Worcester reader recalls a touching street encounter with a ragged, sunlit haired baby named Sunshine. Elizabeth Cares for the child after the mother’s death, with the child calling her mamma and praying for her late mother, preserving memory in a child’s faith.
Regina a three year old watched a fly intently at a window noting its legs and then remarking the fly was shaking hands with itself. Later she toured a large convent boarding school corridor and quietly called it a big house revealing sharp observation.
Chester J. Campbell, manager of the Boston Auto Show, reports record sales and large crowds at the Chicago Auto Show. He says the event dispels gloom in the auto trade and forecasts strong business for the Boston show opening March 2. Hotels were crowded and dealers noted rising sales versus last year.
President Percy Haughton plans to urge the National League to adopt a blanket rule barring any club from employing players who have enlisted or been drafted for war service. He aims to have owners vote at the upcoming annual meeting in New York, despite being bedridden with grippe.
Dutch Leonard arrived in town from New York and met with President Harry Frazee. He disclosed his draft classification as Class III or I and said he may pitch next season. Leonard plans a brief stay, then returns to San Francisco to manage raisin crop interests before reporting to Hot Springs for spring training.
Brookline High defeated Boston College High 8 to 1 at University Heights yesterday afternoon in a rough contest. O'Brien starred in goal for Brookline, with assists from Mahan Taylor and O'Hearn. Scorers included Trealey O'Learn Caylor and Faulkner. BC High's Healey scored their sole goal.
Principal Carl D Burtt awarded A letters to 15 Arlington High School football players for the 1917 season at yesterday’s opening exercises. Recipients include Captain-elect Hubert Danton, John Cadogan, John Lynch, Charles Moore, Parks Odenweller, Ralph Gallagher, Francis O Keefe, Russell Badley, James Quinn, Robert Smith, Edward Viano, Jordan Silver, Charles Toomey and Robert White.
The Middlesex School in Concord will issue the first call for 1918 baseball candidates within a fortnight after the ice hockey season ends. The school plans indoor practice in a large cage suitable for battery, welding and batting sessions.
St Louis born baseball figure Jack Kine Crooks former second baseman with the St Louis Nationals died in this city. He played with Chris von der Ahe's team in 1859 and 1890.
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