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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1922
Page
8
Helen MacKellar and Back Pay have drawn strong crowds at the Selwyn Theatre but other attractions risk ending the run soon. No final date is set. a quick notice may announce it. Those who have not seen Miss MacKellar and Denay should attend promptly.
A vintage ad touts Danderine as stopping hair loss and dandruff with a bottle costing 5 cents. One application allegedly leaves no dandruff or shedding, and hair is said to gain life vigor brightness color and fullness.
Jack Reid lights up the Howard Athenaeum with Celtic wit and non stop merriment. The audience roared with enthusiasm as Reid and a cast of captivating performers kept the burlesque show roaring through a continuous program featuring vaudeville acts and a Hoot Gibson film.
Mae Murray stars as Cleo in Peacock Alley at the Park Theatre all week. Elmer Harmon falls for her in Paris but troubles follow as their life unfolds in New York and back home. Also shown is Raymond Hatton in His Back Against the Wall with a tale of a mistaken killer and comic bravado.
A strong cast of singers dancers and fun makers plus Ed Holders educated mule staged Garden Frolics at the Gayety Theatre. Pearl Hamilton performed serpentine dances while Leu Powers led the comedy with a versatile turn. Joe Lyons Jack Shutts Lillian Bessent Donna Hage Dot Stewart also entertained as audiences erupted in laughter.
Pauline Frederick stars in Two Kinds of Women a western romance with riding scenes as Judith at Blue Lake ranch who defeats a crook overseer and marries her foreman Bud Lee. Silent Years follows Mamselle Jo in Canada raising Donelle amid debt and family secrets, Rose Dione and Pauline Starke co starring. plus International News and Free and Easy comedy.
Douglas Fairbanks provides excellent entertainment in The Three Musketeers at Exeter Street Theatre today and Wednesday. For the last three days of the week John Barrymore offers a splendid performance in The Lotus Eater and Mary Miles Minter appears in Tilly.
Bert Lytell and Harry Morey headlined a strong Bowdoin Square Theatre bill with personal appearances and a top cart of features. Lytell, once with the Bowdoin stock company at 19, returns to screen fame alongside Morey in a weeklong showcase including Ten Nights in a Barroom and the Idle Class, plus vaudeville acts and acrobats. Bargain night Friday promises the biggest bill yet.
Cecil B. DeMille’s Saturday Night headlines Loew’s Orpheum with Edith Roberts as Shamrock O Day and Beatrice Joy, plotting rival lives of a laundress and an heiress. The film features daring rescues and shifting marriages set in New York. Vaudeville acts Cardo Noll Hazel Green Flying Howards Harris Moore close the program with Pathe News. Show runs all week with a Thursday vaudeville change.
The Browne sisters and 10 performers headline this week at Scollay Square Olympia delivering novelty. Margaret Hoffman and Company perform Frizzled in a neatly staged one act. Ja Da Quo and Anger and Parker present There is a Reason. A Thunderclap race track drama stars Mary Carr.
John Lowell will personally appear at today’s performances of Ten Nights in a Bar-room at the Globe Theatre Where JL Case Russell’s adaptation is staged He portrays Joe Morgan the regenerated bar-room victim in the photo play and will meet the audience after the show.
Two photoplays were shown at the Lancaster Theatre along with short comedies and news reels. Richard Barthelmess led Experience and Trank Mayo appeared in Across the Deadline, with Thursday’s program to feature Pauline Frederick in Luve of Jade and Viola Dana in The Fourteenth Lover.
D W Grimm’s motion picture Orphans of the Storm runs at Tremont Theatre for seventh week drawing remarkable audiences never seen before in the city. The work of the master director continues to attract new patrons.
The Theatre Guild of Boston under Miss Marie Ware Laughton announces a spring 1922 season with three one act plays on February 10 at Union Hall Boston. The program includes Bushindo a Japanese play Duty an Irish comedy and Dorinda Dares a dramatization by Angela Morris.
The Jack Singer Show drew large crowds yesterday at Waldron's Casino. Harry and Willie Landers provided two lively acts as principal comedians. Will Work and Dusty Rhoades drew big laughs. Ameta Pynes danced from modern waltz to Pavlova gavotte with Bert McCarthy assisting, while Misses May Walsh and Betty Fuller sang and danced. The Paramount Four delivered a brilliant success.
The Sin of Martha Queed presented at the Boston Theatre is a clean human family drama featuring Mary Thurman and an all star cast. A stern father clashes with sentiment while a boastful relative schemes to wed the heroine, leading to a dramatic courtroom and escape. Al Moore’s U S Jazz Band tops the vaudeville with other acts including The Gyp and The Editor of the Annihilated Press with comedy and song throughout the bill.
Mrs Ann Kiernan of Providence Rhode Island says she suffered weeks of dizziness chills sleepless nights and loss of ambition. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills her nerves steadied appetite and digestion improved and she regained energy. The ad promotes the pills and a free booklet from Schenectady New York with mail order and in store availability.
Last night the Fenway Theatre presented Douglas Fairbanks in The Three Musketeers adapted from Alexander Dumas. The short subjects amused audiences and soloist Edwin Haslet offered pleasing numbers. Thursday’s bill features Fred Stone in The Duke of Chimney Butte and Lionel Barrymore in Boomerang Bill with an in person appearance.
Henry Jewett keeps The Casillis Engagement running another week at the Copley Theatre as crowds fill the house and Phyllis Cleveland earns a personal hit as the music hall singer.
Mabel Normand stars in Molly O at Gordon's Central Square Theatre for three days. The show boasts a large cast with many commendable performers, plus five acts of vaudeville, latest news and pictorial pictures.
McIntyre and Heath relocated their touring show Red Pepper to the Shubert Theatre to capitalize on a larger seating capacity. The performance drew a full house last night.
Medical letters endorse Henry S. Wampole's Cod Liver Oil Extract as a superior treatment for pulmonary bronchial issues and malnutrition. Dr. Hubert H. Croft of Monroe North Carolina and Dr. Samuel Howard of Braddock Pennsylvania report long use and excellent results with the oil compound.
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