Mary Hits at Colonial in Brief Boston Run
Boston audiences welcomed Mary back to the Colonial for a brief engagement after a successful New York run. George M. Cohan selected the company and attended the opening. Cast includes Vonia O'Brien in the title role, Jack Keerie played by Guy Robertson, and Octavia Broske as Mamma Keene, with a lively Cohanesque chorus. The comedy musical romance features The Love Nest aria and strong audience enthusiasm.
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Mary
Boston
Tremont
New York
George M. Cohan
Guy Robertson
Jack Keerie
Vonia O’brien
Octavia Broske
Mamma Keene
Robinson Newbold
Gaston Marceau
Frank Otto
Va Puck
Harold Vizard
Sherman Wade
James Kelp
Edgar Smith
Harriet Morin
Boy Dies From Accidental Rifle Wound
In Brangeley Maine on February 7 14 year oldHarry Pick iken son of Guy Pickel died from wounds from the accidental discharge of his rifle when he passed it to a companion He lived only a few hours
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Brangeley
Harry Piciken
Guy Pickel
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
An old newspaper blurb touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for colds. It recommends taking a dose every two hours for three doses, claiming it clears clogged nostrils stops nose running relieves headache feverish feelings and dullness. The ad notes the remedy costs only a few cents and acts without assistance.
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Pape
Maid of the Mountains Presented at Boston Opera House
The initial performance of The Maid of the Mountains drew clear support for English songs sentiment and humor in Boston. Critics doubted local reception due to English characteristics but interest grew as the curtain rose and the show began.
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Boston Opera House
Boston
Daly Theatre
London
Musicial comedy operetta draws crowd at opera house
The performance blends song humor and action to please a full opera house. Fred Wright as Tonio shines, Viva Daron as Teresa impresses with encores, and a strong cast including H Mortimer White, Edward d Arcy, Paul Plunkett, Jack Durant, and Bert Byrne drives the show's success. Scenic effects and southern European costumes add vivid color across three acts.
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Broadway
Opera
Fred Wright
Tonio
London
Viva Daron
Teresa
Jose Collins
H. Mortimer White
Baldasarre
Edward d'Arcy
General Malona
Paul Plunkett
Beppo
Jack Durant
Carlo
Bert Byrne
Crumpet
Sardinia
Malona
Vittoria
Denied Use of Hall by American Irish Council
Brookline town leaders refused to permit Town Hall use for an March 17 entertainment organized by the Commodore John Barry Council of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic.
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Brookline
John Barry
American Association For the Recognition of
Keith Show Delivers Lively Boston Vaudeville Bill
A bustling Keith’s week presents Kitty Doner with Sister Rose and Brother Ted headlining a clever skit A League of Long Steps. The Doner family appears in Boston for the first time singing dancing and storytelling with lively costumes. Also featured are Joe Cook One Man Vaudeville Show Craig Campbell in ballads Ernest Thompson Seton Burt Gordon and Gene Ford plus Quixcy Four Ryan and Ryan and Topics of the Day with Kineograms. The varied revue promises ample laughs and upbeat entertainment for the audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith
Kitty Doner
Rose
Ted
Doner
Boston
Kitty
Bowery
Joe Cook
Alexander Brothers
Evylyn
Craig Campbell
Hector McCarthy
Ernest Thompson Seton
Wilds
Burt Gordon
Gene Ford
Quixcy Four
Ryan
Mary Pickford in The Love Light at Gordon's Cambridge
Last night at Gordon's Cambridge Central Square Theatre Mary Pickford was seen in The Love Light a gripping emotional drama. The Olympia Weekly offers a new comic picture the second episode of Son of Tarzan plus five vaudeville acts including Musical Hunters Bradley Randall and Deeds. On Thursday Lionel Barrymore stars in The Devil's Garden and five new vaudeville acts. Virginia Pearson with Sheldon Lewis and a four member company will be Seen in A Second Chance.
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Gordon
Cambridge Central Square Theatre
Mary Pickford
Olympia Weekly
Tarzan
Charlie Bradley
George Randall and
Magrath and
Deeds
Louis Stone
Lionel Barrymore
Virginia Pearson
Sheldon Lewis
Wilbur Theatre Hosts Love Birds Opening Night
The Love Birds season opener moved from the Shubert Theatre to the Wilbur Theatre last evening. Cast members Pat Rooney Marion Bent Elizabeth Murray Eva Davenport Elizabeth Hines Evelyn Cavanaugh Tom Dingle Harry May Grace Ellsworth Richard Bold James E Sullivan Barrett Greenwood and others delivered high scores and notable performances in the brisk musical comedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shubert Theatre
Wilbur Theatre
Pat Rooney
Marion Bent
Elizabeth Murray
Eva Davenport
Elizabeth Hines
Evelyn Cavanaugh
Tom Dingle
Harry May
Grace Ellsworth
Richard Bold
James E. Sullivan
Barrett Greenwood
Eddie Cantor Leads Final Boston Run at Majestic
Eddie Cantor and his merry conspirators headline the Majestic Theatre for the last two weeks of the Boston engagement, delivering song hits and rapid fire comedy to an enthusiastic crowd. Supporting acts include Nan Halperin, Harry Kelly, Lew Hearn, Helen Bolton, Green and Blyler, Ina Williams, Joe Opp, the Penn Four, Muriel De Forest and the chorus.
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Eddie Cantor
Majestic Theatre
Boston
Nan Halperin
Harry Kelly
Lew Hearn
Helen Bolton
Green and Blyler
Ina Williams
Joe Opp
Penn Four
Muriel de Forest
Chorus
Charles Ray Stars in Nineteen and Phyllis at Gordon's Olympia
Charles Ray appears as a 19 year old city youth in Nineteen and Phyllis at Gordon's Olympia. Clara Horton Lincoln Stedman George Nichols Cora Drew Frank Norcross and De Witte C Jennings headline a supporting cast. Also featured are current news weekly a new comic picture and five acts of vaudeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ray
Phyllis
Gordon
Olympia
Mr. Ray
Clara Horton
Lincoln Stedman
George Nichols
Cora Drew
Frank Norcross
de Witte C. Jennings
Clarence opens final week at Hollis Street Theatre
Booth Tarkington's comedy Clar ence ends its run in its concluding week at Hollis Street Theatre. The piece features a standard American family and a returned soldier with odd qualifications. Alfred Lunt leads an able company delivering a joyful performance praised as popular this season.
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Booth Tarkington
Clarence
Hollis Street Theatre
Alfred Lunt
Able Company
Globe Theatre Presents It's Up To You Cast
The Globe Theatre features Joseph Sant ley and Ivy Sawyer in the lively production It's Up To You with a nimble dance ensemble and energetic scores. Douglas Leavitt leads a Boston favorites supporting company in a crowd pleasing show.
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Globe Theatre
Joseph Santley
Ivy Sawyer
Douglas Leavitt
Boston
National Theatre Presents Vaudeville and Screen Offerings
A vaudeville program at the National Theatre features the two Fearls in novelty singing and dancing numbers plus three other acts. The week opens with the screening of Half A Chance starring Lillian Rich and Mahlon Hamilton, with a photoplay supplement news pictorial and new comedy. In the closing half of the week new vaudeville adds to William Favershang in The Man Who Lost Himself.
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Fearls
National Theatre
Lillian Rich
Mahlon Hamilton
William Favershang
Fenway Theatre Presents Behold My Wife This Week
A busy first half features George Melford's Behold My Wife starring Milton Sills Julienne Scott and Elliott Dexter with Henry Kelly as soloist. The second half showcases Fatty Arbuckle in The Life of the Party and Corinne Griffith in The Broadway Bubble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenway Theatre
George Meford
Wife
Milton Sills Noble
Julienne Scott
Elliott Dexter
Henry Kelly
Fatty” Arbuckle
Corinne Griffith
Joe Hurtig at the Casino Burlesque Week
Joe Hurtig presents Girls of the U. S. A. at Waldron's Casino in a two part show. First a musical travesty with a Hebrew character, then a varied specialty sequence ending with a burlesque on Julius Caesar. Cast includes Shd w, Ward, Bohlman, Lee, Thomas, Wilson, White, Grey and a chorus of 12. Vaudeville acts feature White and Grey, Shaw and Lee, Ward and Bohlman.
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Joe Hurtig
Waldron’s
Shakspere
Julius Ceasor
New York
al Shd
Marty Ward
John Bohlman
Sam Lee
Raymond Thomas
Nettie Wilson
Margaret White
Justine Grey
White
Grey
Shaw and Lee
Ward and Bohlman
Lulu Coates
All In Fun burlesque delight at Howard Atheneum
At the Popular Howard Atheneum yesterday the Tiddledy Wink troupe offered a joy feast with singing by Pretty girls and merriment from comedians led by Harry S LeVan and Ambark Ali. Ruth Hastings and Edythe Lyons stood out among the cast. Arthur Harrison featured as an artist in the title act, with a strong chorus and a strong vaudeville bill including The Man Off the Ice Wagon and O'Brien and Buckley. Blanche Sweet appeared in The Un pardonable Sin on the program registration. Next week, The Follies of Pleasure is announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Atheneum
Harry
LeVan
Ambark Ali
Ruth Hastings
Edythe Lyons
Pearl Briggs
Arthur Harrison
Howard
O’brien
Buckley
Blanche Sweet
Cleveland Symphony Opens Boston Debut Under Sokoloff
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra appears in Boston for the first time Thursday under Nikolai Sokoloff, ex-Boston violinist and Russian Symphony Orchestra concert master, with Arthur Shepherd as harmony and counterpoint instructor. The program blends classical works with modern pieces by Bloch, Chausson, D'Indy, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and more.
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Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Boston
Nikolai Sokoloff
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Russian Symphony Orchestra
Arthur Shepherd
New England Conservatory of Music
Cleveland Orchestra
Bloch
Chausson
D’indy
Rachmaninoff
Sibelius
Aubert
Converse
Debussy
Enesco
G. Faure
Loeffler
Ravel
Roussel
Strauss
Vaudeville acts lead Loew's Orpheum first half week
The Orpheum presents vaudeville headliners Smiletta sisters Benson and Sterling Armstrong and Joyce Renard and West in two acts. The Johnson brothers and Johnson and Keno Keyes and Melrose perform That Fellow Don’t Like Me. Dorothy Gish stars in The Ghost in the Garret with fresh comedy and Orpheum News. The closing three days feature new vaudeville and Owen Moore in A Chicken In The Case for continued diversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loew’s
Orpheum Theatre
Vaudeville
Smiletta
Benson
Sterling
Armstrong
Joyce
James
Renard
West
Johnson Brothers
Johnson
Keno
Keyes
Melrose
Dorothy Gish
Orpheum News
Owen Moore
Outside the Law and Baby at St James this week
At the St James this week the film Outside the Law stars Pris cilla Dean and a large cast while Fox comedy Baby plays alongside Pathe News. The vaudeville bill features the Augustin Players in The High Cost of Living with Al Shayne the three Herbert sisters Demarest and Doll and Panterer and Sylvia. Thursday adds Pearl White in The Mountain Woman Velvet Fingers No 7 and all new vaudeville.
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St. James
Law
Priscilla Dean
Fox
Pathe News
Augustin Players
al Shayne
Herbert Sisters
Demarest
Doll
Panterer
Sylvia
Pearl White
Honors Are Even at Park Square with Courtenay and Fisher
With undiminished popularity the production at Park Square Theatre features William Courtenay and Lola Fisher in twin leading roles. Mr Megrue's bright lines and entertaining plot are well presented by the pair and supported by trained, carefully selected associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Square Theatre
William Courtenay
Lola Fisher
Megrue
Copley Theatre Presents Strife Attracts Admirers
The Galsworthy drama Strife continues at the Copley Theatre drawing many admirers as each cast member shows precise training in their roles. Arnold Bennett's What the Public Wants is set to follow in rehearsal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copley Theatre
Galsworthy
Arnold Bennett
Babylon at Bowdoin Sq Bowdoin Square Theatre Review
A Boston screen program led with D W Griffiths The Fall of Babylon featuring a 125000 cast and stars Constance Talmadge George Fawcett Mildred Harris Tully Marshall Pauline Stark Leena Owen Alma Rubens and Elmo Lincoln The feast of Belshazzar chariot races and 4000 dancing girls drew applause Vaudeville included Havemanns animals and a Harry Carey West Is West showing plus Lary Lemon The Suitor Bargain features promised Friday next weeks Chaplin in The Kid exists as the next attraction
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin Square Theatre
D. W. Griffith
Constance Talmadge
George Fawcett
Mildred Harris
Tully Marshall
Pauline Stark
Leena Owen
Alma Rubens
Elmo Lincoln
Belshazzar
Havemann
Harry Carey
Lary Lemon
Pauline Fielding
Merlin
Flaherty and Stoning
Babe Walker
Charlie Chaplin
the Kid
Inside the Cup and Passion Fruit at Modern Beacon Theatres
Paramount showcases Inside the Cup at Modern and Beacon Theatres, praised as a sensational Churchill publication about a rector’s clash with hypocrisy. Doraldina stars in Passion Fruit, delivering daring Hawaiian dances and a South Sea Island dance tapestry. A news weekly and comedy complete the bill.
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Paramount
Modern
Beacon Theatres
Winston Churchill
Doraldina
Passion Fruit
South Sea Islands
Outside the Law at Scollay Square Olympia
Priscilla Dean headlines the Scollay Square Olympia with Outside the Law after a yearlong wait for a new star vehicle. Audiences hailed the crook drama as the best in years, praising Dean's revelatory performance and the strong supporting cast. The program also features the latest news weekly, a comic, and five vaudeville acts.
Twin Beds at Gordon's Old South Opens
The Old South Theatre presents the film version of the Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field farce Twin Beds. Sponsors and stars Mr and Mrs Carter De Haven headline a lively comedy with William Desmond and Helen Raymond also in the cast. Includes news weekly and an organ recital by Arthur J. Martel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon’s Old South
Margaret Mayo
Salisbury Field
Helen Raymond
Arthur J. Martel
Dead Men Tell No Tales at Boston Theatre This Week
The feature photo play Dead Men Tell No Tales, with boats blown up, runs the rest of the week at the Boston Theatre after premiering yesterday to large audiences. Vaudeville includes McIntosh Musical Maids Burns and Wilson Bender and Meehan Harry White Ray Ryan and Doran. Kineograms and Top leg of the Day also are killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
McIntosh
Burns and Wilson
Bender
Meehan
Harry White
Ray Ryan
Doran
Tremont Temple to show four Saturdays of children cinema
Tremont Temple will host a four week matinee and evening program for children from February 12 through March 6. Screenings run 10 40 a m to 6 30 p m with the films Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella Snow White plus a one reel Abra ham Lincoln life episode covering youth to manhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple
Abraham Lincoln
Exeter Street Theatre Shows This Week
Attractions for the first half include Mary Pickford in The Love Light and a Harold Lloyd comedy. For the last three days Wanda Hawley stars in The Snob and May Allison in The Marriage of William Ashe. Pathe News Weekly completes the bills.
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Exeter Street Theatre
Mary Pickford
Harold Lloyd
Wanda Hawley
May Allison
William Ashe
Pathe News Weekly
Somerville Theatre Presents Some Baby and Patsy After All
The Somerville Players deliver a rollicking Some Baby with Frank Thom as a lively character man and an aged scientist, Anne Bronaugh and Carrol Ashburn praised for pleasing roles. Director Kendall Weston’s staging earns acclaim as the company plans Patsy After All next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville Theatre
Somerville
Capital Entertainment
Frank Thomas
Anne Bronaugh
Carrol Ashburn
Kendall Weston
Sumner Nichol
Patsy
Gordon's Strand Presents The Mark of Zorro Film
Douglas Fairbanks stars in The Mark of Zorro at Gordon's Strand Theatre with parlor farces and lingerie spoof as light relief. The program also includes The Son of Tarzan episode two and an organ recital, offering varied entertainment amid current affairs debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Fairbanks
Gordon's Strand Theatre
the Son of
Tarzan
Malden Auditorium Stages The Ruined Lady
The Temple stock company presented The Ruined Lady at Malden Auditorium yesterday. The plot follows a young woman long engaged to a man seeking to provoke passion by a scandalous night encounter in his cottage, leading to entangling consequences. Miss Bushnell, Mr. Mortimer and the Temple company received high praise for the performance.
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Temple Stock Company
Malden Auditorium
Miss Bushnell
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