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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1915
Page
9
Anny Lew Fields notes The High Cost of Loving at the Shubert Theatre last evening showcases Lew Fields in a straight role after a career in burlesque. He proves again that a talented actor can pull off a successful transformation from buffoon to refined comic.
A German comedy adaptation stars Mr. Fields as Ludwig Klinke in a tale of midlife reform attempts undone by flirtations and a blackmail plot. The cast includes Alice Fisher, Charlotte Ives, James Lackaye, and Grace Meinken in a lively moral satire critiquing virtue and temptation.
The text notes Mr. Fields shifts from a comic business man image to a more dignified portrayal. The familiar accent walk and posture remain, but there is a newly observed depth of pathos and kindness that enhances his character.
A four act drama headlines an all star cast led by Mile Tzernowa and Bryand Cheerbert with the Five Marvellous Manchurians as top attractions at National Tremont and Berkeley streets for the first three days of this week. The act features Oriental acrobats, juggling and aerial feats suspended by their queues. Dad Lozier and others perform novelty numbers with new comedy pictures and a Thursday programme change. Free copies of The Wrocker's Prayer are handed out at performances.
The Wilbur Theatre production A Pair of Sixes enters its seventh week with strong attendance. Critics note a clever clean farce that relies on wit rather than risqué humor, keeping audiences in convulsions of laughter.
The Grand Opera House showcased the Charming Widows Burlesque with two acts, A Day in Nice and In the Alps, featuring Eddie Dala Lillian Mnglish Pauline Palmer Simone Bery and others to strong audience reception. Upcoming events include Cyclone Burns vs Dixie Rob Allen wrestling and a Friday night circus with new talent plus Sunday concerts.
The Gaiety Theatre presents a strong Gaiety Girls show this week led by Zella Russell with Mae Holden Anna Haywood and Mabel McCloud as featured performers. Gus Fay and Harry Morton headline the two clever comedians with Feeley Heller Hivans and Mullen providing the supporting acts. The Haywood sisters display refined musical numbers and Holden and Evans lead a dancing quartet while Russell delivers piano and vocal specialties.
Leo Ditrichstein and company opened the three act comedy drama The Phantom Rival at the Colonial Theatre. The English adaptation by Ditrichstein is based on a German comedy by Ferenc Molnar, a playwright familiar to local audiences from previous works including The Devil.
Louise Marshall as a jealous wife confronts a remembered lover who returns from Russia. A dream sequence offers roles of a soldier singer diplomat and tramp before revealing the ordinary truth. The piece blends realism with fantasy and ends with matrimonial reconciliation and praised performances by Marshall, Ditrichstein, and Williams.
The Globe Theatre showcased a star studded vaudeville program yesterday. Willard Hutchinson performed a comedy sketch while Gertrude Barnes presented the Oh Joy Girl. Aveling and Lloyd, Morris and Wilson, Kanazawa Trio, and a Photoplays feature also appeared alongside The Exploits of Elaine The Double Trap episode to close the bill.
Mr. Gleason announces a Wednesday evening illustrated lecture at Tremont Temple on San Francisco’s remarkable growth. Mrs. Gleason’s art enhances the slide coloring for the presentation tied to this year’s grand exposition.
Gordon's Olympia yesterday drew large audiences for the Marcus musical company. Mike Sacks and Eddie Foyer provided strong acts with new stories and versatile comedy. Marey’s Titanic Disaster impressed as a mechanical and electrical reproduction, with the Master Key serial photo-play and other recent pictures shown.
A theatre program yesterday showcased Franklyn Ardell in The Suffragette and a lineup including Weston and Young singing and talking, Burke and Harris with new songs and comedy, Azards brothers acrobatics, Herbert and Dennis, a colored troupe led by Dora Dean, King Saul and Miss Mary Donahue, plus the photoplay Exploits of Elaine episode seven The Double Trap.
Marcus Loew celebrates at St James Theatre with top stars Walsh Lynch and company in Huckin's Run Sherman Van Hyman with new Boston Moon ideas Holmes Wells singing sketch Lawton juggling and Exploits of Elaine episode The Double Trap. Paul Panzer performs a motion picture star recital.
Edward Peple's new comedy The Girl plays this week starring Brandon Wurst and company as a wealthy rival for a girl. The program also features A Set Room with Murphy and Blanche Nichols, a Tokyo troupe of eight gymnasts, ventriloquist Montgomery, and Madame Alla Nayvimova in War Sides. Next week headliner is Marion Craig Wentworth's War Sides with seats on sale.
Joe Hurtig’s Bowery Purlesquers perform two parodies in Boston at Charley Waldron’s Casino. Tratagerald and Quinn play district attorney and Casey the cop, with a cast including Charles Jansen Murray Belmont George Snyder Bobby Sturrington Josie Kline Dolly Barnes Jane May Edna Green the prima donna. The show features court scene humor and a dancing specialty, with gowns and chorus costumes drawing audience interest.
The drama Ben Hur has attracted more than 90 000 people to the Boston Theatre in four weeks and entered its fifth week last night. Reviewers note the spellbinding tale of the Nazarene and his miracles that keeps the audience in a continued tense grip from the opening act.
The Mawson Lecture at Tremont Temple enters its final week showing Sir Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic expedition motion pictures. Dr Hunsberger recounts Mawson’s narrow crevasse escape and other perils. Seals, sea elephants, skua gulls, penguins, and snow petrels add to the Antarctic spectacle.
William Faversham, a Boston favorite, delivers a polished and flawless portrayal as Comte de Casetta in The Hawk at the Majestic Theatre. The Hungarian nobleman, suiting high society yet scheming at cards to fund his wife’s luxuries, showcases the actor’s refined dramatic skill in the second week of the engagement.
The performance at Tre last evening featured RD H Crosby in a daring religious themed work. Critics note the topic is seldom shown on stage and may offend some, but the production is not sermonizing and satisfies its mission without preaching.
The Dio stage presents a dramatization of Frank L. Packard's novel by George M. Cohan. Four crooks target a cured old man in Milne, but their schemes unravel as the old man’s simple faith and neighbors reveal latent good. George Nash leads the crooks, James C. Marlowe and Earle Browne enhance the cast, Gail Kane shines as the female conspirator, with a strong supporting group and an epilogue to neatly resolve all fates.
The Plymouth Theatre comedy Too Many Cooks is into its third week, drawing strong crowds and praise for its distinctly American wit and humor, signaling continued popularity and possible expansion beyond New York.
Hollis Street Theatre plans Billie Burke’s return to the stage in Jerry at the Hollis on Thursday evening next after a recent indisposition. Burke has almost fully recovered and will reprise her performance in the production.
Howard Atheneum greeted Dick Rudolph star pitcher of the Boston Braves for a week of baseball nights. Rudolph, famed for opening and closing wins versus the Athletics, drew fans with his twisters and World Series glory. Burlesque acts and variety stars accompanied the show, including Harcourt the height performer and various comedians and contortionists.
A large Bowdoin Square audience welcomed character actor Hyman Adler who presented Solomon's Barrlain to strong encores. The program included a notable film titled See America First with extensive travel scenes and landmarks. Vaudeville acts by the Tuscano brothers Dean Sibley and Moore Honey Johnson Mack and Williams and Al Brown capped a varied program with canine and musical routines.
Teily Jewett Players stage a notable Fire Merchant of Venice at the Boston Opera House with strong performances by R Z Maclean Viva Birkett Mary Worthes Viola Compton and others. Theater plans to swap to The Merry Wives of Windsor next week while the Livinston Platt set enhances three one act plays at the Toy Theatre through Thursday and weekend matinees.
The Park Theatre features Kier Triumph with Gaby Deslys in her first motion picture. Daniel Frohman presents Deslys and Mlle Desirus with Harry Pilcer in dances famed on stage. A distinguished cast supports the screen star, marking rapid progress in high class photo plays.
The second week of What's Going On opened last evening at the Cort Theatre. A large audience saw improvements and brisk pacing. Frances Cameron, Dorothy Webb, Walter Laurence, Roy Atwell, Doyle and Dixon lead a merry cast with continuous humor.
Mrs Treslee Carter drew the largest Monday audience in the Modern Theatre history while appearing in Du Barry. The six part production features tense scenes and many views photographed on the same parts. She will continue for the entire week.
The Castle Square Theatre has extended the run of Common Clay into a new week in Boston. The play draws crowds who have seen it multiple times, praised for a strong plot and notable performances by Mary Young John Craig William P. Carleton Betty Barnicoat Mabel Colcord and Dudley Hawley. No ending date is announced.
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