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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1919
Page
14
The Castle Square presentation of On Trial unfolds backward and forward through years to recount a murder case. A large cast delivers strong reading roles led by Dudley Ayres Aubrey Bosworth and Leah Winelow with clear courtroom drama and eye witness testimony.
George Walsh appears in Luck and Pluck at Gordon's Olympia with hair-breadth escapes. Vaudeville line up includes Gardner Vincent company in The Aeroplane Elopement Wright and Percival Trevell shadowgraphist Walter James Captain Barnett and company and the Olympia News Weekly.
The Better Ole comedy with music, based on Captain Bairnsfather’s war cartoons, runs its sixth week at Hollis Street Theatre. Edmund Gurney Percy Jennings and Leon Gordon portray Old Bill Alf and Bert with lively humor.
Fred Stows in Jack O Lantern opened the eighth week of the engagement at the Colonial Theatre last evening. Generosity appears to pay in the theatre as bountifully as elsewhere, and the continuous series of crowded houses hears testimony of this.
In the first half of the week at Franklin Park Theatre Fred Stone is seen in Under the Top. The vaudeville is headed by Dawne June the champion woman diver. A two act comedy completes the programme.
The Gayety Theatre play led by Sam Lewis and Sam Cody impressed patrons with a pretentious scenic production. Supporting cast includes Margaret White Witty Glasco Billie Mill Owen Martin Al Shaw and Sam Lee as the comedy drew laughs from its elaborate settings.
For early week the program includes Dont Change Your Husband starring Henry G. Walthall and A Still Small Voice with Newsweek and a comedy. On Thursday and Saturday Julia Dean and Fidwin Arden appear in Hut ne Passions with Gracey Leslie in Or One's iht as Burton Holmes travels with Jews Weekly and comedy.
This week at Exeter the first three days feature Anita Stewart in Virtuous Wives and Fred Stone in Under the Top. Remaining days present The Romance of Happy Valley by D W Griffith and Madge Kennedy in Day Dreams along with Pathé newsreels and comedies.
The Copley Theatre concludes its final week presenting a crowded illustrated comedy to theatergoers. Patrons pack the venue as reviews praise wit and ensemble energy during the closing performances.
Marguerite Sylva recalled bygone Boston stage fame at Keith's Theatre yesterday delivering delightful vocal offerings. The vaudeville bill matched usual excellence with Ruth Reye, the Ward brothers, Stephens and Trollidter, Lalla Selbini, Morris and Campbell, William Cutty, the Gareinetti brothers, Waimar and Brow, and News Pictures.
The Theodore Roosevelt motion picture project portrays his life from cradle to grave with profits donated to Red Cross and war charities. The Boston Opera House will host the first New England showing next Thursday evening under the Junior Charity Club of Boston. The film highlights Roosevelt’s early virtues and rugged West experiences.
Alice Brady appears in In the Hollow of Her Mind at the Park Theatre this week with an admirable supporting cast. Mary Miles Minter features in Wives and Other Wives. The Vitagraph comedy provides laughs and the weekly news items intrigue readers. Robert Carlson is the vocal soloist.
Owen Johnson's Virtuous Wives starring Anita Stewart played at Upham's Corner Strand last night. The same bill featured Tom Moore in Go West Young Man and the Strand News Weekly. For Thursday to Saturday Lina Cavalieri in Two Brides heads the bill with Wallace Reid in The Dub.
Fivelyn Nesbit stars as Alice Lindsay in a tale where a woman sacrifices herself to save her husband. The show runs with vaudeville acts led by Harry and Anna Scranton, Dotson, Middleton and Spellmeyer in An Ocean Wooing, plus Marion and Jean and Big Jim and company at the Olympia News Weekly venue.
The Codman Square Theatre offers four vaudeville acts this week headlined by Tour Weltong Renzettas Truce and Simith and Garfield with Constance Talmadge in Sauce for the Goose on screen. A change Thursday adds Mae Marsh in The Racing Strain plus new vaudeville acts.
The Romance of Happy Valley a D W Griffith picture is shown at the St James Theatre for the first half of the week along with The Iron Test the Pathe Weekly and vaudeville A complete bill change will occur on Thursday
The Crowded Hour by Edgar Selwyn and Channing Pollock begins another strong week at Park Square Theatre in Boston. The production earns praise for dramatic intensity acting and stagecraft, rivaling the best in years.
This week at the Lancaster Theatre features Gladys Rockwell in The Call of the Seoul Peggy Hyland stages A Girl of Notegrets William Hart appears in Branding Broadway Constance Tal medee performs Mrs Ledingwell's Book and Montini stars in The Madern Abysters in the first half of the week
Review of the Shubert Theatre production Take It From Me praising its bright musical comedy style. Highlights Vera Michelena Jack McGowen Grace Gordon Alice Hills and Will Stone and Will Anderson as creators with songs like The Kiss and Call of the Cozy Little Home.
Little Simplicity a three act musical saw its first Wilbur Theatre presentation last evening. Aida Johnson Young wrote the text and lyrics with Augustus Barratt composing the music. Incidental dances were choreographed by Jack Mason and Alexis Kosloff.
A traveling party of students led by Erasmus Duckworth visits Algiers where Veronique a flower girl is saved from sale. Veronique and Alan Van Cleeve fall in love until his father intervenes. Five years later in France Veronique now a singer encounters him again during wartime. A Tuneful romantic comedy with strong performances by Mabel Withee Marjorie Gateson and Walter Catlett and praised Cameron Sisters dancing.
The Howard Atheneum presented a lively burlesque show led by Jules Jacobs and Lew Golden. Nellie Nice and her sister Emily drew attention as top acts along with Tilsie Donnely Bouette and Carter and a vaudeville lineup including the O Neil sisters and the Toleen sisters. The performance ran continuously through the evening.
Ruth Clifford headlines The Game's Up at the Boston Theatre in the current bill. The vaudeville includes Chief Canpolican the Indian orator Madison and Winchester Green and Delier the Brads and Wears Snow Franklin. The Pathe Weekly offers latest news stories in pictures.
The Orpheum Theatre presents a first half program headlined by the Six Virginia Steppers led by Vera Burt. Barron and Burt Emily Smiley and company in The Family Tree Robb and Stewart in Back to School Days and The Nor vel les also appear. Screen nightly news pictures a Mack Sennett comedy and The One Woman. The last half showcases The Reel Guys musical, Good-For-Nothing with Harry First and company Eva Shirley Harmon and Harmon Swain’s cats and rats and Charlie Ray in The Girl Dodger.
The Merry Rounders graces Waldron's Casino with Abe Reynolds and Florence Mills as stars in their final burlesque season. Reynolds will move to Broadway next year while Mills pursues film work. Abe Leavitt supplies a witty book The Smugglers. Max Spiegel stages an innovative cast with mostly new talent.
Pauline Frederick appears this week at the Modern Theatre in Paid in Yali as a wife. Marguerite Clark impersonates Lovey Mary in Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Short comedies and news pictures complete the bill.
Bowdoin Square Theatre offered The Still Alarm with its realistic scenes yesterday. The production, a stage favorite with a popular screen version, runs the full week. Also shown were William Faversham in The Silver King and a Mack Sennett comedy. Vaudeville featured Charles and Mayme Sullivan the Astor sisters Andrew Vissochi Scott and Kane and Herbert Taylor.
The Globe Theatre continues a weekly slate featuring The One Woman and Hard Boiled with Dorothy Dalton in the zyrole. A Mack Sen comedy also plays.
Pauline Frederick stars in Paid in Full and Marguerite Clark performs Lovey Mary at the Beacon Theatre this week along with short comedies and news reels.
A light hearted Tre mont production Polly With a Past becomes a little gem from Middleton Bolton Belasen. Iaa Claire shines as Polly in Parisian guise with clever accent and stage presence. Cyril Scott Herbert Yost H Reeves Smith and Louise Galloway lead a strong ensemble in a witty farce about romance and disguise.
A fragment describes Polly Shannon maintaining a decorous household for several bachelors, including a wealthy fiancé to a new woman devoted to helping the unfortunate, leaving little time for romance.
Inez Sebring and Francis Verdi performed at a stage event with Verdi presenting a piano selection described as well worth hearing, highlighting the quality of the musical offerings and the collaborative spotlight on the two performers.
Majestic Theatre features MelIntyre and Heath in Hello Alexander as Boston audiences welcome the show. The second week began with the curtain rising to a warm reception and many pleasing features highlighted by the principals.
Last night the Plymouth Theatre opened another week of Lombardi, T.Id. to a large audience that showed clear delight in the comedy and in the presentation by Leo Carrillo, Grace Valentine, and the company.
Thirty five suffragists arrested for burning Wilson effigy in protest over the suffrage amendment were tried in Police Court. Twenty five received five days, one two days, others dismissed. From the district jail they announced plans for a hunger strike.
An unusual photoplay shown at Tremont Temple features Dr. Selma Lagerlof's The Girl from the Marsh Croft. The story follows Helga a Swedish girl who errs under a farmer’s influence but reforms, falls in love, faces murder accusations, and ultimately finds triumph with authentic Swedish home life and northern scenery.
The Seventh annual concert and ball of the Hellenic Association Patria of Boston was held last night in Paul Kevrere Hall. President Paul Tsoutsos led the event with committee aides P. Demetsecotis Christas Tsoutsos A. P. Cocoris Kk Kalelis E Atilas Ath Stefos and I Grammaticoutis assisting.
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