Love Watches Delights Boston Audiences At Hollis Street Theatre
The Hollis Street Theatre filled for both performances as Love Watches continues. Miss Burke stars as Jacqueline with Maude Odell back on the Boston stage as a charming widow. Ernest Lawford shines as Augarde the book worm in a witty farce with strong supporting turns. Engagement runs this week only with Ethel Barrymore to follow on Monday March 1.
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Boston
New York
Jacqueline
Miss Burke
Andre
Maude Odell
Miss Odell
Ernest Lawford
Augarde
Ana
W. H. Crompton
The Evangelist at Castle Square Theatre Boston
Henry Arthur Jones play The Evangelist delights two audiences in Boston as he portrays a diligent clergyman battling isolation. Set in Trentistown mid England the mansion of Mr Nuneham the story follows evengel ist Gylvanus Rebbings and the sympathetic portrayal of the erring woman. The cast includes Craig Binley Young Beverly West and Fred Murray with strong support. Performances repeat Wednesday and Saturday with Circus Girl planned for Tuesday Thursday and Friday.
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Boston
Castle Square
Henry Arthur Jones
Jones
Trentistown
mid-England
Gaiety Theatre Glitters With Bobby Manchester Cracker Jacks
At the Gaiety Theatre this week patrons enjoy a lively show full of song and dance. Bessie Pardue leads a bijou troupe including Rubi Teoni and La Belle Marie, with comedians Billy Hart James Bow man and William Bowman keeping the pace brisk. The highlight is the Piroscoffis juggling act from Russia, impressing with feats from needle to anchor. Terpsichore's Dream closes the program.
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Gaiety Theatre
Bobby Manchester
Bessie Pardue
Rubi Teoni
la Belle Marie
Lillie Vedder
Madeline Gordon
Ella Thomas
Billy Hart
James Bowman
Billy
Bob Millard
William Bowman
Piroscoffis
Fussia
Scenic Temple Shows A Capitol Night Of Entertainment
The Scenic Temple performance ran from 2 PM to 10 30 PM with a full house. Washington's Birthday features drew hearty praise, illustrated songs with dissolving views delighted audiences, and the bill included a clever monologue vocalists instrumentalists and a comedy sketch.
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Washington
The Witching Hour Tops Majestic in Boston Debut
Augustus Thomas play The Witching Hour at the Majestic Theatre enters its second week with John Mason starring as Jack Brookfield. Record crowds filled the house as audiences praised Mason’s forceful portrayal and the strong cast, with performances still fresh after nearly 30 shows.
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Boston
Augustus Thomas
John Mason
Majestic Theatre
Majestic
Mr. Mason
Jack Brookfield
Tremont Theatre Delights Boston With A Waltz Dream
The Tremont Theatre enters its second week with A Waltz Dream delighting Boston audiences. Vienna’s comic opera charm shines in a lavish German beer garden scene featuring an all female orchestra and festive lighting. Sophie Brandt leads the orchestra while Josie Sadler shines as Fifi with a strong chorus and solid performances from Henry Coote and Mildred Rogers.
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Tremont Theatre
Vienna
Boston
Dainty
Sophie Brandt
Octavia Brosche
Josie Sadler
Fifi
Henry Coote
Joseph W. Herbert
Lawrence Coever
Mildred Rogers
Burlesque at Columbia Theatre Delights Large Audiences
The Fashion Plates presented two vivid burlesque acts with lively characters led by Mike McDonald H L Harvey Rose Carlin and Kichi Hashimoto delivering sensational aerial stunts and clever comic bits. Manager Farren announced a wrestling bout Willoughby vs Young Sandow and a chorus girls contest on upcoming nights.
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Columbia Theatre
Mike McDonald
H. L. Harvey
Rose Carlin
Columbia
Alio Kichi Hashimoto
Boston
Charles Falke
Three Lyres
Medallens
Edwards
Ward
Hebrew College
Farren
Willoughby
Young Sandow
Palace Theatre Crowded for Two Performances by Moulin Rouge Company
The Palace Theatre drew full houses yesterday as the Girls of the Moulin Rouge Company delivered a two act burlesque, A Night in New York. Charles Howard stars with James H. Lichter John B. Wilson Sammy Brown and others while Ida Emerson leads the female cast and Corrinne T Lamond May Nestel Jennie and Clara Austin appear in principal roles.
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Palace Theatre
Moulin Rouge
New York
Dreamland By the Sea
Astor
Charles Howard
James H. Lichter
John B. Wilson
Sammy Brown
D. F. Crossman
Harry Lyons
M. Saxe
Ida Emerson
Corrinne Tlamond
May Nestel
Jennie
Clara Austin
Theatre Comique Crowds Enjoy Holiday Features
The Theatre Comique offered holiday specials with a busy bill yesterday. The program included films The New Governess Uprising of Barker Isis First Flight Choice of Weapons and How Mother in Law Got Even with patriotic songs and Travelogues of New York harbor. Performers Edith Mellor Mae Vincent Alexander Frazier and Gertrude Mann appeared this week.
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Popular
Theatre Comique
Barker
Isis
New York Harbor
Edith Mellor
Mae Vincent
Alexander Frazier
Gertrude Mann
Indigestion Advice Promoted by Riker J aynes Drug Co
An old warning on sour stomach symptoms links indigest ion to fermentation and gas. The notice promotes Miona tablets for 50 cents and claims quick relief and permanent cure, with money-back satisfaction if no improvement. Booth's Laxative Pills are also advertised at 25 cents a box.
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Riker-Jaynes Drug Co
Booth
Park Theatre Burlesque Shines In Boston Matinee and Night
Hattie Williams headlines the Park Theatre as Fluffy Ruffles enters its fourth week. The holiday crowds greeted her strong mimicry with praise. Supporting cast includes Boston favorites William Norris Bert Leslie Marion Abbott Josephine Drake delivering lively acts and recalls.
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Hattie Williams
Park Theatre
Boston
Miss Williams
William Norris
Bert Leslie
Marion Abbott
Josephine Drake
Boston Theatre Hosts Cohan Harris Minstrel Spectacle
Hundreds attend at the Boston Theatre as George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris stage a major minstrel show. The program features Press Eldridge in a new monologue, Rice and Prevost in Bumpty Bumps, Waterbury brothers and Tenney, and Julian Eltinge impersonations. A big marching number After the Battle and a 80 minute Belle of the Barbers Ball sketch are included. Welcome Home marks two weeks from March 1 with Way Down East returning. Seat sales begin this morning.
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Boston
George M. Cohan
Sam H. Harris
Press Eldridge
Rice
Prevost
Waterbury Brothers
Tenney
Julian Eltinge
James Gorman
Miss Davies
Ella Hugh Wood
Alice Collins
Crowded Holiday Show At Austin and Stones Museum
A bustling holiday crowd filled Austin and Stone's Museum with extra performances in the curio hall. The all star bill featured Ceylon dancers, Irish pipers Nolan and Cahill, street musician Vilinci, the Atarris Japanese magicians, the Manhattan Girls, skit "Emeline's Lovers" with Ted Steele and Tom Bullock, plus musical acts Elsa and Campbell and more. Motion pictures closed an lively program of vaudeville and dance.
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Austin & Stone’s
Curio Hall
Ceylon
Far East
Nolan
Cahill
John Vilinci
Atarris
Merry Manhattan Girls and Company
Ted Steele
Tom Bullock
Emeline
Elsa and
Campbell
Sullivan
Miss Kinney
Fanny Weston
French
Ross
Gray
Steele
Shaw
Dan Malumby
The
Marshalls
Hamburg
Dailey
Bowdoin Square Theatre Presents Lost in New York
Bowdoin Square Theatre stock company impressed audiences with Lost in New York a strong melodrama of city life. Jennie wife and Martin Purcell gas meter man led by Charlotte Hunt Tommy Shearer. Hackensack George James Barrett Arthur Wilson Hal Brown. Frances McHenry and Florence Hale gave notable performances as Caroline Peabody and others. Moving picture display also drew applause.
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New York
Metropolis
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Washington
Jennie
Martin Purcell
Charlotte Hunt
Tommy Shearer
Hackensack George
James Barrett
Arthur Wilson
Hal Brown
Caroline Peabody
Frances McHenry
Florence Hale
Theatre Premier Holiday Show Delights Large Audiences
The Theatre Premier presents a banner holiday show with full houses at every performance. The program features Camera Phons in first honors with acts including imitations of Harry Lauder Julian Rose and scenes from the Corsican Brothers Sullivan and Maybe It's a Bear. A motion picture lineup includes C Q D Saved by Wireless and a strong comedy and patriotic songs.
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Harry Lauder
Julian Rose
Sullivan
Ben Greet Company Stages Midsummer Night's Dream in Boston
The Ben Greet company presented Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream in Boston with a 50 member cast and 50 musician orchestra conducted by Gustav Strube. Bottom by Ben Greet drew praise for rustic timing while George Vivian as Puck delivered skilled gymnastics. Mrs. Lou Wall danced Mendelssohn numbers and Grace Clark Rahler sang the notable solos.
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Ben Greet
Shakspere
Symphony Tall
Boston
Mendelssohn
Symphony
Gustav Strube
Bottom
George Vivian
Puck
Lou Wall
Grace Clark Rahler
Colonial Theatre ends Little Nemo in New England run
The Colonial Theatre in Boston ends its Little Nemo engagement next Saturday night after four weeks with strong audience support for the cast led by Master Gabriel and Joseph Cawthorn. Fritz Scheff will star at the Colonial for two weeks starting March 1 in The Prima Donna with a large credited cast and seats on sale from 8 this morning.
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Boston
New England
Little Nemo
Colonial Theatre
Tiny Master Gabriel
Joseph Cawthorn
Harry Kelly
Billy B. van
Esperrly
Elphye Snowden
Rose Beaumont
Dave Abrams
Collins and
Hart
Mabel Berra
Madelyn Marshall
Charles Dillingham
Fritz Scheff
Victor Herbert
James K. Sullivan
William Raymond
Donald Hall
William K. Harcourt
Martin Hayden
Phil Branson
Herbert Ayling
Armand Cortes
Blanche Morrison
Ruth Holt Boucicault
Katherine Fletcher
Josephine Bartlett
Renee Doris
la Noveta
Orpheum Theatre Weekly Bill Brims With Stars
The Orpheum Theatre features a strong lineup headlining Joe Welsh and William Courtleigh with Clarice Vance and the Heras acrobats. Acts include the Loew Lewin Martel duo with moving pictures, Casey and LeClair Celtic life sketches, the Georgia Campers, and a dog trio.
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Orpheum Theatre
Joe Welsh
William Courtleigh
Clarice Vance
Heras
Peaches
Courtleigh
Casey
LeClair
Loew-Lewin Martel
Georgia Campers
Wood
Janson
Goyt
General Tee
General Sherman
General Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Chopin Memorial Concert in Steinert Hall
Adamowski Trio with Mme Antoinette Szumowska performed in Steinert Hall to mark Chopin’s 100th birth anniversary. Proceeds funded a Chopin monument in Warsaw. Szumowska’s piano carried the program, solo pieces drew strong praise, and the event featured a reserved, sincere tone with a single encore after the monumental sonata.
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Steinert Hall
Chopin
Adamowski
Antoinette Szumowska
Timothee Adamowski
Joseph Adamowski
Warsaw
Poland
Mme. Szumowska
Schumann
Szumowska
Hub Theatre Rich Vaudeville Program This Week
The Hub Theatre presents W. G. Anderson and company in The Ballet Girl for the week. Watch trio performs singing and dancing and Lefevre and Bowen offer comedy burlesque. Miles Bros. move pictures and illustrated bal lads headline with new acts. Thursday brings a complete vaudeville change.
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Hub Theatre
Vaudevillians
W. G. Anderson and Company
Ballet Girl
Watch
Lefevre
Star Theatre to present bigger programme under new system
The Star Theatre shifts schedule three times weekly to benefit the public and management. The first show under the new plan was held yesterday and another change is due tomorrow. Patriotic songs and pictures featured yesterday.
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Star Theatre
Keith's Theatre Delights with High Class Vaudeville Bill
Holiday crowds flocked to Keith's Theatre as Blanche King of Boston led a strong program including Laddie Cliff, Hal Merritt, and a trio of playlets. The Dunedin Troupe bicycle act and a varied lineup of singers, jugglers, acrobats, and motion pictures thrilled the audience with a lively, tourney of acts and novelty acts.
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Keith's
Blanche King
Boston
Comedienne
Laddie Cliff
Hal Merritt
Harrison Armstrong
Robert B. Regends
Carlisle
Anna Blancke and Company
Robert Hilliard
Miss Blancke
the Kid
John Fenton
Old Guy
Toys
de Witt
Burns and Torrence
Kenney
McGahan
Platt
Sam Stern
Desire Sisters
Dunedin
le Roy
la Vanion
Smith
Smythe
Kimball
Lewis
Savo
Cuba
Land of the Midnight Sun
Thomas McKay
The Red Moon Opens at Globe Theatre with Cole and Johnson
Cole and Johnson headline a picturesque comedy at the Globe Theatre opening the second week of their engagement. The duo, famed as colored comedians and composers, headline a strong company with Cole as the lawyer they don't expect and Johnson as the doctor they don't expect. Johnson is a New England Conservatory alum with a baritone voice and piano skill. The show features song hits such as Keep on Smiling Ada Big Red Shawl and On the Road to Monteray.
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Cole
Johnson
Globe Theatre
New England Conservatory of Music
Ada
Monteray
Kitty Grey to Play Tremont Theatre This March
London musical comedy Kitty Grey will open at New Amsterdam Theatre and then play Tremont Theatre starting March 8 with star G. P. Huntley and Julia Sanderson in the cast. Huntley has starred at the Gaiety and the company will tour to New York and Boston before returning home.
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Kitty Grey
London
New York
New Amsterdam Theatre
Tremont Theatre
G. P. Huntley
Gaiety Theatre
Julia Sanderson
Atlantic
Boston
Strolling Players Delight at the Howard
The Strolling Players wow Western wheel crowds at the Howard with a continuous show led by Kathryn Pearl a winning leading lady. Notable acts include Margie Comboy as Peter Pan Sadie La Marr dancing favorites Ina Moulton in Dearie numbers and a lively burlesque with Church City Four A New Year s Eve.
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The
Howard
Kathryn Pearl
Margie Comboy
Sadie la Marr
Sam Lie
Grand Opera House Debuts Sold Into Slavery in Boston
The Grand Opera House presented Sold Into Slavery starring Aubrey Noyes as the old lover and Lyda Powell as the ingénue. The melodrama centers on a poor city girl fooled into a marriage with a wealthy scoundrel and thwarted by a counterfeiters plot.
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Methuselah
Aubrey Noyes
Lyda Powell
Battleship Utah Keel Laid at Camden Yard
The keel of the battleship Utah was laid at the New York Shipbuilding Company Camden yard. Utah will displace 21,387 tons and reach a speed of 21 knots. The ship, sister to the Florida, is built alongside the Brooklyn navy yard project.
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Philadelphia
Utah
Florida
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
Wreck Kills Eight, Wounds Twenty on Pennsylvania Express
Eight dead and twenty injured when the New York and Norfolk express struck an open switch near Delmar and crashed into two switching locomotives. Fire engulfed damaged cars. the pony of Princess Trixie was among the casualties. Names listed include Oliver Perry Adams Express and J. D. McCready baggage master.
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Norfolk
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York and Norfolk Express
Delmar
Del
Hampton Roads
Oliver Perry
Adams Express
Philadelphia
J. D. McCready
Wilmington
George Davis
W. T. Corkran
J. W., Wood
R. M. Davis
Wilhelm
Newcastle
Lewis Brockway
Pony of Princess Trixie Company
Roosevelt to Visit Missions in Africa
Bishop Hartzell, head of Methodist African missions, says President Roosevelt will visit several missions in Africa and deliver addresses abroad and on return. Hartzell spoke at the Methodist ministers’ meeting after meeting Roosevelt at the White House.
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Chicago
Africa
Roosevelt
Methodist Ministers
Joseph G. Hartzell
Methodist African Missions
White House
City Auditor Benjamin Magenis Dies at 43
Benjamin Magenis died in North Adams from a tuberculosis heart complication at age 43. He served three terms as city auditor and twice as assessor, with other city posts. He leaves brothers James P. Magenis of the Boston School Committee and Justice John F. Magenis of the Northern Berkshire District Court, plus a sister and mother.
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North Adams
Benjamin Magenis
Magenis
James P. Magenis
Boston School Committee
John F. Magenis
Northern Berkshire District Court
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