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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1908
Page
9
Eddie Foy stars in The Orchid at the Majestic with Flavia Arcaro and Rose Botti in a lively musical and comic program. The show blends bright music and humorous routines, drawing strong fanfare in Boston.
Howell Hansel and Boston Conservatory pupils staged The Senator at Castle Square Theatre yesterday. It marked the third show this season with the cast displaying ease and confidence beyond many amateurs. Hansel as Hannibal Rivers delivered his usual polished performance to a large enthusiastic audience.
Advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for women's illnesses. It claims eight decades of use, treating inflammation, ulceration, spinal weakness, irregularities, digestive issues, and nervous debility, with purported energy to dissolve early tumors. It urges women to avoid substitutes and to seek this remedy for full recovery.
The Globe Theatre stages The Volunteer Organist a four act pastoral tale with strong moral themes. Richard Sherman leads as How ard Sturgis supported by Frederick Montague as Tom Sturgis Pauline Eckhart Grace Barrett and others provide comedy and heart warming performances. The church midnight scene plus hymns sung by young sopranos add to a well mounted production. Next week the Vanderbilt Cup racing drama will follow.
The Columbia Theatre hosted mixed in a muddle and the house of too much trouble burlettas by the Champagne Girls last evening. Kenney and Hollis drew strong crowds with a testimonial, Eleanor Revere and Mae Yuh wowed the audience, and LaDent Frank and Maria Milton along with Loro and Payne entertained. The Champagne Girls also brought a skilled basketball team, and tomorrow brings Cazeaux the French heavyweight champion facing Yankee Rogers.
A Na tional Lancers delegation attended the Boston Theatre performance enhancing the audience mood. Wilson Melrose delivered standout vocal moments in So Long while the stock company showed strong light comedy in the show. Next Monday the troupe presents The Village Postmaster.
The Man of the Hour at the Tremont Theatre nears its 50th local performance with a March 3 date and a commemorative memento album for ladies. Capacity crowds persist, finances improve, and seats sell rapidly as the Boston run continues with an onstage orchestra.
The Players under Messrs Miller and Carruthers begin the first full week at Castle Square Theatre with The Cowboy and the Lady. The new company earns praise as the best in years with strong turns by Miller and Alfreda Lasche. For the week of March 2 The Climbers is announced.
The Russell brothers star in a new play by Charles Blaney at the Grand Opera House this week. The crowd applauded last night as the duo outwit a villain seeking a fortune left to a department store girl in New York. James and John Russell perform multiple disguises with strong support from Flora Russell Annie Russell and others. Next week vaudeville duo Genaro and Bailey bring Tony the Bootblack to the stage.
Orpheum Theatre presents two acts this week The Futurity Winner a vivid racing tale with a staged horse race and fist fight plus Gennaro's Gondolier Band a versatile leader with a 25 piece ensemble Venice by night scene Kita Banza Japanese top spinners Griff the English clown and Willie Weston with songs and imitations also featured Manuel Romaine and company Down Music Publishers Row Anne and Effie Conley sultry sisters and Ollie Young and brothers hoop act complete a varied program
A La Belle Rosa revival at Austin and Stone’s Museum features the oriental production In Old Constantinople with Rosa performing a famed whirlwind dance rotating up to 150 revolutions per minute. The encampment scene recreates the Turkish capital streets with local performers, alongside Hindoo Hooper and other acts. The Manhat tan Girls’ show, offices of a theatrical manager, Lemon sisters, Ade lina Patti, and several acts including Della Ames, Vesta Gilbert, Olive sisters, and Cecil Gray, plus moving pictures, complete the varied program the audience enjoyed.
The fourth and final Miss Terry chamber concert at Hotel Somerset featured pianist Miss Katherine Goodson performing the Kinderscenen in a welcome program. Her Schubert Fantasie and Chopin studies drew praise for virtuosic technique and poetic insight, while Brahms Rhapsodie and Holbrooke Etude offered mixed reception.
A full crowds fill Hollis Street Theatre as Rogers Brothers in Panama opens. The light vaudeville comedy features Marion Stanley Avita Sanchez and the Hengier sisters with a strong supporting cast including Dick Temple George Lydecker Joseph Doe and Walter Ware.
Bowdoin Square Theatre hosted A Raggee Hero, a tale of a wayward son who murders his father and frames his step-brother. Arthur Maitland as Willie Wildflower drew notice, with strong support from Jane Stuart and the stock company.
The Lyceum Theatre opened Robie's Knickerbocker Burlesquers with two new burlesques featuring lavish costumes scenery and music. A 20 strong chorus of young women performs intricate drills. Notable acts include the Christy vaudeville juggler and a comedy lineup headed by Reid and Gilbert Elliott and Neff Jennings and Jewell Fannie Wood Louise Willis and Clyde Darrow.
Hub Theatre showcased Miles brothers talking pictures yesterday with a Broadway favorite performing Down Where the Wurtzburger Flows. May White led songs with strong performances alongside Farrington Hazey delivering new ballads. Ladies' orchestra provided instrumental and incidental music to complete the bill.
The Taft joke competition ends tomorrow at the Hollis Street Theatre. Jokes must relate to Taft and the canal trip and can be mailed or handed in by Wednesday’s curtain. The Rogers brothers will review and award a theatre box for two to the winner for next Friday’s show.
The Theatre Premier presents a strong bill headlined by A Hold Up in Calabria with The Count of No Account and Our New Servant providing laughs. Signor di Fonti brings afternoon singing, while a star lineup including Madeline Ripley May Vincent Katherine Emmett and others earns applause. Musical direction by Mileva Emerson, assisted by Ruth Wilmers and Bessie Beasley, features impersonations by Loud and Ramsdell.
The piece extols reliable family health products, highlighting an ethical remedy approved by physicians. It promotes the genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna by the California Fig Syrup Co as a widely accepted, wholesome laxative available through leading druggists.
Elsie Janis opens another Park Theatre week with The Hayden. Her youthful charm and lively imitations highlight a musical comedy with a clear plot. Joel Cawthorn and the supporting company share the honors as audiences foresee popular remaining performances.
Palace Theatre features Rice and Barton burlesque troupe with Broadway After 12 and The Red Light District. Charles Barton leads a clever cast including Bert Baker Mildred Gilmore Pierce and Maizee as well as the Nicodemus trio. Palacescope films augment a lively varied program drawing crowded houses.
Theatre Comique reoffers the colonial tale The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere as feature number on the strong bill. Other offerings include scenes from The French Revolution and a comedy Any Barrels to Sell. Featured songs include Im Growing Fond of You and My Gal Sal with new vocalists Lillian Lord and others.
Keith's presents two contrasting sketches A Dakota Widow and We Need the Money with Minnie Seligman and Ruth Allen leading, plus a starred cast including William Bramwell Blanche Holt Charles Kenyon Grace Van Studdiford Mayme Remington and Clifton Crawford. Musical numbers dancing juggling and broad acts complete the program along with moving pictures and Keith Orchestra.
The Scenic Temple at Berkeley Street and Warren Avenue drew heavy crowds yesterday for a Saturday holiday, with carriages and autos again delivering patrons. The program includes new moving pictures, illustrated songs with dissolving views, a skilled instrumentalist, a lady vocalist, singing comedians, sidewalk conversationalists, and others, backed by a full orchestra.
Lilla Brennan headlined the Howard Atheneum in her first home city appearance to enthusiastic applause. Mile J. Kelly provided Irish humor while a strong vaudeville lineup featured Gertrude Fiske, Ziska and King, Lizzie B Raymond, and the Musical Russells among others. The program combined burlesque sketches, musical acts, comedy, and Howardscope pictures to overall acclaim.
Lyman H Howe presents a Tremont Temple program featuring a 150000 ton cliff blast from 1800 pounds of dynamite. An eight week tunnel was sealed with cement to embed the charge in Cherbourg quarries France. The program also includes an 8 mph auto endurance ride and Holland life studies among other scenes.
The theatre offers one of its strongest shows with Laugh and the world laughs with you this week. Also on the bill are Satan's Little Jaunt Unlucky Old Flirt Pierrot's Jealousy and Drunkenness and A Student's Ransom all new to this city. The patriotic pictorial ballads with motion picture effects are in their second and final week. Incidental music and impersonation receive high praise.
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