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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1918
Page
6
Hollis Street Theatre enters its second week of Hamilton with George Arliss in the title role as audiences in Boston show strong enthusiasm. Critics praise Arliss and supporting cast, noting broad appeal to both history buffs and general theatergoers.
Edward H. Crosby reports William Gillette brings a Boston season appearance in a piece titled A Successful Calamity with Claire Kummer producing. The show, described as melodramatic farce rather than pure comedy, features a light first act and a melodramatic second act, and seeks a Boston verdict at the Wilbur theater.
A wealthy broker feigns ruin to curb his family’s social whirl. The ruse sparks a comic but perilous second act as jewels vanish and a raid unfolds. Gillette as the tired businessman and Louise Rutter as the wife command strong stage presence in a lively, amusive domestic farce.
War era intrigue melodrama opens a new week at Copley Theatre with capacity crowds. The Henry Jewett players deliver strong performances in this acclaimed production.
Dr Leonard S Sugden concludes a three week run at Tremont Temple presenting graphic recitals of northern possessions with natural color films. The program features ice caves Alaskan scenes Indian customs gold miners and White Horse Rapids thrill scenes.
Capacity audiences packed B F Keith's Theatre yesterday as Blanche Ring headlined a varied program. Willie White accompanied on piano as Ring delivered a lively, well voiced set featuring War Ballads and Atta' Boy' Corigan alongside Melo Meyer numbers and Deiro on the piano accordion. The show included Austin Webb and company Hit the Trail and De Leon and Davies Behind the Front with bright comedy from other acts and the Four Kings wire artistry.
The Tremont Theatre closes the long engagement of the Smith Mapes play Boom erang this week after universal praise for its romantic yet natural story. Principals Arthur Byron Wallace Eddinger Martha Hedman and Ruth Shepley lead the cast. Next comes Mrs Fiske in Mme Sand.
The Plymouth Theatre hosts the melodrama The Man Who Came Back after a move from the Wilbur Theatre. Henry Hull stars as the returned young man, Laura Walker remains the reforming influence, and William Masson portrays the father with solid supporting performances.
The Olympia program this week features Madame Petrova in The Light Within showing her talent for portraying human emotions. Also on view are U S war pictures, Billy West in a new comedy, and Taylor Granville's A Romance of the Prize Ring with a large cast. The Olympia News Weekly finishes a well rounded bill.
The Warrior Ma ciste the Italian giant stars in the Scollay Square Olympia program as the action centers on his strength against Austrian mountains. War pictures from the United States government attract interest with torpedo boat scenes. A Billy West comedy closes the vaudeville alongside illusions by Carl Rosini and company and acts by Chapelle Tribble Nana Alexis Sheehan Chester Ishakawa troupe and the Olympia News Weekly.
The Castle Square in Boston begins a week of vaudeville style pictures and music with Mabel Taliaferro in Draft 258 and William Russell in The Midnight Trail. Hearst-Pathe News and travelogues receive praise as Jarvis Jocelyn leads patriotic songs and dances. The German Curse in Russia debuts Thursday while Irene Castle stars in Convict 993. A new tea room attracts ladies to the venue.
The Rainbow Girl a three act musical comedy played at the Colonial Theatre last night, derived from Jerome K. Jerome's Fanny and the Servant Problem and a farce The New Lady Bantock. Rennold Wolf rewrote it keeping some servant girl jokes and added light music by Louis A. Hirsch known for Grass Widow and Follies.
Actress Mollie Bennett flees England for America and weds Lord Wetherell unaware of his identity. As Lady Wetherell she finds her staff are kin, creating friction until her stage manager returns to set things right. Cast features Beth Lydy Harry Benham and Sidney Greenstreet with lively music and dances.
Octavia Handworth tours with her company in Salvation Sue as a Salvation Army lassie headlining at Loew's St. James Theatre. The bill also features Bell and Caron acrobatics and comedy, McCormack and Irving, Duncan and Holt, Magee and Anita, News Pictorial, a comedy, The Knife with Alice Brady, and a Lincoln study episode with Nat Carr next week and Brown of Harvard.
Willie Solar led the bill at the Orpheum Theatre with a singular yet effective act. The program featured Leila Shaw and company in The Truthful Liar Walton and Gilmore in Musical Comedy a la Carte Minnie Harrison songs of the South and Ryan and Ryan in eccentric songs and dances the Nettie Carroll troupe of wire walkers and Edith Storey in The Legion of Death on screen. The entire bill changes Thursday with Kittie Francis and company in Mrs O Malleys Reception as the new leading act.
Boston Theatre screens a narrative film by Mary MacLane recounting six romantic episodes from her life. The bill also features Ernest Evans and girls vaudeville, Ragtime Dining Car, Wellington Sylvia, Fred Webber and Company, Elsie White, a film comedy, and newsreels.
British star Miss Caprice headlines Lancaster Theatre this week in The Heart of Romance alongside The Price Mark with Dorothy Dalton. The program also includes a comedy and newsreels. Thursday brings The Impostor starring Ann Murdock and Flirting With Fate starring Douglas Fairbanks.
The Howard Atheneum featured the Lady Buccaneers led by Flossie McCloud with Freddy Hackett Bert Bertrand and a strong cast including Elwood Benton Mae Clark Frank Hansom Wilma White Phil Foster Knott Long Mabel McCloud and Billie Bernard. Mermaida and her water queens performed a diving act and costumes earned praise. The night also offered a vaudeville lineup headlined by the Duffin Red Cay Troupe Wilbur Held Biss and Gagne and others.
The famous burlesque group The Twentieth Century Maids perform at Waldron's Casino for a week led by Jim Barton. The cast features Bob Ferns Vera Rossmore Jacqualine Tallman Juliette Tillie Barton and others with a large chorus. Musical numbers dancing and clean comedy highlight the show titled O. K. K. O. with book and lyrics by Abe Leavitt.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presented The Christian starring Earle Williams and Edith Storey in seven reels, a strong love story. Also shown were The Snarl with Bessie Barriscale, Pathe News, Vengeance and the Women, The Rough House with Fatty Arbuckle, and vaudeville acts. Amateur night Thursday and bargain features Friday. Next week annette Kellerman in A Daughter of the Gods. Parking arranged at a nearby garage.
Park Theatre presents Edith Storey in Revenge a tale of a young woman seeking vengeance after her fiance is murdered in a mining town. Fannie Ward stars in Innocent a story of the Orient and Paris's lure shaping a girl raised in China. Sidney Drew comedy Pathe Weekly and Vera De Bassini offerings also shown with the Park Symphony Orchestra conducted by William A. Krauth.
This week at Huntington Avenue Theatre Sonia Markova stars in A Heart's Revenge and Taylor Holmes in A Small Town Guy. Alma Rubens appears in I Love You with William S Hart in Double Crossed on Friday and Saturday. Pathe News runs the last four days weekly with Friday change. Christie comedy shown Saturday for kids.
An unusually good program at Franklin Park Theatre features The Heart of a Lion with William Farnum as hero The comedy An International Sneak and vaudeville by Lawton jugglers George Leonard and company and Mr and Mrs C Phillips. Later Francis H Bushman and Beverly Bayne appear in Under Suspicion with changes to vaudeville acts.
Le Baron presents The Very Idea at the Shubert with Eugenics as the core. The weighty subject risks offense yet Amusing and guarded handling earns popular approval despite unresolved conclusions.
The play centers on a childless couple who plan to adopt but are entangled by a brother who selects a couple for the infant’s substitute. The chauffeur and maid are chosen due to their love, and the plan unfolds with the mother forming attachment to the child. Ernest Truex, Richard Bennett, William P. Carleton star with Florence Oakley and others in a clever, dialogue rich production.
Maude Fulton remains in the title role at the Majestic Theatre in The Brat. The engagement grows more successful as the author actress revisits the city. A strong plot and a carefully selected company showcase artistic characterizations.
Two major film luminaries dim their glow at the Modern Theatre this week. Douglas Fairbanks stars in Headin South with hair raising adventures, while Mae Marsh appears in The Beloved Traitor set on the Maine coast. The program also features short comedies and News Pictures.
The Beacon Theatre shows two first run photoplays throughout the week headlined by Douglas Fairbanks as a cowboy adventurer in Headin South and Mae Marsh as a fisherman's daughter beloved by a sculptor. Short comedies and News Pictures round out the bill.
Potash and Perlmutter revive their famous duo at Park Square Theatre in a limited engagement. Jules Jordan as Potash and Charles Lipson as Perlmutter lead a capable cast including Pearl Sindelar Jennie Moscowitz Jean Grey and Belle Mitchell shaping a warmly received revival first in Boston last season.
The Roseland Girls at the Gayety Theatre deliver a polished show with elaborate costumes and a strong chorus. Sally Ward as Herman Sousebuilder twice changes whiskers and fourteen costumes, driving laughs with each alteration. The first part features Harry Coleman in a clever down-and-out tragedian sketch, while the trio Hunter, Chick and Hunter perform a popular number. Female leads include Elsie Bostel, Stella Wood, Esther Delaur, and Evelyn Burnet.
Wallace Reid stars in Rimrock Jones Vivian Martin performs A Petticoat Pilot Enid Bennett shows Keys of the Righteous Clara Kimball Young headlines The Marionettes Pathe News added at each showing Two changes weekly at the Exeter Street Theatre
Promotion claims a product named Freezone makes corns painless in moments. It advertises applying a drop to the corn, which supposedly stops pain and allows lifting the corn off with fingers. No verifiable evidence or cautions are provided.
A drug store tiny bottle of Freezone claims to rid feet of hard and soft corns and toe corn as well as calluses without irritation or pain. It’s touted as a remarkable Cincinnati discovery.
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