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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1910
Page
9
New plays including The Man From Home at the Park and Dick Whittington at the Majestic headline a busy schedule. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm appears at the Tremont with In Constant George playing at the Hollis as part of a slate of programs and bills.
The Park Theatre presents The Man From Home for its third season in Boston. William Hodge leads a strong cast with Henry Jewett and Madeline Louis, delivering a well finished melodrama praised for character work and careful staging despite not being a bold departure in drama.
The Colonial Theatre presents Mrs. Margaret Deland's Helena Richie in dramatic form with Margaret Anglin in the lead. The cast includes Eugene Ormonde John Findlay George Robert Charles Wyngate Sally Williams and Gertrude Swiggett. Stage design recreates 1860s Old Chester Penn and interiors as part of the adaptation. Seats go on sale at 8 this morning for the two week engagement.
The Bon Tons presented a new year offering at the Gaiety Theatre with lively, dashy vaudeville and two musical comedies. The Candy Show drew praise for humor and energy while acts by Rawson and Clare Gray and Graham Lake and Stevenson Kelly and Bartlett Berg sisters and eight English Dancing Dolls kept the bill moving.
The Tremont Theatre staged Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin. Edith Taliaferro led as Rebecca with Archie Boyd as Uncle Jeremiah Cobb and Marie L Day and Eliza Glassford as the aunts Miranda and Jane Sawyer. The production featured strong acting and fine stage settings and Wiggin attended to express thanks.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre presents The Angel of the Alley by Lothrop stock company with Charlotte Hunt Fred Van Rensselaer Harry Humphrey Edwin Denison Tommy Shearer. A continuous program from 1 to 10:80 features Shaws Mildred Elsa Bernard and Hill Ralph Daly with a moving picture display drawing large crowds.
The Theatre Comique presents Talking Pictures with The Rocky Road and Corsican Hospitality. Comedy pictures include A Lively Corpse Trials of a Schoolmaster and Tabby’s Finish. Gertrude Mann returns for vocal selections while Dave Marlowe debuts a new set of songs and Long brothers duet pieces. Marjorie Bray and Lillian Kelliher perform. The Roto Puzzle Pictures continue to amuse.
A full Scenic Temple program yesterday afternoon and evening entertained crowds for two and a half hours. Every number and the motion pictures were warmly received. New illustrated songs impressed, and Lenna Howe's Union Orchestra performed a brief pre show concert and supplied incidental music.
Boston audience welcomed John Drew in the title role of Inconstant George a three act comedy adapted by Gladys Unger from the French. The play features a flirt who juggles three loves and ends in a marriage while Mary Boland Desmond Kelley and others deliver strong performances. The production is praised for witty dialogue fast movement and handsome staging with plans to follow at Hollis with Israel by Henri Bernstein.
The Grand Opera House presents Miss Vivian Prescott as Sal the Circus Gal a clever orphan heiress tale. A villain schemes to claim a fortune but a young lawyer and a locket reveal the rightful heir audience applauds Prescott and her strong company.
A weekly program at Austin and Stone's Museum showcases unusual acts and high curiosity exhibits. Equinas draws crowds with a unique birthmark and long hair. Jack Wilson weighs 515 pounds and Annie Moore 647 pounds. Annie Fleiner is nearly seven feet tall. The vaudeville lineup includes Burton and Primrose Irish comedians, Ida Campbell singers, Cassie French dancers, the Von Serley sisters, Tom Bullock songs, and the Manhattan maids in burlesque.
Orr Lovett and company present The Soothsayer as the prime vaudeville feature at the Hub Theatre this week. Chunn and Craig offer a singing and comedy sketch with Raymond and Elliott joining for the first three days. Illustrated ballads and new moving pictures entertain audiences.
Denman Thompson revisits vaudeville with a 20 minute Joshua Whitcomb sketch at Keith's Theatre. Molly King and William O Keefe star as Tot and Roundy with supporting acts including Trovato the violinist, Smith and Campbell Camping Out, Lester with his talking dummy, Robedillo on the tight wire, Hayward and Hayward Holding Out, Maizie Lee and duo partners, Cowboy Williams the cannon ball fiend, and moving pictures conclude the program.
Eugene Walters play The Wolf runs its second week at the Globe Theatre with six characters praised for contrast and engaging action. Lew Dockstader and his minstrels, under James H. Decker, bring a plot driven entertainment with skits including Fighting the Flames and The Ruby and the Pearl. The Human Flag closes the program.
The Columbia Theatre presents The Follies of the Day directed by manager Harry Farren. The show features a buxom girl revue with gowns and a famed Dancing Brick-Tops ballet trio. Notables include Gertrude Hayes Mina Schail Ida Sturgis Larry McCale Harry Lester John Nason and West and Williams. On Wednesday night Neil Olson the Great Dane battles George Sandelle the Aggressive Greek.
Ruth St Denis began a series of matinees at the Colonial Theatre to perform five Hindu dances. She, previously little known in Boston, drew crowded houses and strong applause, prompting extended engagement through Saturday. Remaining matinees include Monday Tuesday Friday and Saturday afternoons.
The Boston Theatre hosts the second week of Bright Eyes, Joseph M Gaites new musical by the Three Twins authors. Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook win audience affection with charm and song. The music is catchy and the humor clean throughout the performance. An extra matinee is planned for Tuesday election day.
The New Palace Theatre showcases a record vaudeville bill with La Morte's dog cat and monkey circus as headliner. Smith and Edwards deliver clever singing and talking routines while George Whittle performs rope tricks. Farrell and Farrell sing and whistle with bird imitations. Florence Douglas entertains with singing and imitations. An angel and Bowditch offer a musical burlesque sketch. Films include A Slave to Drink Cupid and the Motor Boat The Chaperon’s Honeymoon and An Eventful Trip.
The Howard presents a lively weekly program headlined by Kentucky Belles with a merry-go-round of fun and spoof. Frank Graham Edith Randall and Blanche Curtiss headline a diverse bill featuring vaudeville acts, singings and athletic spots. The scene also touts the Johnson Burns and Jeffries Sharkey fight pictures in their final week.
Maude Odell stars at the American Music Hall with living color portraits and fitness demonstrations praising graceful form and intelligent performance. The program also features Fred Karno's comedy, Lester and Quinn singing and dancing, the Jackson family bicycle feats, Bertie Fowler's humor, Frank Byron and Louise Langdon in a skit, plus other acts and the Ameriscope lineup.
A full Opera House witnessed Loie Fuller and two European muses Gertrude Von Axen Irene Sanden perform a program of solo dances set to composers including Mendelssohn Beethoven and Schubert. The highlight was the ballet of light featuring Fuller and her muses ending with the white lily dance.
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Marie Dow Frost formerly of Reno and Quincy, a famed socialite, quietly married Hamilton Wilkes Cary, New York millionaire and widower, on New Year’s Day in New York. The ceremony remained undisclosed until yesterday.
The Castle Square Theatre presents 1915 for a second week to large audiences despite bad weather. The show features romance and tropical fantasy aboard an airship with a strong cast led by Mary Young and about 75 performers. Craig aims to make 1915 a season favorite, hoping to match the success of The Circus Girl which lasted nine weeks.
The Boston Post reports 1909 year averages of 248,563 on Sundays and 277,947 for daily editions, with December surges to 258,663 Sunday copies and 289,006 daily copies. The paper notes this as a phenomenal rise, with few peers nationally. It thanks readers and pledges continued public service.
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