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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1915
Page
8
A Lisbon city paper review notes Suzt A Bright Affair by Edward H. Crosby at the Majestic Theatre last evening under Lew Fields. The Hungarian musical comedy features a lively plot, bright music, engaging orchestration, and a strong cast with numerous pretty girls.
The review celebrates Suzi as the lead in a three act musical comedy set in Buda Pesth and Sorrento. Jose Collins stars with Robert Evett Melville Stewart Tom McNaughton Connie Ediss Fritzi von Busing and Arthur Lipgon praised for singing acting and comic timing. The piece is praised as clean wholesome and entertaining with memorable numbers including Tick-a-Tick.
Castle Square Theatre presents Common Clay with Mary Young delivering an artistic performance as the girl and Mr Craig praised as the judge. The ensemble earns hearty applause as they enter into the piece with spirited enthusiasm.
Yesterday at the Orpheum Theatre audiences enjoyed a varied programme. The Stage Struck Kids performed un in 2 Vaudeville Office, Mrs Louis James offered a playlet Holding a Husband, and Matt Keefe with Emilie Subhers presented The Minstrel Man and the Yodler. Madden and Clegg danced modern style while Merlin Dooley Joyce and Chizo performed juggling. The Explot of Elaine third episode The Vanishing Jewels added a feature, followed by the latest war news.
Mrs Tom Thumb returns to the stage heading the bill at the National Theatre with Nat Burgess managing. The program features Pendleton sisters Hercules troupe Lee's Mannikins and an all new picture slate including The Devil's Eye. A complete change of programme on Thursday and a concert on Sunday evening.
Tremont Temple last evening hosted a large audience for its return engagement of Les Miserables. The production, featuring a company of French stars, faithfully renders Victor Hugo's tale in nine reels across two and a half hours, letting viewers live with Jean Valjean rather than the film itself.
St George and the Dragon and a Spanish Gypsy pageant lit the Cop ley Society Twelfth Night revels drawing about 500 in peasant costumes. Notables in foreign dress, a pine tree stage set, electric lights, and a 15 foot dragon highlighted the show with sequined gypsy dances and a burlesque weather sketch.
At Hollis Street Theatre last evening the trio of William Gillette Blanche Bates and Marie Dora drew strong greetings for Frohman’s Diplomacy. Dora shines as Dora the ingenue while the entire cast elevates the production with notable artistry appreciated by audiences.
The Wilbur Theatre hosts the third week of A Pair of Sixes with brisk interest and nightly laughter. Star cast Frank McIntyre Sam B Hardy Fritz Williams Oza Waldrop Maude Eburne deliver clear humor and polish. the production is praised for cleanliness and lack of inappropriate lines.
The last week of The Midnight Girl ends its run at the Shubert Theatre with George Macfarlane and Margaret Romaine in leading roles. Encores in the final act honor Macfarlane as the audience demands more ballads. The cast also includes William Pruette George Schiller Denman Maley Teddy Webb Marie Flynn Harry Delf and Zella Call. Next week Emma Trentini stars in The Peasant Girl with Clifton Crawford as chief comedian. Seats go on sale Thursday morning.
An all star program at Gordon's Olympia yesterday featured The Garden of Mirth a 14 person musical comedy. Rhoda and Crampton were popular in Between the Reels along with Prince Kar Mi and company Jamie Kelley Carson brothers Dancing Boyds and Longweed sisters The Master Key and Surgeon Warren's Ward also shown with Hearst Selig Weekly and other photoplays.
At Franklin Park Theatre corner Blue Hill avenue and Columbia road an unusual programme opens with The Four Melodious Chaps followed by Bassalri Fields and La Adalia and the Morton brothers. The Rose of the Rancho stars Bessie Barriscale with Frances Starr origin tale. The Bargain headlines the final matinees and evenings begin at 2 30 and 8 16.
The Henry Jewett Players presented Romeo and Juliet at the Boston Opera House last night in a more artistically advanced production than their prior Shaksperian effort. The vast auditorium was filled with an audience that repeatedly showed its pleasure.
Low prices for seats contrast with rich costumes and scenery from the Boston Opera Company. The cast, trained in top English traditions, delivers refined acting and melodious voices in a dignified revival of Shakespeare. Highlights include Viva Birkett as Juliet and George Relph as Romeo in a polished production.
The Cort Theatre opens its final Boston week with Peg O My Heart drawing one of the season’s largest Monday night crowds. Florence Martin leads the company in a sparkling Anglo Irish comedy that may extend its run beyond the nine teen weeks, as advance sales outpace prior weeks.
Keith's Bijou audience welcomed Crawford Adams the violinist back after a two year absence. The program included Margaret Millen Henry soprano Amelia Conti Berenguer harp Manuel Berenguer flute Florence LeMoyne contralto Frances Bean cornet Lena Bonelli soprano. A new photo play program accompanied by a second week of Gertie the cartoon by Winsor McCay.
At the Modern Theatre yesterday the feature Samson starring William Farnum drew absorbing interest. The tale follows Maurice Brachard a former dock laborer who rises to wealth, wrecks his friends, and destroys those who wrong his wife. The program also showed The Master Key installment and a Pathe Weekly alongside short comedies and dramas.
A lively burlesque show by City Belles runs this week at the Grand Opera House with Sam Green Charley Brown Mae Alberta and Mae Brown in key parts. The 26 member chorus and acts by Golden Clark and Kindler the whistling wizard are highlighted. A wrestling match Isando Bey versus Franz Hockman is planned Thursday with Friday featuring circus and amateur acts. A Sunday concert closes the week.
Emma Carus headlines with Carl Randall in a lively Boston program praised for Irish songs The Filipino Dance and old and new dances Hughie Jennings of the Detroit Tigers appears in The New Mascot a singing and comedy skit with Ben Smith The act includes Pavlova imitation and a crowd pleasing finale The bill also features Mme Stone Dorée Imperial Opera Company the Eva Tanguay trapeze act and Pathe Weekly war pictures
Tremont Theatre in Boston hosts the third week of Sev en Keys to Baldpate with George Par sons as the ambitious novelist visiting a winter resort to write a thriller in 24 hours. The cast includes Edgar Halstead Jessie Graham Parnell B Pratt Inez Buck Lorena Atwood Joseph Allen Jeanette Horton Roy Fairchild Martin L Alsop Claude Brooke Carleton Macy and John C King.
Manager Wright announces Cyril Maude will depart the Plymouth Theatre on Saturday night January 23 ending his American tour. Boston audiences have had longer engagement than planned and this marks the final two weeks of his run in the delightful play Grumpy.
The Colonial Theatre closed the sixth and final week of The Girl from Utah with Miss Sanderson and Mr. Brian in prominent dancing roles. Joseph Cawthorn entertained with comedy as a large cast and chorus performed melodious songs, while Hazel Dawn in The Debutante will begin January 18 with seats on sale this morning.
The Boston Theatre launches Klaw and Erlanger’s World’s Fair staging of Ben Hur with a full dress rehearsal overseen by Joseph Brooks. The production, priced at one dollar for top seats, aims to draw broad audiences to a historic American spectacle featuring General Wallace’s epic.
The Toy Theatre presentation features Across the Border as the principal attraction. Last evening two other pieces appeared: A Morning of Sunshine translated into English by Mrs Lucretia Xavier Floyd who starred with Robert S Sturgis assisting. A pantomime The Willow Pattern Plate based on a Chinese legend was performed by a company of a dozen or more in lavish staging.
Florence Reed debuts as a photoplay artist at the Park in The Dancing Girl a five part adaptation of Sir Henry Arthur Jones drama. Reed plays Drusilla the Quaker dancing girl and London Bohemia belle with a range of emotional acting. Mile Erminda Ferrery Blanchart solos head the musical program. Blanchart, daughter of Ramon Blanchart, Boston Opera principal, appears with the Park Symphony Orchestra and organ recitals. Fred eric Judson ttler baritone also delivers solos.
Rabbit Maranville spoke at the Howard about his entry into baseball and his father’s initial opposition. He recalled his father’s resistance, his persistence to play, and the moment his father first saw him perform at South End park on Maranville Day, after which he became a baseball enthusiast.
Hall hero Rabbit Maranville headlined a vaudeville program at the Howard Atheneum yesterday with a monologue How I Broke Into Baseball detailing his Boston Braves start and family support. The show featured Eddie Machugh, Girls From Joyland, Frank Wakefield impersonations, and acts by Maise L Estrange Rene Cooper and others with a week long engagement.
The Loew's Globe Theatre presented an all-star vaudeville show yesterday led by Jimmy Britt ex lightweight champion with an up to date monologue. Also featured were William A Weston and company in Attorneys Busses' dogs Henry and Lyselle and the Taise brothers plus the third episode of Exploits of Elaine The Vanishing Jewels. Latest war news was also shown.
Irvin Cobb, noted journalist and war correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, will give an illustrated talk at Tremont Temple next Saturday afternoon and night. An exhibition of unreleased war scene pictures will accompany the program, followed by a Q A session with Cobb answering audience questions.
Lew Kelly stars as Professor Dope at the Gaiety Theatre for the week. He greets crowds warmly but critics note audiences did not receive all they hoped. The large company includes Vincent Mack Corrine Ford Lon Haseall Jim Tenbrooke Ameta Pynes Jean Irwin Harry Van and Martelle, noted as a leading female impersonator.
Hardeen, brother of Houdini, performs escapes and brick-wall walks at Bowdoin Square Theatre. Jacob P. Adler stars in Michael Strogoff with vivid Moscow and Tartars scenes. The program includes The Master Key, The Bomb, vaudeville by Herbert and the Mennards, humor from Harry Montgomery, and musical acts by De Stafano brothers and others. Friday promises circus, amateurs, and a cabaret with 15 acts.
The St James patrons enjoyed an all star bill headlined by Harold Crane and his company in Justice. Beth Challis B Kelly Force the Weiss troupe and Edmunds and Basil also appeared. The Exployts of Elaine The Vanishing Jewels played as the third episode. War news was shown.
Scollay Square Olympia presents high class vaudeville and photoplays this week featuring Kenny and Boyle Four Comrades Julia Rooney Walter Fowler and Bar ret in The Common Soldier Newsboy s sextette and Five Musical Byrons A select list of photoplays includes At the End of the Bridge Comrade Kitty two reel feature and other comedy and drama numbers.
Natick resident crowds praised Eddie Mahan, Harvard football captain for 1915, as he received a landmark tribute at Natick’s monster banquet. The Crimson and Blue standout, noted for last November’s clash, was lauded by Harvard peers and the football world alike for his prowess and leadership.
A large Natick crowd celebrated Harvard football captain Eddie Mahan with a town hall banquet. Harvard coaches players and Boston Red Sox figures attended as Mahan spoke briefly, praising team unity and esprit de corps.
Hughie Jennings predicts baseballs toughest year ahead as Federal league outlook fades. He cites rising costs for clubs, salaries, grandstands, and travel while naming Chicago and Washington as strong contenders and noting Eddie Collins and Nap Lajoie changes. He jokes about vaudeville acts as he exits.
New Haven January 11 Walter Camp has resigned from the general Yale athletic committee in line with policy from last fall when he retired as treasurer of the Yale Financial Union He had served as the football representative on the committee since its present form three years ago under rule the team captains nominate an alumnus for the post He was the football member on the committee each year.
Captain Aleck Wilson designates Robert C. Corwin as alumni representative on Yale’s general athletic committee, elevating the German School professor and former captain of the 1897 eleven who beat Harvard 29 to 4. The move accompanies a broader athletics restructuring as Yale plans future plans and Roy Camp contemplates full retirement from boards while remaining football strategist coach.
Waldron’s Casino welcomed the Honeymoon Girls in a lively show titled The Man the Girl and the Widow. Phil Ott led the act with Miss Alice Lazar and a cast including Nellie Nelson Norma Bell James Rowland Saul Powder Jack Hart Bert Capmann. Food and dance specialties drew large crowds.
Brookline High School defeated Rindge Tech 3 to 2 in a late decisive goal. Arthur scored in the final minute on a long shot. Captain Dan Kelley and Tubber White starred for Cambridge.
Willie Ritchie former lightweight champion accepts challenge to face titleholder Freddie Welsh in a 10 round no decision bout to be held at Madison Square Garden New York City. The San Francisco report notes the offer was accepted today.
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