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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1918
Page
10
The Colonial Theatre opened Riviera Girl with the new early closing law in effect. Patrons arrived promptly near 8 pm, curtain rose ahead of schedule, and the audience responded with several encores, some questionable but the rule likely to hold in the future.
Wilda Bennett stars in The Riviera Girl a Monte Carlo set musical romance where Sylva Vareska loves a count’s son who plots to wed a titled man to gain family status. The cast includes Carl Gantvoort Sam Hardy Juliette Day and Marjorie Bentley with a two week engagement before Hitchcock’s Hitchey Koo.
The Park Theatre week features Theda Bara in Du Barry as a blond leading role. Emily Stevens appears in Daybreak with strong performance. Sidney Drew couple returns with new comedy and Pathe Weekly presents boys over there. Dora Greenberg returns with her soprano voice. Park Symphony Orchestra conducted by William A Krauth performs a pleasing overture.
The Modern Theatre showed Sylvia of the Secret Service starring Mrs Vernon Castle as a female U S Secret Service operative pursuing a band of diamond thieves. Also shown Spirit of 17 with Jack Pickford as a courageous youth, plus a comedy and newsreels.
The Tremont Temple opened the fourth and final week of Prizma color photography showcasing nature’s true effects. It added an alligator hunt to its program after delighting 1200 Boy Scouts last Friday. Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan appears for a matinee on January 26.
Exeter Street Theatre presents Charles Ray in His Mother's Boy and Alice Brady in Her Silent Sacrifice. Marguerite Clark stars in The Seven Wise Women, with Charles Richmond in Over There. Pathe news reels accompany each performance.
Henry Jewett Players staged Sheridan’s The Rivals at the Copley last night with strong ensemble work. Beatrice Miller as Mrs Malaprop and Jessamine Newcomb as Julia led a talented cast including Viola Roach Lydia Languish Leonard Craske Captain Absolute and Fred Permain Sir Anthony. Special scenery recalled the old Boston Museum stock days. The engagement runs for a week before Inside the Lines opens.
Bayard Veiller's mystery melodrama The Thirteenth Chair keeps audiences tense with a double murder plot. Margaret Wycherly delivers a moving portrait of Rosalie La Grange the old spiritualistic medium as a cast of characters including Harrison Hunter Esther Cornell William David Martha Mayo Harry West and others perform on stage.
For three weeks The Boomerang has filled Tremont Theatre with audiences and last night’s fourth week opening drew large rushes. The comedy is praised as one of the neatest love plays seen recently with amusing situations and bright lines. The original Belasco company remains, and the four leading performers from New York are still favorites at the Tremont.
The Majestic Theatre began the second week of its limited engagement with Mother Carey's Chickens a delightful comedy of New England home life set in Beulah New Hampshire. Lead actress Antoinette Walker heads a strong cast including Adelaide Keim Allan Murnane Helen Marqua Robert Gleckler Ursula Ellsworth Lorin Baker Helen Francis Stuart Fox Evelyn Eaton and Wilson Reynolds.
At the Wilbur the first act curtain for The Man Who Came Back will rise fifteen minutes before the hour during the Boston engagement. The play is in its fourth week with signs of a long run. Henry Hull fulfills the title role with strong emotional demand and is supported by a capable cast.
William Hart stars in The Silent Man at Bowdoin Square Theatre praised as a thrilling Western with a woven love story. Edna May in Salvation Joan. Vengeance and The Woman continues. Triangle comedies amuse. Ben Turpin Slim Summerville in Roping Her Romeo. Vaudeville features World and Towle etc. Next week Geraldine Farrar in The Devil-Stone.
D W Griffiths photoplay Intolerance fills Globe Theatre for a second week with large attendance at afternoon and evening shows. The epic spectacle offers a sprawling plot and vivid episodes, highlighting enduring human nature and modern photographic marvels.
England's leading poet John Masefield appears at Tremont Temple Monday evening. He is hailed as the foremost English poet and has recently produced a new war-themed work titled The Battle of the Somme.
Vaudeville at B F Keiths features Keiths Theatre Valeska Suratt in The Purple Poppy her first silent drama venture with Paul Potter and C V De Vonde. Keane Duffy and Inglis as The Music Masters entertain with quips songs and duets.
William Collier stars in Nothing But the Truth at Plymouth Theatre for the third week. The humor centers on a wager to speak only the truth for 24 hours. The performance runs from 7:45 to about 10:10 with a full house.
The second and final week of What’s Your Husband Doing opened at the Shubert Theatre last evening. Hale Hamilton and Jed Prouty star as divorce attorneys Widgast and Pidgeton with Gretchen Yates and Charlotte Ives as their wives. The run ends soon as audiences applaud bright snappy comedy. Lioner Barrymore will follow with The Copperhead.
Castle Square audiences watched Blue Jeans with Viola Dana and a buzz saw rescue scene, plus Taylor Holmes in Fools for Luck. Cast led by Arthur Hadley and Lora May Lamport under Jarvis Jocelyn. other features include Rusticating and Lincoln Parker travelogue. Tea room draws crowds as two films run Thursday noon through week with Edwin Arden and Tyrone Power films also on bill.
The theatre hosts Gordon's Olympia Alimony a revealing backstage style drama about modern divorces with a wholesome thread of romance. Madame Alita the Egyptian mind reader features prominently as part of the evening program. The venue closes at 7 PM and various acts including Billy West Eddie and Lottie Ford Termini and Sauls and others enrich the bill.
Scollay Square Olympia shows Pay Me this week for fans of clean fighting and light entertainment. The program includes The Italian Battlefront Part II, Billy West comedy, vaudeville acts, and several other feature pictures. The venue will close at 10 o'clock per fuel administration guidance.
The Lancaster Theatre showed The Kingdom of Love featuring Jewel Carmen and Diamonds and Pearls with Kitty Gordon, both first shown in Boston. Thursday's program will add Between Men starring William H. Hart and The Calendar Girl starring Juliet Day.
The Gayety presents Hip Hip Hurrah Girls led by Ben Pierce from Dorchester with supporting acts Billy Weston Perrin Somers Frank Peck Ed Jordan Kitty Madison Tillie Somers and Helen Vreeland. A three-number olio follows and the show closes with the musical farce Triple Beds in a country hotel mixup.
The Fenway Theatre shows Mae Marsh in Cinderella Man and Harry Morey in His Own People this week. The programs run through tomorrow night, then Marguerite Clark appears in The Seven Swans and The Strong Way with June Elvidge for the latter half of the week.
At the Park Square Theatre last evening the drama Success by Adeline Leitzbach and Theodore A Liebler Jr. received its city premiere. Barry Carlton, a rising actor, announces engagement to Jane Arlington but learns of her alleged impropriety leading to doubts, marriage, and a descent into unraveling reputation and ruin.
More than twenty years later the theatre presents a Lear revival managed by Mike Lewis for Rose Randolph the young actress who will marry Gilbert Gordon. Barry Carlton reveals the plot as the long estranged father and saves the performance. The cast features Helen Holmes Marion Coakley Jess Dandy and George Leffingwell among others with strong notes of comedy and pathos and a praise for Tynan and the company.
Waldron's Casino features The Sightseers led by Will J Kennedy Jack Miller and Harry P Kelley with Arthur Delmore the Carnival Four Flo Davis Shirley Laurence Vivian Laurence and Ida Clare The Billy K Wells book and lyrics and Coooper directing stage a week of musical comedy and vaudeville with a large singing and dancing chorus Evening performances begin at 7 45 o clock.
The Orpheum Theatre presents Melody Land with eight artists as the headline act. Bobbe and Nelson win second honors with His Girl. The bill includes Florence Henry and Company The Scout ventriloquist Grace De Wintres Murray and Love and Bob Tip and company with an educated dog. Screen features News Pictorial comedy Wolves of the Rail with William S. Hart. Thursday offers Notorious Delphine and The Studio Girl with Constance Talmadge.
Two headliners performed yesterday Lew Cooper with Arthur Thornton and Dorothy Clark in 70 Cents Jessie Hayward and Company presented a new act Johnson Howard and Li2ette offered acrobatic comedy Maude Tiffany and Wolfsord’s dogs closed the bill Screen features included News Pictorial a comedy and The Widow's Might with Julian Eltinge The lineup changes Thursday with Colonel Patt ee's Old Soldier Fiddlers and Wolves of the Rail starring William S Hart
In Retort Charley Vergzog argues banning windups would improve batting. Pitchers counter that silencing batters would slow the game, maintain pace, and affect play.
Mike Sacks a famed burlesque comedian wins hearty applause at the Howard Atheneum aided by Bob Alexander and Abe Marcus' Dainty Maids. The cast includes Bee Miller and many performers with The Flirting Widow and a lively vaudeville segment keeping the audience in uproar.
Mae Marsh leads Fields of Honor at the Boston Theatre this week where a crowd gathers at a newspaper board announcing war in many languages. Vernon Steele and Marguerite Marsh play key roles with Eddie Borden and Sir James Dwyer in vaudeville.
At the Beacon Theatre yesterday two photoplays opened in Boston for the week. Sylvia of the Secret Service stars Mrs. Vernon Castle as a United States Secret Service operative. Spirit of 17 features Jack Pickford as a brave youth foiling criminals, plus a comedy and news reel.
The Shoe Style Review by New England shoe makers directed by R. J. Walsh showcased spring boots oxfords and pumps worn by living models from New York. Gray suede patent leather white kid and canvas dominate materials with heel heights from nine inches for French heels to eight inches for Cuban. The display paired footwear with Palm Beach style gowns and summer silhouettes.
Samuel Mendelson of 98 McLean street shot himself in the head on his roof yesterday afternoon. He was found by a neighbor with a .38 caliber revolver nearby and died at Massachusetts General Hospital last night from his wounds.
The annual poultry show opens in Mechanics Building in Boston at 10 o’clock with entries from the United States and Canada. Judges begin at 9 a.m. daily. Governor McCall will speak on poultry and eggs and their wartime value.
Franklin Park Theatre presents Car lyle Blackwell with Muriel Ostriche and Evelyn Greely in The Good For Nothing. Mack Sennett comedy Roping Her Romeo and vaudeville by Claude Rauch and others entertain. Bushman and Bayne star in Red White and Blue Blood with The Hidden Hand serial. complete vaudeville change this week.
Field Marshal Haig reports an enemy raid early today on a post southeast of Armen tieres with several men missing. Hostile artillery has been active in the St Julien area and southeast of Hargicourt.
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