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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1913
Page
6
Lucius Tuttle former president of the Boston and Main e is welcomed by over 30 railroad workers at a Fitchburg YMCA event. He speaks on Railroading as a Profession and defends organized labor while urging fair wages and safe conditions. He praises self made workers who advance through their own effort.
The public and press were excluded from testimony in a Sherman antitrust suit brought by Bluefields Steamship Co against United Fruit Co. in Philadelphia federal court. Local witnesses testified in Philadelphia as depositions before Special Examiner General Charles K. Darling. First witness: Andrew W. Preston, president of United Fruit.
Advertises Eckmans Alterative as a remedy for coughs colds pneumonia bronchitis asthma hay fever throat and lung troubles. Promotes a booklet of recoveries and lists Riker Jaynes Houghton Dutton drugstores and other pharmacists as sellers. Requests readers write Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia for more evidence.
Theatre listings note Mrs Fiske starring in The High Road at Hollis Annie Russell in She Stoops to Conquer at the Shubert Bunty Pulls the Strings at the Majestic Believe Me Xantippe at the Castle Square The Lion and the Mouse at the St James and other bills.
A Boston presentation of Edward Sheldon’s The High Road stars Mrs. Fiske as Mary Page, a country girl who rises to lead a national working women’s movement. The plot follows her from art lover to factory reformer, marriage to the Governor, and a blackmailer’s threat as she seeks equal moral status for women. The review notes strong acting, some lagging moments, and a timely, reflective message about women’s rights and public opinion.
An examining physician for a major life insurer says kidney troubles cause many insurance rejections and most applicants are unaware of their condition. He cites Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a leading remedy and recommends trials, noting it is herbal and sold in bottles of fifty cents and one dollar. Free sample requests available from Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
A week into their stay at the Tremont Theatre the English company behind Milestones has won strong local favor. Notable performers include Malcolm Cherry Clayton Greene Charles Vaughan Geoffrey Douglass Sibyl Walsh Blanche Ripley Gwendolen Floyd Kathleen Boyle Marie Hessel and Una Venning.
The fourth week of The Woman opens at the Park Theatre with Jane Peyton delivering a striking title performance and commanding the crucial third act. Mary Nash shines as the telephone girl with standout switchboard and later scenes, while John W. Cope Cuvier Hastings Edwin Hold Harold Vosburgh and Carlton Macey fill the rest of the cast.
The Boston Theatre opened the second week of Garden of Allah with a full auditorium. Hichens Dorothy Donnelley and Lawson Butts lead, supported by Charles A. Stevenson and Frank Kingdon as the story of love and religious devotion unfolds amid a strong patronage.
Wiegfeld's Follies of 1912 at the Colonial Theatre enters its final stretch with a packed house. Bert Williams's comic numbers and singer-dancer Leon Errol headline a cast including Harry Watson Jr Elizabeth Brice Charles Judels Evelyn Carlton Bernard Granville and Ray Samuels delivering lively songs and dancers.
Billy W. Watson led the Happyland Girls at the Gaiety for a week long Poston engagement. The show opened with Watson joining in the second act to an ovation after a playful slide. Frank Harcourt James Lake and Ed Rogers carried the first act while the chorus scenery and wardrobe were praised as the season’s finest.
Boston audiences enjoyed the first local production of Graham Moffat's Bunty Pulls the Strings at the Majestic. The Scots comedy features Bunty guiding friends and lovers through a witty plot with vivid characters and authentic dialect, drawing tears and smiles alike from a large crowd.
The National Theatre stages H Bart McHugh juvenile stars in The Lawn Party a musical comedy revue with impersonations of Lilian Russell Caruso Warfield Cohan Mantell Irene Franklin and others. Dooley and co perform in operatic burlesque sketches and modern entertainment bits with dance rope tricks and rag songs.
Annie Russell leads a polished cast in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Shubert Theatre last night. The performance blends humor with tender moments and features Oswald Yorke and George Giddens in key roles with a strong supporting company. It runs for a week with repeats tonight and through Saturday, before Sheridan's Rivals and then Mantell in Shakespearean repertoire.
Cora Livingston enters week two at the Howard as she adds Jack Sheehan's Unknowns in special bouts. The Dandy Girls present It Happened in Havana and It Happened in Paris with witty sketches. Performers include Anna Yale, Victoria Four, Ray Shirley, Lester and Moore, Myrtle Clark, Margie de Almac, Murphy and Francis, De Alma and Mae, Karlton and Clifford, the Dailey brothers, Herskind, Clark and Litchfield, and others delivering a lively, varied program.
A Bowdoin Square Theatre vaudeville program this week features Big Jack the boxing kangaroo, the Piroscoffis juggling novelty, Myers and Perry the Vago bond Strollers, the Broadway Trio, the Two Bilikens dancing, Dolly Clifford in ragtime and soldier ditties, Rita Currier singing, Clark and Litchfield in a musical fortification, films including The Siege of Petersburg, with amateurs Thursday and a big cabaret Friday.
The Globe Theatre presents a long entertaining bill this week featuring Bartholdi's birds with the cycle bird act, Honors and LePrince eccentric comedy acrobats, the Dillon brothers, Silber and North in a clever singing playlet, Leo Delmage on a unicycle, the Three Rankins, the Pendleton sisters, Jim Horton, Sevon and Julienne and other acts.
Castle Square Theatre presents Believe Me Xantippe by a Harvard writer as a humorous four act comedy. Dolly Kamman dominates the cast with Mary Young. Craig stars as the hero. Meek Walker Melrose Trader Roberts Colcord Browne fill key roles.
Cecelia Loftus stars at B F Keith's Theatre with rapid impersonations of Elsie Janis Jane Cowl Mrs Fiske Nora Bayes and Maude Allan in Peer Gynt dance. May Wirth performs a daring bareback double somersault. Other acts include Eva Taylor Dan Quinlan Vic Richards Cartmell and Harris and the Zvyna fonas and Three Gladdenbecks in novelty.
George Arliss enters the 15th week of Disraeli at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston. The engagement cannot be extended, so only a few more showings remain and the play will not tour New England. A special matinee is set for Wednesday January 29 alongside the usual Thursday and Saturday matinees.
Charlie Waldron's big winner week highlights Al Reeves' Big Beauty Show at Waldron's Casino with crowd at both performances. Notables include George W. Scott George Durgin Zella Russell Georgie DeGraff Lucile Man ion Vera George Delores DeGraff Catherine Crawford and cast members Beatrice Drew Catherine Horter Zella Russell. Two burlesques Flying High and Easy Picking entertain with strong plots while toe dancing piano and singing draw furor.
Grace Elliston received an ovation for her Shirley Rossmore role in The Lion and the Mouse at the St James Theatre. William Florence appears as Ryder the money king, with Dudley Halvey, Hubert Pierce, William Walsh and others in a well staged revival that charms Boston audiences.
The Grand Opera House presents a busy burlesque titled A Busy Day at the Union Station by the New Century Girls with Teddy Burns as master comedian. Marie Fisher, Pearl Reid, Ralph Rockway, Charles Saunders star amid musical numbers and a New Year’s Eve sketch. Wrestling heads to New England title match Crackerjack Butler versus Peter Goulette. George Tuohey to officiate.
Jan 20 New Haven reports Pullman Company takes over sleeping drawing room and dining car service and reduces fares. Boston to New York stays $1, but between New Haven and Hartford Bridgeport and New York City prices drop to 30 cents 30 cents and 4 cents respectively.
The Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter of Westminster Abbey has been chosen to deliver this year’s William Belden Noble Foundation lectures at Harvard. Lectures will be given in Harvard’s new lecture hall or Sanders Theatre on February 24 26 28 March 5 7 and 8 with subjects to be announced.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Remedy as a fast treatment for piles. It urges readers to send name and address for a free trial sample by return mail, warns against operations, and notes a 50 cent price per box at drug stores.
Professor John H. Gray of Minneapolis headmaster at the University of Minnesota economics school was awarded 1690 in a suit seeking 5000 against the Boston Elevated. He said he was injured when a car started suddenly as he was alighting at Harvard's Cambridge commencement in June 1911.
Benjamin Wigan alias Wigonsky of Cambridge was found guilty of perjury in the Superior Criminal Court East Cambridge yesterday and Judge Chase sentenced him to one year in the House of Correction. The charge arose from labor troubles at the Oxford Rubber Company in Cambridge last November.
A home made cough remedy promises quick relief within 24 hours. It mixes sugar syrup with Pinex pine extract in a pint bottle for family use, claiming pleasant taste and strong medical value for asthma bronchitis sore lungs and throat troubles. The plan is marketed with a satisfaction guarantee and available through The Pinex Co. or local druggists.
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