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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1918
Page
5
Earl Derr Biggers revised Inside the Lines after public favor waned for the original. The new Boston run at the Copley Theatre last evening showcased changes and a refreshed plot aimed at tightening the game like drama.
The message promotes Gmore Snaps and contrasts it with 9 eggs per dozen, claiming full measure in Snap Fasteners today at 15 for the price of 12 in 5c and 10c grades. It mentions Smore and Three-less stores nearby and asks where readers shop.
The article reviews a wartime drama set at Gibraltar where a Teuton spy aided by a Hindoo plots to blow up the British fleet. An American rescue romance unfolds as officers fail but the spy is revealed as a secret service asset. Performances include H Conway Wingfield Fred Permain Viola Roach and Betty Barnicoat.
This profit sharing week at the Park Theatre features Karl Williams in The Girl in His House about a returned world traveler reuniting with a woman who believes the house is hers. Emily Stevens stars in A Man's World, with The Sunshine Players offering a new comedy and Pathe Weekly reporting current events. Clara Sexton and the Park Symphony Orchestra provide musical entertainment.
Owing to strong audience demand the film at the Shubert Theatre has been continued for another week beyond the original engagement. The production portrays the United States government’s progress and the challenging preparations accomplished with notable reverence and public interest.
The Lancaster Theatre presented three photoplays Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne in Social Quicksands June Caprice in Blue Eyed Mary and Dorothy Dalton in Ten of Diamonds The last half of the week offers Mary Pickford in M ls Alice Brady in At the Mercy of Men and Louie Glaum in Idola ters
John Philbrick and Jack Fairbanks with their company stage The Camouflage Girls at Medford Boulevard Theatre this week. The show pleases audiences with bright snappy performance, tasteful humor, and attractive theatregoers yesterday.
Keith's Theatre features Belle Baker with Charles Withers in For Pity's Sake and presents a varied bill. The program includes Somewhere in France, Sandy and Norton song number, Frank Dobson in modern eccentricities, Dupree and Dupree cycling novelty, Elsie Williams Who Was to Blame, Clinton and Rooney musical comedy duo, and Hanlon and Hanlon sensational physical marvels.
Two photoplays headline the Beacon Theatre program. Mary Pickford stars in How Could You Jean with a string of unusual deceptions prompting questions. Wallace Reid leads The Firefly of France, plus short comedies and news pictures complete the bill.
At Loew's Columbia Theatre two photoplays were offered yesterday in the first half weeks program. Enid Bennett in A Desert Wooing portrays a society debutante whose mother sends her into the marriage mart for money. David Graham Phillips' Old Wives for New features an all star cast. The last half will present Emmy Wehlan in The House of Gold and Nazimova in Toys of Fate.
Madge Kennedy and Mitchell Lewis headline the Franklin Park Theatre program this week with The Fair Pretender and Nine Tenths of the Law. Also on bill are Miss Alice Wallace and Viola Dana in The Only Road, plus comedy acts and Pathe current events.
The Scollay Square Olympia features Theda Bara in Under the Yoke as a gently bred Spanish girl who saves her American sweetheart. A new Billy West comedy joins the program along with Johnson and Mack the International Beauties Ruth Goodwin double voice the Brocades Quintet Jennings and Dore dancers Pippi fax and Panto pantomimics the Olympia News Weekly and other pictures.
William Rock and Frances White headline a chatter song and dance revue at the Wilbur Theatre. The shows are sold out as audiences respond to the novelty and humor. Jack Gardner and the New York Chief Club contribute orchestral and instrumental music to the performances.
Barrymore stars in Raffles the Amateur Cracksman at Bowdoin Square Theatre alongside Jack Pickford in Mile-a-Minute Kendall and Saucy Madeline with Ben Turpin and Polly Moran. The Crash of Fate and The Woman in the Web episode are featured with vaudeville acts by Newton and West Sheldon and Sheldon Jere McAuliffe Dorothy Curtis Barry and Sauls. Next week George M. Cohan appears in Hit-the-Trail Holliday.
Gazelle Marche the renowned screen actress appears at Codman Square Theatre and signs autographs for ladies in attendance. The current vaudeville features At Rocky Pass and Soothful Syncopation among others, with a complete bill change planned for Thursday headlined by Brown of Harvard.
The Boston Theatre presents a strong holiday lineup including the photoplay Life or Honor starring Leah Baird James Morrison and Violet Palmer an anti capital punishment drama. The vaudeville segment features Donegan and Curtis The Masher Ford and Cunningham a Mack Sennett comedy Reynolds and White Vaughn and Dreams and Boyers Walters and Crocker the three rubes.
Paragon Park presents special attractions this week in the Palm Garden cabaret and in the free open air circus. Mermaida and her diving partner perform alluring aquatic feats in the cabaret swimming pool while the Paragon Revue of 1918 with the novelty orchestra and Pendleton sisters continues to entertain patrons.
Mary Pickford stars in How Could You Jean at the Modern Theatre Boston in a charming photoplay with her signature miming talent. The same bill features Marion Polk Angellotti story The Firefly of France with Wallace Reid in the lead, plus short comedy and news pictures.
Norumbega Park hosts Inside the Lines this week presented by the Liberty Players. Pretty Joan Quest wins new laurels for a subtle interpretation of a difficult role as the company earns high praise. Special Fourth of July attractions highlighted.
Tremont Temple presented Ambassador Gerard's "My Four Years in Germany" last night with a company of notable actors delivering lifelike portrayals. The production enters its 12th week of a remarkable run.
For the first half of the week at the Old South Theatre William Farnum appears in True Blue a Western drama Gloria Swanson stars in Station Content On Thursday Friday and Saturday William Desmond is announced in Closin In Gladys Leslie is seen in The Shop Girl a sparkling comedy drama
William Desmond appears in Closin In a Northwest story at Washington Theatre with Gladys Leslie in The Shop Girl. On Thursday Friday and Saturday William Farnum performs in True Blue and Gloria Swanson stars in You Can t Believe Everything.
The Exeter presents Lina Cavalieri in Love's Conquest Vivian Martin in Viviette George M. Cohan in Hit-the-Trail-Holliday Constance Talmadge in The Lesson plus Pathe News Weekly Strand and Christie comedies for the current week.
Paris July 1 The American Red Cross set up three evacuation hospitals rapid behind the battle line after the last German offensive. One unit left Paris with 10 nurses and 10 tons of gear to locate a site, renting and equipping it in three days. A second hospital expanded to 600 beds after equipment arrived by motor trucks. The third lies where American and British troops are brigaded. Nurses with gas masks are common in Paris.
Amsterdam dispatch notes Vorwaerts claims Germany faces a general shortage undermining morale and reviving demands for an early end to the war. Berlin reports a new clothing ordinance requires a certified list of clothes owned with applications for any new apparel.
Paris July 1 The municipal council asks the French government to proclaim Independence Day a national holiday. Henry Simon minister of colonies cabled governors of colonies to join France in celebrating the American Independence Day per parliamentary vote.
Paris July 1 The French airmen have increased aerial activity along the front. Yesterday they brought down or put out of action 21 German planes and set six captive balloons on fire per the war office.
An all star vaudeville bill played at Loew's Orpheum Theatre featuring the Merlette's Mannikins, Stone and McAvoy, H F Robert and company with Cold Coffee, Harrington and Mills, Beth G Hallis, Lockart and Leddie. The screen showed News Picture Mack Sennett film Her Screen Idol and The Kaiser's Shadow with Dorothy Dalton. The bill changes Thursday to The Claws of the Hun with Charles Ray.
The 12th week of Hearts of the World opened with two crowded showings at the Majestic. Last night attendance rose as about 200 officers and sailors from the USS Georgia visited after six months overseas and docking at Boston navy yard.
Foreword notes the author, an American, enlisted in the French Army at war’s outbreak in 1914 and later transferred to the renowned Lafayette Escadrille.
A 1918 reminiscence recounts December 1914 to December 1916 service in the French Flying Corps by Billy Thaw, Bach, and the narrator. They flew Morane Saulnier and Nieuport machines, conducted reconnaissance, landed spies near German lines, and loaded pigeons for covert returns. The narrator describes a dangerous mission on September 21–24, 1915 to seize a box of high explosives, surviving shellfire, while a companion, James Bach, was captured and sentenced to four years in a fortress.
A three year old dancer will perform the role of Happy New Year at the St. Raphael Church garden party in West Medford this Saturday. The event highlights community activity and features the upcoming celebration.
Marie Mulgrew 3 will portray Happy New Year Doro thy Hand 6 Cupid Esther Morang Undine Treks Hersey Skating Caprice Dorothy Granning Zala Mary Frazer Pandora Frances Frazer Scotch Lassie Phyllis Duncklee Irish Colleen Margaret Carboine Night Mary Farnham Noon Ruth Burnham Firefly Beatrice Taylor Sunbeam in local holiday parade cast listed by names and roles.
Nathan Matthews and other hotel owners on Huntington Avenue were awarded 76173 in damages and 1812.50 for cleaning by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. They charged that from 1905 to 1909 the Boston and Albany line, leased to the New York Central, emitted excessive smoke and fumes harming property rental value. The six week Superior Court trial moved to the full bench, which ruled for the owners.
Preston Gibson nephew of Chief Justice White and noted author refuses an army commission and enlists as a private in the marine corps. He notified Colonel E Lester Jones at Signal Corps headquarters Washington. Gibson volunteered for the French army last August and was cited for bravery twice before returning to the United States and speaking for the Liberty Loan.
Gordon's Olympia stages the Billy West comedy alongside Hit-the-Trail-Holliday and a vaudeville slate featuring Charles Gibbs Goldie and Ayres the London Trio Corinne Tilton impersonations Hadgi Sambolo and company in a pan tomime plus Olympia News Weekly and other pictures.
The Globe Theatre presents three screen luminaries this week Mary Pickford stars Amarilly of Clothesline Alley William Farnum heads The Bondman and Charlie Chaplin appears in Behind the Scenes a humorous studio experience
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