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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1905
Page
4
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A change of bill at Tremont Theatre presents The Geezer of Geek a summer musical by Robert J. Adams with score by Paul Schindler. Dave Lewis stars as the Elgin Geezer. ensemble includes J C Marlowe Fred Frear Nena Blake Mae Taylor and Amelia Stone. The musical features bright chorus numbers lively dancing and elaborate scenery and runs through mid August.
A glowing Colonial Theatre audience witnessed The Pearl and the Pumpkin, praised for its visual splendor and enduring charm. Cast highlights include Edwin Stevens Ancient Mariner, Sager Midgely and Ger tie Carlisle as standout performers, with Vermont setting and Hallowe'en motifs shaping the spectacle. Limited Boston stay noted. the show travels no further in New England.
Paul Valadon, understudy to Kellar, dazzles with smooth palming and new tricks like The Drum That Can't Be Beaten. The 15‑member Williams and Walker Glee Club and a strong comedy lineup deliver high laughter. Notable acts include Tenley, Barry and Halvers, Morton and Diamond, and the Fadettes musical program.
The Empire Theatre stock company presented Boucicaults Arrah na Pogue to a large, enthusiastic audience. William Courtleigh shone as Shaun the Post with strong singing, Mary Hall charmed as Ariah Meelish, and Isabelle Fletcher as Fanny Powers. Cast highlights included Gertrude Berkeley, William Humphrey, Carl Anthony, Francis Ball, William Evarts, Mortimer Weldon, and Lindsay Morison. Next week the company revives The Banker's Daughter.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents Woman's Enemy with strong melodrama and striking stage settings including a hunting grounds scene and a grand drawing room. Lead Charlotte Hunt as Helen Cooke earns praise, with strong turns from Charles Miller and Annette Marshall. The show runs one week with bargain matinees for ladies, as Lothrop stock members prepare for Northern Lights tomorrow.
Cold weather boosted Palace Theatre attendance as the Dill stock company offered two burlesques Dr Osler's Institute and Roxbury Justice with lively performances by John J. Black George Scanlon Al Patterson Tom Kennette and Mike Nibbe. Featured numbers by Pearl Stevens Hattie Mills May Taylor Maud Elston Marie Bordeaux and Nibbe. Charley Farrell headlined a black faced comedy act Clark and Gilmore performed a Dutch sketch DeRenzo and Ladue showcased aerialists and acrobats Hattie Mills sang coon songs and Ash and Philips entertained with Hebrew comedy.
Crowded audiences welcomed Hartford and Davis in their burlesque Gay Paree at Walkers Museum. The act featured Mabel Johnson, Grace Waldo, Nellie Hartford, Tina Davis, and others with vaudeville singing, dancing, and novelty displays. Amateur events planned Wednesday evening.
Visitors tour 48 acres of Lexington Park to enjoy J W Gorman's Alabama Troubadours nightly this week offering buck and wing dancing cake walking vocal solos duets and choruses. Lenna Claire Howe's Woman's Orchestra provides daily concerts with popular programs as the cotton field life theme continues through the week.
PA&E Theatre presents Faith Mother a contemporary American drama set in Boston. A young society girl with talent for penmanship is drawn into a crime plot with two clever criminals who seek to use her skills to forge bonds.
For the first time in eight summers Norumbega Park offers the comic opera Said Pasha with a high quality company. The management notes patrons crave variety and provides this classic opera in afternoon and evening performances all week at a small admission price.
A Bay Springs resident, Lorey, was killed in a streetcar accident when the car passed over him after being struck by the vehicle. His head was nearly severed, and he leaves a widow and four children. Reports indicate he has siblings in Boston.
This week two novelties join the nightly free fireworks at Point of Pines the Oriental maze delayed previously and a cake walking elephant in colored flames. Fireworks run at 9 45 each night with free admission. The Pines Theatre features J W Gorman s vaudeville show New York Vaudeville Club and acts. Balloonist E L Stafford resumes daily ascensions. Lynn Cadet Band plays with a varied upcoming program.
Paragon Park offers day and night entertainment from a lily lagoon to a 150 foot tower adorned with 25 000 lights. The Martland Band performs daily and H F Blaney sings popular songs while a free hourly open air circus features top acts like Duffin Redcay acrobats St Belmos trapeze act and Peto and Wilson barrel jumpers.
In Thamesville near Norwich Conn the new Norwich Silk Company mill boiler exploded wrecking the plant. Engineer and fireman Joseph E. Hopkins, 65, fatally burned died at Backus Hospital. Sixty other workers escaped without serious harm, two girls slightly hurt.
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