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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1919
Page
59
Princess Radziwill explains Bolshevist aims as told by Lenine Trotsky envoys in the United States. She recounts that officials defended terror as necessity while she labels it blackmail and describes the alleged motive behind the Red Terror.
Otis F. Wood reports on a March 24 Bolshevik bulletin view defending the Red Terror as a response to allied intervention. He contrasts Bolshevik claims with his interview notes, arguing the Soviet stance justifies mass killings and condemns foreign aggression, while warning readers not to confuse Bolsheviks with the Russian people.
Flo-Flo at the Tremont rolls into its seventh week tomorrow night. The show shines with melodies and dancing that brighten the action, and the vibrant costumes and scenery enhance the visual appeal. The principal performers fit their song and comic duties well.
In a Sunday Post feature Karl G. Baker profiles New England soldiers with war decorations. This installment tells of Private George Dilboy of the Yankee Division who went west in France and earned a Congressional Medal, with Michael Perkins previously chronicled.
Private George Dilboy of Somerville, born in Allatsata Smyrna, earned the Medal of Honor for extraordinary bravery at Belleau Wood. He ran toward enemy guns, fired from a prone position after his leg was nearly severed, killing two enemies and aiding the advance. His sacrifice epitomizes American and Greek wartime valor.
Cor corporal James T Dunne of Head quarters Company 7th Field Artillery from Dorchester is credited with keeping critical wireless communications open during the Oct 4 1918 battle near Very France despite heavy fire. He was wounded and three operators were killed. He saved Allied lives and praised by generals and French soldiers for the First Division. He enlisted in Boston and arrived in France May 21 1917.
Paramount photoplay The Haunted Bedroom screens at Gordon's Cambridge Central Square Theatre with Enid Bennett and a five act vaudeville lineup including Will Oakland Laura Brennan and Frances Kennedy. Fatty Arbuckle appears in The Desert Hero and Thomas H Ince presents a photoplay The Haunted Bedroom as part of a new program featuring Charles Ray and additional vaudeville acts.
A scan of listings shows Arlington and Beacon venues offering The Rosary Sinbad and other features. Boston spaces like Opera House and Keith's present motion pictures, burlesque and vaudeville at venues including Copley Olympia Park and Shubert with titles such as Flo Flo and The Eyes of the World.
Billy Spencer leads the Yankee Girls Burlesque this week at the Howard Atheneum with the Surietta titled In the Movies. Fred Binder Felix Martin Anna Armstrong Edna Grenville and others headline the cast. A 24 member chorus and acts by the Alexander brothers Evelyn Hayes and Wynn George C. Davis and more fill the program. The Howardscope presents William Farnum in Riders of the Purple Sage with a Sunday concert starting at seven.
Patrons are promised two vaudeville bills and photoplays for the week. The first half features The Office Boy and the Typewriter with O'Brien Navel and company plus Alice Manning Puppettes and a newsreel. The second half presents Lee and Bennett Temple four Dan Gracey and Jucille and Marcelle with a Sunday special bill.
Daily photoplay changes feature Rex Beach The Brand Jane Grey When My Ship Comes In Bessie Barriscale The Cast Off Viola Dana Satan Jr Norma Talmadge The New Moon Mary Pickford Captain Kid Jr June Elvidge The Social Pirate William Farnum The Man Hunter Clara Kimball Young The Common Law Mae Murray What Am I Bid The program also includes a Sunday vaudeville and film show.
A Voice in the Dark will be presented at Park Square Theatre beginning Monday night in June. Sponsor A H Woods produced the play written by Ralph H Dyar and Willard Mack with Olive Wyndham Willard Mack William B Mack Florine Arnold Frank Monroe Arline Hackett and others in the cast.
The JW Lancaster Theatre presents two photoplay bills this week. Tom Mix stars in The Coming of the Law as the central figure in a thrilling story. Kitty Gordon appears in Playthings of Passion, a tale of social intrigue. The last half features William Desmond in The Prodigal Liar and Cecil De Mille's For Better For Worse with a star cast. A Sunday film show is listed.
Nazimova star of Out of the Fog resumes film work at the Boston Theatre this week in The Red Lantern described as her most successful picture yet. Vaudeville features include Wright and Dietrich in song and dance, Colonel Diamond and granddaughter in modern dances, Simmons and Brantley, Ezra Mathews and company in Bill Cressy’s Quick Sales, and violinist Maleto Bonconi.
Gladys Brockwell stars as a poor girl trapped by divorce in The Divorce Trap at Gordon's Olympia. A vaudeville bill features Lillian Ruby the violin virtuoso, Dale and Boyle, Hal Stephens and company, Wilson and Held in The Songster and the Bootblack, George and Anna Glocker, and the Olympia News Weekly.
Douglas Fairbanks leads The Knickerbocker Buckaroo as Teddy Drake a New Yorker in the West who aids sheriffs men and falls for a jailed girl. Bessie Love stars in The Little Boss. Strand comedy and Helen Barr soloist accompany the program. The Sunday concert offers Madge Kennedy in The Fair Pretender and Claire Anderson in Mme Faulette.
The Fortune Fallo company performs H M S Pinafore at Plymouth Theatre this week, closing Gilbert and Sullivan season. Cast includes Josephine Mabel Day Ralph Rackstraw Warren Procter Admiral William Danforth Dick Deadeye Frank Moulan Buttercup Greta Riseley Hebe Gladys Caldwell Boatswain John Willard Captain Bertram Peacock. The Mikado will be sung in Boston with the same cast Thursday through Saturday evenings.
The Wald érfé Theatre announces a two part week bill with Toney Williams and company in The Brooklyn Handicap first half plus Lee Stoddart Claytons and Wire and Walker. Screen fare includes news pictures a comedy and The Girl of My Dreams with Billie Rhodes. Second half presents Mernard and Searth in Lonesome Street Joe Maxwell and company in The Fire Chief Jack Atkins Orphea a novel instrumental act and The Best Man on screen. Sunday features five vaudeville acts and motion pictures.
The Beacon Theatre opens a week of photoplays headlined by David W. Griffiths True Heart Susie starring Lillian Gish and Robert Harron. Also shown are Marguerite Clark in Come Out of the Kitchen Ruth Chatterton’s stage favorite in film form and Fatty Arbuckle’s A Desert Hero with newsreels. Sunday matinee follows standard schedule.
Irene Bordoni headlines at Keith's Theatre with songs by the famed soldier songwriter. Billie Kreeves stars in The Right Key but in the Wrong Flat. Other acts include Burns and Irabito, Jimmy Dut ton and company, Franker Wood and Bunce Wyle, Jimmy Cullen, McMahon and Diamond, the Flying Mayos, Burt and Florence Mayo, plus kinograms.
Gladys Brockwell stars in The Divorce Trap at Upham's Corner Strand Monday to Wednesday with ongoing talk about the divorce topic. Tom Moore appears in A Man and His Money on the same bill, assisted by Strand organist Arthur Martell and a comedy. Tim Mix headlines Thursday to Saturday in The Coming of the Law, paired with Pauline Frederick in One Week of Life, plus Strand News Weekly.
Tremont Temple announces a brief engagement starting Monday afternoon June th for a screen production titled Bolshevism on Trial. The film is a timely adaptation of the novel Comrades by Thomas Dickson Jr with tense and vitally interesting scenes.
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