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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1919
Page
17
A private Shubert Theatre showing of Open Your Eyes presented by the Health Department aims to warn parents about hidden dangers of false modesty and youths’ impetuosity. The screening targets societal menace, urging fathers and mothers to pursue wholesome guidance.
A staged piece contrasts two households guiding a daughter toward purity versus neglect leading to tragedy. A young man and a naive girl fall prey to a dangerous romance and a mad house after a rich aunt’s indulgence. Quack doctors’ schemes are shown. lessons urge commonsense and caution. The Fadette Ladies' Orchestra accompanies the show.
A strong Orpheum bill yesterday featured Brindamour the king of wonder workers with Tele Hilliard, plus O Connor and Dixon Regal and Mack in The Book Shop. Adele Oswald in The Conan of It and Beck and Stone performed. On screen were new news pictures, a Mack Sennett comedy, and Alice Brady in Redhead. Dorothy Dalton in Other Men s Wives appeared on the screen.
At Norumbega Park yesterday the Liberty Players gave a highly creditable performance of What Happened to Jones. Members of the organization proved thoroughly equal to impersonating the various characters. The natural attractions of the park are at their best.
The swimming pool at Pemberton Inn has been added to the resort attractions on the South Shore. Fresh sea water flows into a spacious concrete tank, surrounded by hundreds of electric lights, making night bathing a delight.
Henry Jewett Players star in Are You a Mason at the Copley Theatre with Joy Clive Craske Wingfield Matthews Montagu Newcombe Roach Ediss Hamilton. The Colleen Bawn at Arlington closes the season with Boucicault’s romance of love and stagecraft led by Kent Cairns Robinson Myles Bosworth Elliston Murray Stevers Ryan.
Bowdoin Square Theatre screens Mickey about an orphan girl forced to live by her wits with Mabel Normand delivering a strong performance. Dorothy Dalton stars in The Lady of Red Butte, plus Sennett comedy and The Perils of Thunder Mountain continuation. Vaudeville features Corporal Mooney and a weekly bargain night with extra acts. Next week Charles Ray appears in The Busher and The Woman Thou Gavest Me.
At Loew's Globe yesterday Alice Srudy starred in Redhead as a girl who marries a young town figure, hailed as among Miss Brady's best photoplays. Betty Compson starred in The Devil's Trail, with a new Mack Sennet comedy featured. The last half bill included Dorothy Dalton in Other Men's Wives and baby Marie Osborne in A Child M'sieu.
The final Waldorf week features a closing bill with Lane and Morgan in Listen Mickey, Dae and Neville, four Selaras and Georgia Emmett, plus newsreels, a comedy and A Midnight Romance with Anita Stewart. The last half to include Libby, Brown and Conlon, Fred Rogers, Flagler and Maria, Joe Barton, and Mae Murray in What Am I Bid.
Paragon Park in Greater Boston offers an up to date circus experience plus Elm Gardens. The Broad way Revue of 1919 showcases catchy music pretty girls and pleasing dances with Edna Leader Frances Feeley and other favorites on stage.
Albert Ray in Words and Music By and Enid Bennett in The Law of Men headline the first part of the week at the Lancaster Theatre. The second half features Alice Brady in The Indestructible Wife and Alice Joyce in The Third Degree. Short reel photoplays and pictorial news complete the program.
The Sunset Girls burlesque company drew patrons to the Howard Atheneum yesterday with merriment and song. Billy Spencer and Freddy Binder headlined a mixed cast including Felix Martin Max Cohen Harry Van Anna Armstrong Sue Milford Edna Grenville and a 24 voice chorus. The vaudeville lineup featured Wilbur and Girlie Steve Freda Earl and Bartlett Conley and Chic Kola and a contortionist plus Theda Bara in Under Two Flags on the Howardscope.
A large Park Theatre audience praised Theda Bara in A Woman There Was calling it a masterpiece of art. Mae Marsh appears in Spotlight Sade as a daughter of Erin who becomes a chorus queen to win the man she loves. The latest Vitagraph comedy and Park Weekly finish the bill. Violinist Glinka played two solos.
The Post reveals a 100 part condensed novels series by James B. Connolly with Westward Ho slated for tomorrow. It lists future condensations including Consuelo, Adam Bede, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Don Quixote, Paul and Virginia, Tom Brown's School Days, Dombey and Son, Romola, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Right of Way, Coniston, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Deemster among others, to run daily for 100 days beginning May 1.
The 10000 ton American transport Federal docked in New York from Antwerp with only one army officer and 10 Y M C A workers aboard. Captain M D Mills of Seattle led the party as military guest while embarkation officials and welfare workers numbered nine. Officials noted no cargo on board and the passenger list being unusually restricted.
Mary Regan is shown this week at Gordon’s Olympia with Anita Stewart in the title role praised for her performance. The program includes vaudeville acts Fitzgerald and Carroll in The Last of the 400 Homer Lind and company in The Music Teacher Mack and Lee in Milk and Melody Lane and Marr and others plus Olympia News Weekly and a new comedy.
In Cambridge at the Central Square Theatre Douglas Fairbanks stars in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo all week. The vaudeville bill includes Betty Bond George and Nettie Forte Powers and Wallace with Sandy Shaw and the Hughes duo. No Mother to Guide Him by Mack Sennett is shown. An entire vaudeville change is planned Thursday through Saturday.
Through Wednesday evening the Codman Square Theatre presents Holmes and Wells and Lillian Ruby in a Top and Bottom segment plus news pictures and a George Walsh Fox production Help Help Police. In the second half McCormack Shannon Hayes Rose Dell appear with Norma Talmadge in The Probation Wife on screen.
Fannie Ward leads the Franklin Park Theatre bill with Common Clay drawing large crowds in the first half of the week. The program also features another The Red Glove episode with Marie Walcamp and four all star vaudeville acts.
The Fear Woman stars Pauline Frederick in a strong dramatic role while Sessue Hayakawa appears in His Debt a thrilling story of San Francisco’s oriental quarter.
The St James Theatre offers Hall Caine's The Woman Thou Gavest Me as the leading feature this week, paired with Mack Sennett's No Mother to Guide Him and Pathe news. Vaudeville includes Hal Stephens, with Marguerite Clark in Come Out of the Kitchen and The Man of Might finale. Five new vaudeville acts complete the bill.
This week at the Exeter shows Douglas Fairbanks in Knickerbocker Buckaroo and May Allison in The Island of Intrigue through Wednesday evening. For the rest of the week Madge Kennedy appears in Leave it to Susan and Vivian Martin in An Innocent Adventuress along with Pathe and Ford weekly shorts and comedies.
Boston police search for friends or relatives of Alfred E Storey after New York police report he is at Knickerbocker Hospital with severe injuries. Address listed as Boston, but no directory listing for the name could be found.
Washington June 9 The Senate took up a bill to repeal the law authorizing federal control of telegraphs telephones and cables after brief explanations by the chair and others. The measure seeks to end federal control of key communications networks.
The banks committee will hold a morning hearing on Rep Bliss's bill to repeal a law that bans frequent dividend payments on deposits and prohibits interest on deposits under six months. Sim on Swig of Tremont Trust and others say the act harms depositors and favors banks. They argue banks should pay interest for all deposits regardless of term.
The Shuberts and Jolson schedule a special matinee for June 17 Bunker Hill Day and host 60 shell shocked soldiers this week. Jolson greets golfers from across the country in town for the tournament as Sinbad enters its eighth week with no end in sight.
Emma Carus, long a Boston favorite, headlines this week at Keith's Theatre with new songs and stylish gowns. The bill also features Al Herman, Santos and Hays in The Health Hunters, Officer Vokes and Don, Erwin and Jane Connelly in The Tail of a Shirt, Kharam the Persian pianist, the Brock family, the Rosarres, Myers and Noon, and Kinograms.
Stephen Shaughnessy of Roxbury claimed to be a former Secret Service employee in Boston. He was arrested yesterday in Kalamazoo Michigan charged with robbing a jewelry store. He is wanted in Boston where an indictment cites larceny of an automobile.
Manager Charles H. Waldron hosts a company of local favorites at Waldron's Casino all week. Frank Finney performs from Bits of Hits with a Travesty on Carmen. Other stars include Phil Ott Birnie Clark Jack Witts Grace Howard Nettie Nelson Hazel Alger and a male quartet.
Douglas Fairbanks drew strong applause at Uphams Corner Strand for The Knickerbocker Buckaroo a melodrama with comedy situations. The Final Close-Up with Shirley Mason also screens on the same bill along with Arthur Martell at the Strand organ and a lively comedy. Thursday through Saturday feature The Heart of Humanity with Dorothy Phillips and Alice Brady in The World We Live In.
At the Fenway Theatre yesterday Douglas Fairbanks appeared in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo and Norma Talmadge starred in The Children in the House. Both pictures will run until Thursday when Hall Caine's The Woman Thou Gavest Me and Corinne Griffith in Thin Ice are scheduled.
A society woman fears inherited liquor taste shaping her fate in The Fear Woman. The companion piece His Debt stars Sesue Hayakawa and depicts life in San Francisco's Chinese quarter.
Flo-Flo concluded its seven week stay at Tremont Theatre in Boston marking two months of steady business. The next attraction to open is the photoplay Daddy Longlegs featuring Mary Pickford.
Anita Stewart stars as a convict's daughter in Mary Regan based on LeRoy Scott. The performance follows her struggle to live down her father's Shame amid a tense battle of body and soul. Vaudeville features Dougal & Fletcher, George Bean and company Veterans of 64, Arthur Vert champ, Belgian violinist, Linder and Hines and Olympia News Weekly.
A Prague University committee conferred on President Wilson the degree of Doctor and Professor. The ceremony took place in Paris on June 9.
The Boston Athletic Association fills part of Symphony Hall for tonight's public Pop concert. Guest commander Strube will lead a program including Hungarian March, Vienna Blood, Elgar Overture Solennelle 1812, Faust intermezzo, Caprice Hongrois, Pannhäuser overture, and selections from Fiddlers Three among others. The program also lists soloists Dunkler Miquelle Theodorowicz Cella Snow and the 101st Infantry souvenir drama.
David W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms continues its run at the Colonial Theatre in its third week. The romance is underscored by four orchestras providing musical accompaniment during showings.
The advertisement promises relief for sore feet with Tiz foot powder. It claims to draw out acids and poisons, reduce corns and blisters, and provide lasting comfort for dancers and walkers. Available in a 25 cent box from druggists and department stores.
The Majestic Theatre opened another week of The Unpardonnable Sin drawing large crowds. The photoplay has attracted a consistently big audience since its first showing and is described as thrilling and timely.
Boston Theatre features May Allison in Castles in the Air this week described as a real comedy. Vaudeville acts include Jimmy Salvo and company the Three Weber Girls Espe and Dutton Otto and Sheridan Bobby O'Neil and company and the Kinograms offering comedy dancing and acrobatic routines.
Cummins of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee led今日 hearings as passage is expected within days with GOP and Democratic backing. The House Interstate Commerce Committee met briefly on repeal but took no action.
Edward Cohen a 46 year old resident of 20 W Mackins Street Roxbury lies in critical condition at Haymarket Relief hospital with a fractured skull and other injuries. Police investigate the mystery of how he was injured after being found unconscious on Central street shortly after 8 o'clock by Fred S Plummer of Con-
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