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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1912
Page
18
Large Tremont audience last night welcomed Alice Lloyd starting week two of Little Miss Fixit in musical comedy. Lloyd, a vaudeville favorite for dainty comic songs, shines as the clever Miss Fixit and carries the show with her light humor and fresh London songs.
The Globe Theatre enjoyed heavy holiday attendance as audiences cheered a varied bill. Thermos and Arktos performed liquid air tricks making snow balls on stage and tossing them into the audience to lively amusement.
Keith's Theatre offers a rich program this week led by Miss Wish Wynne a clever young comedienne with impersonations and varied costumes. The Old Homestead Octet famed from Denman Thompson's play joined by Cook and Lorenz of Folies Bergere bring musical novelty and strong audience appeal.
The Majestic Theatre offered The Rosary by Edward E. Rose yesterday and will continue this week. Hansel as Wilton delivers rare intensity and insight in stock production. Nannery as Father Kelly shows loving kindness earning audience applause. Cleveland returns to play the dual sister role with earnest sincerity. Sanders, Birch and other favorites give pleasing performances.
A large holiday crowd filled Bowdoin Square Theatre for Violet Mascotte's Merry Maids review with vaudeville and moving pictures. The show began at 10 a.m. and remained lively. Alice Dudley and May Belmont drew early praise. The bill featured McLain sisters Florida De Lisle Zola sisters Lillie Sutherland May Hamilton Dolly Clifford Bessie Martin Kitty Frey Mae Osborne Frances Madigan Petta Ferguson Blanche De Corret and Pearl Ross.
Patrons enjoyed a balanced programme at the Orpheum yesterday featuring WY La Petite Review and Maxims' Models as headliners. The lineup included Weston and Young comedy skit Richard and Clark pianologue and singing Spero and Lovens singing and talking comedians offering a lively variety evening.
The last performances of The Cli max began at the Castle Square yesterday with two pleased audiences laughing at the play's humor and applauding Florence Webber and the cast.
Paragon Park Nantasket opens its eighth season with the Paragon Cabaret expanded to a larger scale. From 9 to 11 p m, every minute is filled with this unique entertainment featuring 75 artists including singers and musicians in the Palm Garden.
Lexington Park amid stately pines and natural scenery lures visitors with landscape gardens. In Rustice Theatre a vaudeville bill plays daily afternoon and evening performances, drawing large holiday crowds yesterday.
Norumbega Park presented a week long program with daily matinee and evening performances. Clifford and Burke headlined and amused audiences, the Vannersons staged a clever bar act, Fewell and Tyson sang and danced, the Benevicts offered a vocal sketch, plus new motion pictures to finish the bill.
The Paul Rainey African Hunt Pictures opened another week of continued success at the Park Theatre drawing crowds and highlighting the ongoing adventure film series.
Visitors to Tremont Temple view rare photos of the coronation ceremonies for King George and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India, offering a vivid glimpse of imperial pageantry.
The Scenic Temple offers a carefully chosen lineup with headliners expected to draw large crowds. The special Bunker Hill Day feature attracted immense audiences who enjoyed the novelties and entertainment on offer.
Manager J. W. Gorman inaugurated the summer season of vaudeville and musical comedy at his Medford Boulevard summer theatre yesterday. Matthew Ott presented the musical comedy Seven Hours in New York as the inaugural show.
Management reserves the staunch steamer Martha's Vineyard to handle Sunday and holiday traffic on the Bass Point and Nahant line replacing the Governor Andrew, lost to fire last season.
About 500 Tremont Temple members attended a Lake Shore Home outing at Sharon Height. They traveled by a special train from South station and enjoyed a morning baseball game won by the single men, plus afternoon track events and water sports supervised by the Tremont Temple Brotherhood.
A private press tour of the Second National Bank at 111 Devonshire Street showcased its Italianate exterior and fire proof vault complex built by Remington and Sherman. The bank's 1830s lineage, Beal family leadership, and April 18 deposits of over 23 million are noted as the bank readies public inspection today and Monday June 24 for moving into the new quarters.
Large gatherings in Foresters Hall Malden vow to expand actions to Boston Revere Chelsea and Cambridge. A 40 member special committee organized into four city teams. Most Malden butchers ceased meat sales with one Jewish dealer joining. 2000 Yiddish circulars distributed with 1000 more planned. About one third of Malden families joined the movement.
T A Snider a Cincinnati manufacturer and his wife were killed when their car was struck by a fast train at a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern crossing near Harbor Creek Erie. Miss Ethel Stanton was hurt and chauffeur Harold Leet escaped with minor injuries. The Sniders were on their honeymoon.
T A Snider a retired millionaire preserve manufacturer of Cincinnati and his wife of three months were killed when a train struck their automobile near Erie Pennsylvania. Snider age 40 and his wife 40 had just married. he had remarried the widow of a Philadelphia woolen manufacturer Harry Stanton. The couple died this afternoon.
The Post runs obituaries and funeral notices for Burke Casey Conley Cooper Damon Doherty Driscoll Elbury Fletcher Frazier Hamilton Hanlon Herget Hurley Leonard Marden Martell Mulcahy McClements McDonough McGuire Nolan OBrien Peters Reid Rockfort Saul Sherman Wallin Walsh Wellman Welsh Whipple. Entries name the deceased, spouse or relatives, residence, funeral details and church or burial plans with dates from June 16 to June 20.
Members are notified of the death of life member James Hayes and asked to attend his funeral at his late residence 8 Myrtle street Jamaica Plain on Wednesday June 19 at 2 o clock am Ames A Sinclair Chief Thomas Grieve Fourth Chieftain.
Credit men from Chicago to New Orleans and San Francisco to New York gather in Boston for a four day meeting at Huntington Hall. Highlights include talks on credits two major addresses by Muench and Williams, and a busy schedule of receptions, trips, and reports.
Fire swept the Newe Castle Lumber Company mill and nearby facilities in New Portland Maine on June 17 burning for over two hours. Losses are estimated around 40000 with Bartlett's sawmill dryhouse and storehouse destroyed along with lumber valued at 30000. Newcastle Lumber Company also reported two mills lost and other buildings damaged.
Gordon's Olympia hosts a headline performance this week featuring the eccentric Italian maestro Gennaro and his Venetian Gondolier Band. The event showcases the maestro's distinctive style and a waterborne themed stage presence drawing local audiences.
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