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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1916
Page
6
A new play The Scapegoat had its first performances at Castle Square. Carlyle Moore, following Stop Thief, stages a markedly different work aimed at popular appeal.
A financier pursues easy money while his past is revealed in a largely mystery driven plot. The work balances seriousness and comedy with real characters and a vivid central motive.
The piece argues electrics outperform horses and gas trucks in urban delivery. Horses hinder speed and mileage amid traffic. gas trucks thrive on long routes but falter in stop start city conditions. Electric vehicles endure door to door use, suffer minimal wear, and offer longer life and lower operating costs.
The audience admired a clever, mystifying drama featuring Edmund Breese as David Halifax. Mor rison and Miss Dickinson shone as young lovers while a banking ensemble including Friebus Ernst Ormonde and Pierce impressed. Barnicoat as the opera singer and Royston as Mrs. Kine also earned praise.
A Shubert Theatre program last evening offered a wartime documentary titled How Britain Prepared. The film contrasts battlefield scenes with Britain’s defense preparations including volunteer drilling ammunition making trench work and united efforts of artillery mounted infantry field telegraph signaling aerial bombing and a North Sea fleet defense.
Colonial Theatre readies for a summer season reopening with The Amber Empress. Irene Pawlowska sings the prima donna role while Percival Knight leads comedy. Boston favorite Vivian Wessell also stars alongside a cast including Marie Horgan, Colin Campbell, Andrew Higginson, and others.
Lexington Park presented the open-air drama A Fight for Honor with Dorothy Pembroke delivering a notably pleasing performance. The show runs again today and tomorrow, as Lexington Park adds a workingman's model farm and new aquariums to its attractions.
A bill at the Scollay Square Olympia Theatre yesterday featured Mexican Herman and company magicians Vic Trola in mimicry Wolf and Brady eccentric dancing Martha Washington Sextet Russell and Evans in a character change offering and the Gash Sisters gymnasts. The Fox feature Sins of Men with Dorothy Bernard and the Keystone comedy 4 Lovers Lost Control plus several other short features were shown.
Victor Moore stars in The Clown as both circus harlequin and devoted husband and father. Gypsy Ballet is a hit in vaudeville. Davis and Stafford draw laughs, Granville and Mack perform Italian street music, Harrah and Mulray roller skaters, Niblo and Spencer and Valle musicians complete the bill.
The Norumbega Park show features The Old Homestead quartet with old and new songs. Elsie Gilbert and her five girls sing and dance. The Three Arthurs present a bicycle act. The Todd Nards perform head and hand balancing with Alf Ripon renowned as a ventriloquist.
The St James Theatre yesterday presented the Marine Band from the German steam ship Vaterland as the feature. Wallace Galvin performed a legerde main act and Imogene Comer returned in a singing act. The bill included Lee Beggs and company in The Old Folks at Home, the Kanes, The Mysteries of Myra installment, a Keystone comedy, and the Pathe news.
Yesterday began the summer programme at the Globe Theatre featuring photo-plays from leading producers. The bill, changed three times weekly, opened with Jackie Saunders in The Shrine of Happiness The Iron Claw Keystone comedies Pathe news and other shorter releases.
William Fox feature Blue Blood and Red headlined at South End Theatre yesterday with George Walsh and Doris Pawn. The bill also included The Mysteries of Myra The Cage Man and The Devil's Image.
The first half of the week at Exeter Street Theatre includes Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Jeanne Dore and Hazel Dawn in The Fetid Girl a story of the South. Burton Holmes Kleine travel pictures and Sidney Drew comedies will also be shown.
Waldron's Casino hosts The Broadway Girls this week with Kitty Mitchel Kitty Forsythe Anna Heldelle Kitty McGowan Mabel Kelley Al Martin George Banks Don Trent and the Carnival Four plus the chorus. They perform The Wrong Count Tabasco and We Us and Company.
Tremont Temple offers continuous moving pictures this week from 1 to 10 oclock featuring a Mary Pickford film and other attractions. The program promises unusually interesting entertainment for patrons seeking a full day of cinema.
Keiths Theatre presents a diverse bill with Harry Carroll and Anna Wheatson star in musical numbers. William Gaxton and company perform A Regular Business Man, while The W Langdons present Johns New Car. Claire Rochester leads a prima donna turn, Oklahoma Bob Albright, Bee Ho Gray and Ada Summerville with Onion the dancing horse, Claire Vincent and company in The Recoil, Mabelle Sherman and Arthur Uttry songs, and Witt and Winters in hand balancing feats.
Mme Petrova headlines the new five part romance The Scarlet Woman at the Boston Theatre. The week features the Preparedness Revue with patriotic songs and novelties. Concert vaudeville includes Alton and Allen Betty Washington Lightner and Alexander and a monkey comedy with Napoleon the Great and Sally the mate.
Theda Bara's East Lynne drew more audience attention at the Modern Theatre yesterday, while Paramount presented Destiny's Toy with Louise Huff. Shorter releases and the Mutt and Jeff animated comics were also shown.
Accessibility to excursionists and motorists plus unrivaled cuisine and entertainment make Pemberton Inn the top choice for a delightful dinner or luncheon in ideal surroundings.
The Medford boulevard summer theatre inaugurated its season with large crowds for both performances of Breaking Into Society. The attraction surpassed typical summer musical comedies in appeal and drew significant audience numbers yesterday afternoon and evening.
Nantasket resort Villa Napoli drew the largest Sunday crowds in its history as seasonable weather arrived. Attendees flocked to the seaside venue over the past two days, marking a record turnout.
An American advertisement extols a British internal treatment for catarrhal deafness and head noises. It instructs readers to mix Parmint with hot water and sugar, drink a spoonful four times daily, and claims quick relief by reducing Eustachian tube inflammation and ear pressure. It urges sufferers to try the formula to avoid deafness.
A testimonial style ad urges thin people to gain 5 to 8 pounds in two weeks by taking one Sargel tablet with each meal. It claims Sargel converts consumed fats and starches into usable nourishment, stops waste, and adds lasting flesh. It notes safety, efficiency, low cost, and money back guarantee through local druggists.
A clinic style advisory on fighting colds early to avoid complications. Eckmann's Alterative is promoted as a nonnarcotic first aid to bolster resistance and relief symptoms, with claims of 20 years use and lasting relief when paired with proper care.
The Strouse and Franklyn burlesque company opened at the Howard Atheneum with the Colonial Belles, led by Percie Judah Laura Houston and Jennie Del mar. George Milton and Billy Carlton drew laughs while a 24 girl chorus danced and merried. Turner brothers, Thomas Trio, Big Chief Eagle Horse and others performed in song, dance, acrobatics and equilibrist acts.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre features Violet Mascotte's Merry Maids led by Felix Martin Frank Beaumont and John Dillon. Rose Black Dolly Clifford Bobbie Kingston and others entertain while Beatriz Michelena appears in a well received moving picture. Also shown are The Iron Claw episode Pearl White and films A Child of the West Millstones Ham Takes a Chance and Kalem comedy.
Paragon Park enjoys record crowds this season with the Palm Garden dining hall full nightly. The cabaret features Edna Leader and the Fielding sisters as leading entertainers drawing excursionists and motorists to the popular resort.
Havas dispatch from Saloniki reports Bulgarian forces in the Florina and Monastir area have begun an advance, signaling a new push on the front.
Park Theatre presents Billie Burke as star of Gloria's Romance fifth episode The Gathering Storm. Annette Kellermann appears in Neptune's Daughter with Sissy Fitzgerald in The Winksome Widow in four acts. Also shown are The Schemers Metro Sidney Drew comedy and Selig Tribune. Mme Calvert leads the musical program.
The Orpheum Theatre features Marshall Hall Boston dancer leading a local talent troupe in woodland era dances. Maurice Samuels and company perform A Day at Ellis Island. Edwards Helene sing a skit In the Twilight. Bruno Kramer European gymnasts Tasmanian Trio also appear. Photo segment shows a Keystone comedy Pathe News and Douglas Fairbanks Reggie Mixes In.
Park Square Theatre continues its run of The Princess Pat now into its third month. Audiences give hearty endorsement and generous patronage to the merrily staged show.
The centennial celebration of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in South Boston will be marked by a reception and banquet in the church parlors on West Broadway. Rev. James Sheerin will preside with speakers including Secretary of State A. P. Langtry and Dean Edmund Rousmaniere, along with city officials and clergy from other denominations.
The Boston City Council ordered the Finance Commission to study how other cities handle budgets to find a faster approach than this year’s rushed segregated budget. Councillor Coleman supported a standing board of budget examiners to ease council workload.
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