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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1919
Page
8
A sugar-coated lesson blends with bright humor as Ruth Shepley Roberta Arnold Ade laide Prince Ferdinand Gottschalk Otto Kruer William Mason and John Flood deliver an admirably polished performance.
The Henry Jewett Players presented Nancy & Co a farce about a young English wife who secretly writes a play with a bachelor and tries to hide it from her husband. Amusing explanations ensue as the truth emerges, and the cast delivered smooth, well-filled performances to a large, pleased crowd.
Loew s Orpheum presented J K Emmett son of a famous entertainer with Mary E Ryan in Wish land plus Morley and the McCarthy sisters Elsie White Ed Rowley Amoros and Obey and Thier s dogs. On screen were newsreels a Mack Sennett comedy and Vivian Martin in The Little Comrade. A change Thursday introduces Finders Keepers with Finders Keepers and The Sheriff s Son with Charles Ray.
William Collier brings his pleasing stage presence to the Wilbur Theatre for a run of Nothing But Lies. The presentation is lively and light in texture, highlighting his comic abilities. The third week of the engagement opened last evening.
Mme Petrova appeared on the Keith's Theatre stage featuring a wide range of talent. The program included Toto the clown in his Boston debut, Van and Schenck, Alan Brooks in Dollars and Sense, Harry Breen, Marion Davis, Laughlin and West, Kennedy and Nelson, Strassell's animals, and Kinograms. The audience was impressed by her versatility in comedy tragedy vocalism and mimicry.
Dustin Farnum drew crowds at the Park Theatre in A Man in the Open about a shipwrecked youth on a Texas ranch. Alice Joyce appeared in The Cambric Mask, a tale of a girl joining night raiders. Maciste stars in The Liberator episode four with Vitagraph and Pathe Weekly clips completing the program. Mildred Piford sang two vocal numbers and Shirley Thorne performed a banjo solo.
A large Boston audience greets the film Common Clay at Scollay Square Olympia marking Fannie Ward’s strongest performance to date. The attraction includes private life glimpses of Bill Hart Helen Holmes Bessie Love Douglas Fairbanks and Geraldine Farrar with vaudeville acts and the Olympia News Weekly concluding the program.
Boston Theatre offers a week of pictures and vaudeville headlined by Peggy Does Her Darndest with May Allison in the lead. The program includes Jeveddah and acts by Olga, Valanta, Playmates, Mack Sennett's Reilly's Wash Day, Gillen and Mulcahy, plus the Russian army tale of Botchkareva in the upcoming Sunday Post feature.
Helen Hildreth the champion woman boxer headlined the Howard Atheneum show yesterday with the Aviators Burlesque Company. Charley Neil Nick Glynn Sammy Spears Jim McInerney Lillian Franklin Ethel Shutts Eleanore Revere led the burlesque comedy with a 20 member chorus while The Clevelands Claude and Marion delivered a humorous act. Johnny Wood the ventriloquist Gatchell and Duchess offered animal performance and Leonel the accordionist with Johnny Harrigan a overseas soldier singer completed the vaudeville program.
All is ready for a major gala theatrical benefit at the Colonial Theatre Boston this afternoon at 1 30 p m under the Boston Lodge of Filks. Proceeds aid welcoming returning brothers in the service of the United States. Top artists including Fred Stone George Arliss and many companies will perform with Billy B Van announcing.
Adapted for the screen from a stage drama, Out of the Fog stars Nazimova with a story set on New England shores and Caribbean shoals. The vaudeville bill features Asahi and company, William and Jordan in A Few Pleasant Moments, Morris Samuels and company in A Day at Ellis Isle, plus Arthur Martel organ selections. Elsie Ferguson headlines The Marriage Price with an all star vaudeville lineup.
This week at Bowdoin Square Theater Tom Mix stars in Hell Roarin Reform with enthusiastic crowds. Charles Ray appears in The Girl Dodger, portraying a college student in an awkward predicament. Vaudeville features the Five Famous Borsinis and others. Bargain night Friday previews Anita Stewart next week in From Headquarters.
Lieutenant Reese Europe leads the 369th U S Infantry Band in four concerts at the Boston Opera House on March 28 and 29. The renowned unit recently returned from abroad and has stirred jazz enthusiasm in New York and eastern cities.
Tremont Temple enters the third week of its engagement with Boston photoplay patrons. The program centers on a Red Cross nurse who leaves home to aid the wounded near the battlefields. Tomorrow features Northeastern Division night with many army heroes and Thursday will see AOH representatives from 100 divisions.
A new WWI era photoplay presents the tale of a Confederate veteran’s daughter living in France who remains at home despite war risks. Also shown is Marguerite Clark in Three Men and a Girl, a screen adaptation of The Three Bears with a charming lead performance. Short comedies and news pictures complete the program.
The vaudeville bill at Codman Square Theatre yesterday featured Stoddard and Hynes in The Absent-Minded Professor, soprano Eugene Emmett, Ziska and King, and Smith and Tosel, with colored comedians. Screens showed news pictures, a comedy, and William Farnum in Fighting Blood. The lineup changes Thursday to The Bondage of Barbara with Mae Marsh.
Lancaster Theatre presents The Forbidden Room starring Gladys Brockwell Virginia Lee Corbin and Francis Carpenter and The Crucible with Marguerite Clark and Harold Lockwood. Later shows include A Man in the Open with Dustin Farnum and a Norma Talmadge Eugene O Brien return in Ghosts of Yesterday.
Fred Irwin's Majesties perform at Waldrons Casino with Florence Bennett leading and billed as The Blonde Beauty Singing Star. She stars in two extravaganzas this week alongside a strong company including Roscoe Ails, Doc Dell, Lyle La Pyne, Pau Cunningham and Flo Emery in a high energy singing and dancing show.
The Uphams Corner Strand presents The One Woman with Bryant Washburn in Poor Boob and Wanda Hawley as lead female. Donald Crisp guides the comedy from Margaret Mayo Zellah Covington and Gardiner Hunting. Also shown are Alias Mike Moran with Wallace Reid and The Indestructible Wife starring Alice Brady.
Boston audiences saw two photoplays at Movern Theatre. David W. Griffith's The Girl Who Stayed at Home stars Robert Harron George Fawcett Tully Marshall and Carol Dempster in a Confederates heir story set in France during wartime. Men and a Girl adapts Edward Childs Carpenter's The Three Bears. News pictures and comedies also screened.
The Shubert Theatre shows the final week of Take It From Me with Vera Michelena leading the talented company. On March 2 Oh Look a musical comedy stars the Dolly sisters and Harry Fox, with favorable reports from other cities.
The St James Theatre offers a two part bill starting the week with Once to Every Man and Extravagance starring Dorothy Dalton. Dupree and Dupree lead a top vaudeville lineup with four other acts. The Pathe Weekly closes the show. Norma Talmadge appears last three days in The Prohibition Wife Man of Might Pathe News and new vaudeville.
The Waldorf Theatre opens the week with The Woman in the Index starring Pauline Frederick and The Honeymoon with the Variety Four and other acts. Neff and Murray perform in His Application while the Romas troupe offer aerial acrobatics. An entire bill change occurs Thursday.
Franklin Park Theatre offers an strong start to the week with Blanche Bates in The Border Legion and a merit vaudeville. The Via graph comedy provides laughs, and Hale Hamilton stars in 5000 an Hour as the week’s second half features a full program change.
Mary Nash delivers a vivid portrayal as Mary Delano in The Big Chance at the Majestic Theatre. William J. Kelly plays the leading man in this emotionally charged production.
The Mth week of Fred Stone’s engagement in Jack o Lantern at the Colonial Theatre began last evening. The show’s infinite variety defies familiarization and the withering effect of time.
The Bowery Burlesque opened at the Gayety Theatre yesterday afternoon for a week's engagement. Billy Foster and Frank Harcourt headline the comedy with Harcourt described as an eccentric rube. Dancing by Harcourt and songs by Pam Lawrence highlight the act with Grace Anderson Libby Hart among the women.
At Gordon's Olympia last evening the audience roared with laughter over Never Say Quit featuring George Walsh. The show includes 13 and the jinx adds to the hero's misadventures. An added film showcases childhood days of Fairbanks and Farrar, followed by all star vaudeville and the Olympia News Weekly.
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