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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1916
Page
9
A New Haven reader Antonio Felce describes seven and a half months of pimples and itching, then relief after trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He purchased supplies and credited the products with healing, noting a free sample offer and a world-wide sale.
An advertisement claims thin individuals fail to gain from meals due to weak digestion. It promotes Sargol as a harmless tablet taken with each meal to boost absorption and red blood cell carrying power, promising 3 to 5 pounds weekly and a money back guarantee.
Gaby and Folks at Colonial presents Stop Look Listen a diaphanous story of an actress seeking fame who travels to Honolulu where she becomes a star under the same manager she served as a chorus girl for. The Boston audience saw a nearly identical cast to previous Colonial shows.
A bustling Irving Berlin score drives a lively stage show featuring Gaby Deslys as the star chorus girl turned lead. Harry Fox, Joseph Santley, Boyle, Dixon, and a large troupe of dancers perform in changing costumes with witty soft shoe routines and comic numbers amid amorous plots and fashionable gowns.
The chorus presents a varied, color filled performance not resembling automatons. The show is brisk and energetic, with a lively sequence of features. It runs for a brief engagement.
The Cherry Blossoms company headlined The Two Mr. Melons with Roy Clair making his Howard debut to warm reception. Virginia Kelsey Celeste Barker and many others performed in a varied bill including The Yellow Peril and comedy acts. Sam Cohen hosts Friday amateur nights. Sunday concerts continue.
Park Square Theatre in Boston closes its run of Twin Beds with a lively farce about three couples in a New York apartment house. The show runs about two and a half hours and draws strong audience favor. Margaret Illington stars in Henry Arthur Jones' The Lie, with seat sales starting this morning.
Robert Edeson dominates the photo drama at Fenway in the roller of a man protecting a woman amid mistrust and a murder accusation. The program includes the Fenway Trio and Sidney Drew's Number One, with the Hearst Vitagraph news weekly also shown.
Franklin Park Theatre drew a capacity crowd for a strong opening season show. Nance O Neil led the photo play Souls in Bondage while The Iron Claw with Pearl White drew praise. The late week feature is The Lure of Heart s Desire with Edmund Breese in the lead.
The Shubert Theatre last evening entered its second week of Alone at Last with a crowded turnout and lively praise for the score by the Merry Widow composer. The principal company is nearly ideal led by John Charles Thomas and Marguerite Namara with a strong supporting cast including Leety Yorke Beth Lydy Roy Atwell Harry Conor Mabel Weeks Elizabeth Goodell Edward Mulcahy Olga Britton Ann Delmore Marian Folger and Lillian Horn.
The annual million dollar spring fashion show headlines Keiths Theatre this week with 32 models across five scenes. Emilie Lea leads a glamorous lineup while gowns from Boston modistes outshine New York pieces. May Tully devised the production telling a Cinderella style story of a shop girl’s day of dream clothes.
The final week of the play Justice at the Plymouth Theatre drew praise for its candid handling of a serious subject. The cast, led by John Barrymore, O P Teggie, Henry Stephenson, Lester Lonergan, and Cathleen Nesbitt, received strong notice for their performances. May Irwin’s 33 Washington Square will follow, with seat sales opening this morning.
Gaiety Theatre hosted the Golden Crook Extravaganza opening yesterday with Billy Arlington as lead comedian. Frank Dodson Alva McGill Eleanor Cochran and the Pall Mall Trio supported in the two act revue The Midnight Club featuring 20 chorus girls and a dancing novelty The Ballet of the Seasons.
Scollay Square Olympia Theatre presents Virginia Days an elaborate 10 person Colonial era show headlining a diverse program. The Carl Eugene troupe performs acrobatics, The Old Homestead tour gains cheers, Welling Levering’s comedy bicycle, Del Vicchio and company in Fired From Yale entertain, Bissett and Bestry provide eccentric acts, and the feature film Fighting Blood with William Farnum showcases a rugged Kentucky tale. Musty Suffer serial and other first run features round out the program.
The Decatur Four comedy quartet tops the bill this week at Gordon's Olympia Theatre. Catherine Hays and her company perform The New Profession with other acts including the Todi acrobats Leon's ponies and Delisle and Dupont. A Vitagraph photo feature also draws strong interest.
Edward Abeles, famed Boston visitor, stars in Self Defence at the Orpheum a pantomime crime drama where he portrays a dumb Italian boy on trial proving his innocence. Also shown is The Great Price with Mabel Tal iafero and Pernikoff and Rose imperial ballet. plus Sid Lewis Stevens Brunelle Zimmerman Caf frey and others.
Tremont Temple opened a week long engagement of The Christian featuring Hall Caine's tale as dramatized by Viola Allen. The film plays daily from 1 to 10 30 p m with an added Saturday lecture by B B Baumgardt on Napoleon Bonaparte at 4 30 p m.
The Craig players close the last week of the melodrama Under Cover at Castle Square Theatre with Mr. Carleton and Miss Barnicoat in the leads. Next week’s bill features Little Lord Fauntleroy with Henrietta McDaniel in the title role, her first Castle Square appearance in several seasons.
Bowdoin Square Theatre offers a lively program this week with The Human Musical Revue delivering comedy and song led by Jack Westerman Bob Jewett Helen Carr Baron Magri Gene Boudry and a chorus of dancing maids. The bill also features World film Stars and Stripes in Mexico, The Iron Claw episode five, vaudeville act The Four Pallettes Tag Day Claire and Edwards, If I ever get back to Birmingham, and other features including The Secret Room A Bit of Tan and Bad Man Bobs. Moving picture attractions share the program with amateur diving swimming contests and the Mutual Masterpiece The Devil starring Bessie Barriscale starting Thursday amid new subway car service aid to patrons.
Waldron's Casino at Charlie Waldron's runs all week with Blutch and Cooper's Globe Trotters. Frank Hunter leads a colored Ital ian comedian act aided by Will Lester and Charles Brown. Notables include Irving O'Day Don Trent Robert Algier and leading woman Frankie Rice with Edith Mirfield Madge Darrell. The show includes In the Trenches and Flying Weavers aerial act. Florence Davenport Sarah Hyatt also star in ensemble.
William Todge stars in Fixing Sister at the Majestic Theatre, his seventh week in the comedy drama of New York life. The article notes his past successes The Man from Home and The Road to Happiness and likens his John Otis role to earlier popular characters. Anita Stewart receives numerous proposals and fan gifts, reflecting public interest.
The Boston Theatre opens the week with The Supreme Temptation starring Antonio Moreno and Dorothy Kelly as a surgeon and his former sweetheart. A delicate operation looms as a twist threatens his wife, yet the surgeon prevails. Vaudeville showcases The Girls of Kokomo, Bernici brothers in A Night in Venice, and more acts with a Thursday program change.
Park Theatre showcases the film adaptation Audrey starring Pauline Frederick from Mary Johnson. The bill also streams Man and His Son with Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, a tale of conscience, romance, and redemption. Included acts feature Sydney Drew comedy, Selig Tribune, and a North Sea torpedo destroyer sequence. Alberini the baritone and Costello draw crowds, with Krauth’s novelty overture through new lighting effects.
The Modern Theatre opens with two first run features: William Fox presents Robert Mantell in A Wife's Sacrifice, with Genevieve Hamper as his assistant. Hazel Dawn stars in The Saleslady, a department store tale of a young woman fighting for survival in the big city. Shorter comedies and organ recitals round out the program.
The Wilbur Theatre Boston continues Hobson's Choice in its third week, with an extra matinee added last week. The entire cast delivers distinct, memorable performances led by Molly Pearson A. G. Andrews Alice Seymour Viola Roach Harold De Becker Marie Hudspeth Whitford Kane Agnes Dortree Barnett Parker Robert Forsyth Harry J. Ashford and Walter Fredericks.
The St. James Theatre features The Best of Friends in the first half of the week along with DeWar's circus, Will Davis, and Louise Bauser among other acts in a varied bill at the downtown venue.
Pauline Saunders performs new songs while Nieman and Kennedy join with parodies and the Box Car Duo. The acts present fresh material in a lively program of music and humor.
Arthur Havel and company present Will Cressy’s Playmates at Globe Theatre with Little Caruso and company in a musical spectacle. Clark and McCullough perform in new songs and comedy, Duffy and Mon tague offer musical bits, and the Two Kanes appear in a perch act.
The Exeter Street Theatre presents Mae Murray in To Have and to Hold and Mme Olga Petrova in The Heart of a Painted Woman for the first half of the week. A Burton Holmes travel feature and a Sidney Drew comedy follow. Dustin Farnum stars in Ben Blair and Ethel Barrymore in The Final Judgement for the latter half, plus a Bray cartoon.
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