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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1913
Page
8
An ad touts Croxone as a universal remedy for backache kidney trouble bladder disorders and rheumatic pains. It claims rapid action cleansing poisons uric acid and impurities from blood and promising refunds if it fails in any case.
Christie MacDonald showcases her Herbert Opera Sweethearts at Colonial with George Evans. Boston Buffalo Jones performs at Tremont. The Fourth Estate screens at Castle Square. Other bills accompany the lineup.
Christie MacDonald topped the Colonial Theatre bill with Victor Herbert's Sweethearts. The plot follows Sylvia a princess unknown to her lineage who loves a rake and later an heir reveals her true status, ending happily. Herbert pushes toward grand opera with notable orchestration and several arias. The cast includes Tom McNaughton Ethel Du Fre Houston Thomas Conkey Lionel Walsh, and a lively Mother Goose routine.
The Majestic Theatre opens the final week of The Bird of Paradise. The play has drawn much comment for its strange story and the notable acting and elaborate spectacular effects.
Emma Trentini appeared in The Firefly during the Shubert Theatre's closing week, drawing enthusiastic crowds that echoed the praise seen in earlier performances. The engagement has sustained strong audience zeal each night.
Mystic garden stage at Keith's features statues that move when voices are heard. Don Martinez and Beryl confront a theft and drowning in a tropical set with Amphitrite restoring the scene as Rodo returns. A vaudeville bill follows with Fogarty stories, Ragtime Soldier Man, Cadets de Gascogne operatic numbers, and dancing acts.
Boston Theatre hosts George Evans Honey Boy Minstrels for a week with a large, lively audience. The company showcases old time circle routines, monologues by Evans, and new comedy bits led by Vaughn Comfort John King Sam Lee and Jim Doherty. A forthcoming revival of The Old Homestead with E L Snader as Joshua Whitcomb follows.
The first week of The Blindness of Virtue at the Park Theatre has been eminently successful. The plot has set in motion a train of argument affecting almost everyone and the company of English players is exceptionally praise worthy.
Tremont Theatre Buffalo opened a sequence of motion picture shows by Buffalo Jones. The noted hunter, a true sportsman, practices cruelty free methods and demonstrates capturing and training wild animals to be harmless for public viewing.
Audiences at the National enjoyed a powerful vaudeville program led by Campbell McCulloch in a gripping eight-character portrayal by Frank Mayne. The arson plot follows James Warner as prison authorities probe the nonpayment eviction and foster a tense confession. Other acts include Phina and her Picks, the Four Melodious Chaps, Gertrude Fiske, and Edison Talking Pictures.
Castle Square Theatre presents The Fourth Estate a contemporary drama about a bribed judge and a truth seeking editor. Craig leads a strong cast Wheeler Brand played with realism while Miss Keener and Miss Scheener deliver notable performances as heroine and judge with solid supporting work. Next week the company plans The Comedy of Errors.
The piece follows mythical adventures of two American actors in Mexico and the ensuing escapades in an agitated republic. Joe Hurtig's Taxi Girls present a lively vaudeville program at the Gaiety Theatre with acts including the Farrell Taylor Trio and others.
An advertisement urges readers to use Hay's Hair Health to restore grey or faded hair to its natural color and banish dandruff. It claims rapid results and mentions a free 50 cent or 1 dollar package offer with Harfina soap, endorsed by druggists worldwide.
The Globe offers a lively week of acts led by Bootblack Four and John West with his singing wolf Mike. Mabel Whitman Dusky Dandies perform, Barto and Clark present In Sixty-five, Barbettoes aerialists perform, Ford and Hyde rural playlet, Fred Welcome hand balancer, and Pathe Weekly program. Chocolates for women patrons offered on select matinees.
One round of jollity at the Howard Athenaeum yesterday featured the Progressive Burlesque Company. Performers and acts including Flo Cushman May Belmont Anna Belmont Catherine Crawford and many more drew enthusiastic reception. the Belford and Rathskeller Trio acts and a Beatrice Turner singing festival were highlights.
Waldron's Casino offers a burlesque week with Bert Baker and the Bon Ton Girls. A Peculiar Predicament features Baker as Adam Jellyfish and Eugene Jorge as Jeremiah Noodles with Edith Hamilton and Edith Graham as wives. Strong specialty acts and lively music elevate the performances to audience roars of laughter.
W H Scott the St Jerome postmaster reports that more than two hundred habitual drinkers have been cured by Renova a secret tasteless remedy. He swore affidavits to Renovas work and urged families to obtain a sample from the Renova Co. at 204 Broadway New York for proof and a free trial.
London May 5 Miss Nina Boyle and fellow militant suffragette Miss Anna Munro were arrested while attempting to hold a meeting in Hyde Park. Boyle had accused the government of being composed of cads and cowards in a recent Actresses Franchise League speech.
The Rev Samuel G Babcock archdeacon of Massachusetts diocese and suffragan bishop elect will likely be consecrated mid June. Bishop Lawrence announced at a clergy meeting in St Paul Cathedral rooms that arrangements should be completed by June 20.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre showcased the Cheyenne Days circus with cowgirls lasso acts and a cowboy quartet among vaudeville features. Frank Dobson entertained with wit and song while the Bartletts offered aerial gymnastics and Karlton and Klifford performed a transparent novelty. The Elray sisters roller skated and Taboldi the Russian boy violinist impressed, as Maurice Ritter sang Leo Feit's hits and Kinemacolor nature pictures played. Amateurs will perform Thursday night and a big cabaret show is planned Friday.
St. James Theatre presents Bert Leslie's Players in a farce titled Hogan's Visit as the headlining feature this week. The Glendale acrobats Jones and Grant, Hl en Wood, Frank and North, and Sam Watson's farm yard comedy troupe complete the bill, offering a variety of laughs and entertainment.
More than 500 men and women armed with stones clubs and red pepper boxes clashed with police near Reed Street wharf. The riot lasted two hours and was not quelled until two riot calls were sent to City Hall.
Ten disturbers including six women were taken into custody after a scuffle with police. Two officers were nearly blinded by pepper spray as rioters beat a male participant. The incident began when pickets attempted to interview strike breakers at the Spreckels Sugar refinery where workers had demanded higher pay and better conditions for over a week.
The assailant escaped but turned on the men who confronted them, knocking them down and fleeing. Several hundred onlookers gathered, mainly foreign women, drawn by cries, including many wives of strikers, within a short time.
Joseph A Williams was held to the grand jury without bail for the killing of Leon Lafayette La Count after the coroner's inquest in Chicago. Williams an art student shot La Count when he attacked him over his attentions to Mrs La Count. Testimony showed La Count spent two days with his 17 year old bride before duty on the Panama Canal and alleged improper conduct occurred on one occasion before the husband expected to return. To spare the widow embarrassment the courtroom was closed during Mrs La Count's testimony about her last meeting with Williams.
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