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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1918
Page
6
Boston premiere of Over the Top adapts Arthur Guy Empey’s book with Empey pictured in the film. The drama emphasizes patriotism with Western Front combat scenes and a night trench raid, featuring Lois Meredith as the heroine and a cast including Maurice, Morrison, Swayne Gordon, Donaldson, and Blythe.
The Columbia Theatre presented an all photoplay program with Dorothy Dalton in Tyrant Fear and The Whip a tale of society and a race horse. Thursday will bring William S. Hart in The Disciple and Lest We Forget.
The Society for Sale with William Desmond and Gloria Swanson screens at the Old South Theatre where a fashion shop manikin plots entry to high society. Miriam Cooper also stars in Woman and the Law. Thursday through Saturday offers Belle Bennett in The Lonely Woman and Edith Storey in Treasure of the Sea.
Robert Warwick leads The Mad Lover at Fenway Theatre for the first three days. The Guilty Man, adapted from A H Woods, features an all star cast with William Garwood in the lead. Olga Petrova appears in The Life Mask and Gladys Leslie in The Little Runaway on Thursday.
James J. Morton opens with comic patter. All for De mocracy features Washington Lafayette Lincoln Grant Lee and Joan of Arc as spirits advising President Wilson. Lillian Shaw shines in celebrity impersonations and Mrs Thomas Whiffen delights in Where There's a Will There's a Way with Foxy Grandma slang. Bert Fitzgibbon and Reine Davie provide songs and recitations alongside Seabury and Shaw and a Belgium trio.
Fred Irwin presents The Majestics in a new show at the Gayety Theatre with a comedy by Roscoe Ails Lyle La Pine Doc Bell and George Leon. An octet performs a local act and Paul Cunningham and Florence Bennett sing Song land in a Broadway cabaret style setting.
Majestic Theatre crowds Sunday night and last night show strong interest in D. W. Griffiths Hearts of the World now in its fifth week in the city. The film blends a great world backdrop with French life before the war and realistic trench fighting, praised for its exceptional players and convincing battle scenes.
Yesterday at the Beacon Theatre Pauline Frederick plays Katusha in Resurrection a peasant girl doomed to bondage after a transgression Mabel Normand stars as an asylum girl in Joan of Plattsburg with dreams of becoming a modern Joan to save America
The Orientals Burlesque company led by Leo Stevens staged The Doll Shop at the Howard Atheneum with witty acts and a strong vaudeville lineup. Dolly Clifford headlined alongside Norine Holmes Vida Sopoto Kitty Mitchell Joe McCoy and others. The program also featured Randall Australian sharpshooters Grant Gardner Fuller sisters Wells De Veau Seldon and Bradford and Harry Smirley.
Alexandra Carlisle and company perform The Tragedy of Nan by John Masefield at Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon in The Country Cousin program. Notable cast includes Alfred Taunt Beatrice Noyes John Harwood Charles Mackay Clara Blandick Louise Prussing and Albert Tavernier with Harwood directing the stage.
Scollay Square Olympia presents William Farnum in Rough and Ready this week. Billy West performs a new comedy. The vaudeville bill includes Hippodrome Four in Dinglespiel's Night School, Pantzer contortionists, Dellmere and Lowry, Hawaiian Sextet, Jenks and Allen, Noack in an equilibrist act, Olympia News Weekly and other good pictures.
The Wilbur Theatre continues to draw crowds as Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew star in Keep Her Smiling presented by Richard Walton Tully. Audiences enter its fourth week in Boston and renew acquaintances with Polly and Henry through this spoken comedy.
Pauline Frederick delivers a powerful performance as Katusha in Resurrection at the Modern Theatre. The program also features Joan of Plattsburg with Mdhel Normand, plus news pictures and short comedies, in a varied bill.
The Colonial Theatre resumed the third week of its engagement with Toot Toot. Producer Henry W. Savage, familiar to Boston theatregoers, presents this musical comedy with lyrics by Berton Braley and music by Jerome Kern. Cast includes Louise Allen Zoe Barnett Edward Garvie Billy Kent Louise Groody Harry Fern and James Stevens.
The Dolly sisters draw a full house in their first film venture The Million- Dollar Dollies. The story follows two dancers engaged to wealthy men who seek to match their fortunes through effort and a mysterious palace adventure with an Indian prince. The program includes vaudeville acts and a film comedy.
The Park Theatre presents Kitty Gordon in The Purple Lily with an all star cast and strong acting. Bert Lytell follows in The Trail to Yesterday a tale of revenge. William S Hart shines in The Reformed Outlaw as a special attraction. Sunshine comedy and Pathe Weekly war news update the program. Annette Lavick receives a warm audience response after two song performances.
Franklin Park Theatre manager Frank Date showcases Mary Garden in The Splendid Sinner at the suburban playhouse. The bill includes Watch Your Neighbor with Embs and Alton Klein brothers Archie and Gertie Falls and William and Mitchell in June Time. Later in the week Francis X Bushman and Beverly Bayne appear in With Neatness and Dispatch with Flirting With Danger. A full vaudeville change and new Pathe pictures follow.
The Henry W. Savage musical Head Over Heels with Mitzi is set to return to Boston at the Tremont Theatre on Tuesday evening May 21. The production follows a string of Savage musical hits first popular in Boston including King Dodo Prince of Pilsen Woodland and others.
Alexandra Carlisle stars in The Country Cousin at Hollis Street Theatre for a sixth week. The comedy draws large audiences, aided by an excellent supporting company including Alfred Lunt Beatrice Noyes Donald Gallaher Eleanor Gordon and Charles Mackay.
Park Square Theatre began the final week of the engagement of Lady Chetwynd in Her Country. The wartime comedy pleases with patriotic spirit and frequent applause. The supporting company is capable.
The Orpheum in Loew’s presented Merian’s highly trained dogs headlining A Wedding Day in Dogville. The bill featured Jones and Sylvester, Lillian Mortimer, Stuart and Woods, Gordon Barker and Lucky, Goldie and Mack, plus News Pictorial and The Biggest Show on Earth on screen. Thursday the act changes to the musical comedy Olives with Sinclair and Dixon and a 10 person company, and Clara Kimball Young in The Reason Why on screen.
Manager Waldron announces a week of novelties at the Casino titled "'The Sporting Widows." The program features 28 young women in costume to display their charms, led by Harry Cooper with others including Drena Mack Savo Frank P. Cook Jack Strouse Billie De Rex and Ruth Denice. Stage settings and electrical effects enhance the show.
The Henry Jewett Players stage Charley's Aunt at the Copley Theatre with strong laughs from Lord Fancourt Babberley in disguise as the Brazilian aunt. The perennial farce wins repeat audiences and enters its third week starting next Monday evening.
The Washington Theatre showcases The Lonely Woman with Belle Bennett and Treasure of the Sea with Edith Storey this season. The Lonely Woman follows a bank cashier’s wife battling hardship after being jailed for another’s embezzlement. Treasure of the Sea updates a pirate tale for modern audiences. Thursday through Saturday feature Roy Stewart in Paying His Debt and Miriam Cooper in Woman and the Law.
Tremont Temple continues to attract large crowds for the picture “My Four Years in Germany” by James W. Gerard. The documentary is praised for revealing the causes of the war and German government intrigue, offering a distinctive view beyond typical war coverage.
The speed speed show So Long Letty returns to the Shubert for a new engagement. Charlotte Greenwood leads the original principals including Sidney Grant May Boley and Walter Catlett as audiences fill every performance with enthusiasm.
The Man Who Came Back at the Plymouth enters its 20th week in Boston with continuing strong public interest and no sign of waning appeal for this absorbing drama.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre offered a strong bill with William B Hart in The Tiger Man set during the gold rush days in the West, plus The Guilty Man and Fatty Arbuckle in Out West. Full Speed Ahead from The Woman in the Web, Animated Weekly, and vaudeville acts Randall and Smith White and Alger Plunkett and Romaine Shaw and Beatty Edna and Paul. Thursday night amateurs and Friday bargain features are announced.
The Boston Metropolitan Chapter of the American Red Cross announces a single benefit performance of J. Hartley Manners wartime play Out There on Tuesday evening May 21 at the Boston Opera House. The cast features George Arliss George M. Cohan Mrs Fiske Julia Arthur James K Hackett Helen Ware James T. Powers Beryl Mercer O P Hoggie George McFarlane Eleanora de Cisneros Burr McIntosh Laurette Taylor H B Warner Chauncy Olcott and more.
Gordon's Olympia screens Mr Fix It with Gordon's Olympia, a Billy West comedy, and a vaudeville lineup including Rose and Homans, Grace Hanson in the Telephone Tangle, El Cota, the Tuscania brothers, and the Olympia News Weekly with world news from four corners.
The St James Theatre opened with Nat Nazarro and company in A Variety of Varieties leading a bill that also featured William K Saxton and company Cloaks and Suits Tabor and Green Lee and Cranston in Here and Over in Ireland and Burns and Jose juggling. On screen were the latest news pictorial two comedy acts and the photoplay Mr Fix't with Douglas Fairbanks. The entire bill changes Thursday.
At Castle Square Theatre this week the feature is the film version of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird. Bryant Washburn in Twenty One and a Tate comedy also play to strong crowds with vaudeville acts and the Castle Square Orchestra. On Thursday Wallace Reid appears in The House of Silence Madge Kennedy in The Danger Game and a Mack Sennett comedy. Free garage storage for patrons arriving by car is noted.
The Lancaster Theatre shows The Claim starring Edith Storey and Western Blood with Tom Mix. The full bill will be altered on Thursday.
Through the kindness of Selwyn an company and Lacy Chetwynd the Thursday evening performance of Ha Country in which the distinguished English actress is starring at the Park Square Theatre will be tendered as benefit performance to the Women Oversea Hospitals. The entire proceeds for this evening will be donated to the New England fund of this organization in charge of Mrs. Benjami F. Pitman. Choice seats may be obtained at the box offices or from members of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association at Park Square Theatre prices.
Exeter Street Theatre showcases include Elsie Ferguson in The Lie Little Zoe Rae in Danger Within Douglas Fairbanks in Mr. Fix It Mae Marsh in The Face in the Dark plus Sidney Drew and Strand comedies.
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