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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
14
Bread climbed to 16 cents a loaf in Washington on May 10 as Senator Capper of Kansas introduced a resolution for an investigation into the price rise. The Senate adopted the proposal by unanimous vote.
An advertisement warns that sickness lowers earning capacity and increases debt, urging early treatment with Dr Williams Pink Pills. Mr S A Regan of Portland Maine endorses the remedy after stomach trouble and fatigue, credits improved appetite and strength to the pills. A free booklet Building Up the Blood is offered. Pills sold by druggists or by mail at 10 cents per box.
Attendees yesterday enjoyed a revue in street costumes at Keith's Theatre as Anatol Friedland's Music Land was delayed. Despite missing scenery and costumes, Neil Mack, Lucy Fields, Emilie Fitzgerald, Marie Hall, George MacFarlane, Harry Hines, Joe Morris, Flo Campbell, Sam Liebert and others delivered spirited performances. The Mi jares, Mason and Forrest, and The T. N. T. of vaudeville provided clever acts and humor with The Spider's Web thrilling the audience.
City Council appropriated 65000 from surplus for a new bridge on Ashland Street West Roxbury. Public Works Commissioner Sullivan recommended restricting loads to 25 ton box cars until replacement, citing deteriorated condition of the bridge.
An old advertisement extols Vicks VapoRub as top external treatment for croup and colds in children. It claims fast relief within minutes and overnight improvement, citing widespread use and growing sales to 17 million jars annually. It notes availability in three sizes 3c 60c and 1.20.
A melodramatic plot unfolds in Kentucky with Madge Brierly bound to moonshiner Lorey and a scheming Horace Holten. Frank Layson arrives, money changes hands, a rescue ride on a race day decides fortunes. Madge disguises as a jockey to win and save her love amid feuds and danger.
Curtiss Pictures presents a drama at Park Theatre based on Am I My Brother's Keeper with Edith Taliaferro leading an strong cast. The production features scenes in settlement houses and a bread line in Europe along with a pogrom sequence highlighting brotherly duty and social concern.
Alma Tell stars as Susan Lenox in a tense dramatic tale at the Arlington Theatre. A large delighted crowd attended last evening and praised the performance. The inaugural season under the Shubert management has proved prosperous.
Alice Brady stars in Sinners and Tom Mix in The Heart of Texas Ryan as early week attractions at the Old South. Thursday Friday and Saturday feature Blanche Sweet in The Deadlier Sex with Corinne Griffith in The Garter Girl.
The Wilde Dyson boxing film wowed Howard Atheneum audiences with a decisive English challenger outboxing his American rival. The feature runs daily at 3 50 6 and 9 pm with burlesque and vaudeville acts including the Parisian Flirts and Nekko Japs. Next week Johnny Wilson the new middleweight champion appears with Jack Sheehan in In the Gymnasium.
The management of Park Square Theatre announces the engagement of William Courtenay in Civilian Clothes will end next Saturday evening after a successful run. The cast includes Dorothy Dickinson Frances Underwood Isabel Irving Verne Atherton Floy Murray William Holde J K Murray Frank Sylvester Lloyd Neal Raymond Walburn Arthur Albertson and Harold Gray. A new play titled 1200 a Year will follow the finale.
At the St James Theatre two feature halves highlight the week. The Vir gin of Stamboul screens with desert scenes and Seymore Brown leads a company of stars and chorus. Other acts include Ted Mealey Ethel Collier Rogers and West and the Thorburn duo a news reel and Harold Lloyds Hounded Spooks. Thursday through Saturday Farnum stars in The Orphan with Seymore Brown returning for a full program and new vaudeville acts.
Arthur Pearson presents Step Lively Girls at the Gayety Theatre. The two act vehicle All Wet features Harry Shannon and Shorty McAllister leading a strong company. Catherine Crawford tops the female group with gowns, while Anna Propp and Ethel Lake stand out as leading ingénues.
The Girls from M Happyland led by Gus Mortimer and Harry Moore perform in A Night in Bohemia at the Waldorf Theatre this week. The cast includes Deborah Thornton, Daisy Mosher, Bebe Miller, Rose Hughes, Jack Slater and an eye-tickling ensemble. Burnt Wings runs until Thursday before The Million Dollar Mystery arrives.
Constance Talmadge charmed yesterday’s Fenway audience in Two Weeks, a new comedy drama. Houdini also entertained with Terror Island, while Enid Bennett and Tom Moore join the bill Thursday in The False Road and Duds. Henry Kelley continues with new singing selections.
Memorial concert on Sunday afternoon May 23 under the American Legion, honoring the boys who fell in Europe. Soprano Marie Rappold mezzo-soprano Margarete Matzenhauer tenor Signor Giovanni Martinelli and basso Leon Rothier lead with a 750-voice chorus and 110-piece orchestra conducted by George S. Donham.
Yesterday afternoon's performance of The Silent Witness drew a large Somerville audience. Elise Bartlett and Carroll Ashburn led the cast with standout performances while the ensemble supported the revival of the popular hero John Gordon.
Lewis Stone Marjorie Daw and others travel from Bear Valley California to the Saskatchewan River in Canada to complete final scenes for the photoplay The River's End directed by Marshall Neilan. The adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's Canadian Northwest novel opens Monday May 17 at Tremont Temple.
Sam Hardy Rapley Holmes Margaret Dale Minnie Dupree and Marie Carroll star in The Charm School at Plymouth Theatre. The tale of a young man who inherits a ladies boarding school develops with familiar yet ingenious plotting. The second week of the engagement opened last evening.
Paramount Artcraft photo play shown with mystery and thrills featuring Mabel Normand in Jinx. Change of programme Thursday presents Olive Thomas in Youthful Folly and Alice Lake in Shore Acres.
Georgia O Ramey shines at the Wilbur Theatre in the musical comedy Oui Madame with a lively supporting cast. The show delivers nonstop merriment through music and dance with strong chorus and ensemble performances.
Mollie Williams head of her own company performs at Waldron's Casino for the week as the circuit's only female producer. A one act melodrama The Unknown Law stars Williams with Frank Fanning, contrasting with singing and dancing aboard a strong vaudeville lineup. Williams centers the stage for much of the show.
Wallace Reid stars in a Paramount Artcraft film as a cabaret dancer who builds a jug business into success. Bebe Daniels shines as Junie with Tully Marshall and Raymond Hatton also in the cast.
Tom Mix stars in The Daredevil at Bowdoin Square Theatre in a Fox production with Eva Novak. Robert Warwick leads Thou Art the Man in a Paramount Artcraft feature. Vaudeville includes After the Game and The Lost City. Bargain night Friday and 11 oclock morning show draw patrons.
Alice Joyce stars in Dollars and the Woman a Terhune drama portraying living costs shaping family life with 200 cast. Edgar’s Hamlet a comedy film plates a long laugh. Myrtle Fiske George Lloyd headline vaudeville act. others perform songs, novelties, and a ven triloquial bit.
The Orpheum Theatre presented The Cabaret de Luxe a musical review led by Billie Richmond and Marie Parker with Maurice La Marr and The Eccentric Jazz Four. Dorothy Wahl charmed audiences while Eddie Heron and The Travelling Man drew praise. other vaudeville acts included Hes sie Barriscale in The Notorious Mrs Sands and Mary Miles Minter in Jenny Be Good.
Bessie Barriscale in The Notorious Mrs. Sands was shown yesterday at Loew's Globe. The Blue Pearl offered romance with touches of comedy and pathos. later this week Mary Miles Minter in Jenny Be Good and Mary MacLaren in The Road to Divorce will be screened.
Mary Pickford drew a capacity audience at the Codman Square Theatre yesterday in Pollyanna. Tom Mix to be seen in Desert Love for the last half of the week. Vaudeville sketches praised and the bill remains well balanced. Program will change for the closing half of the week.
Up to Wednesday the Exeter Street Theatre features Anita Stewart in In Old Kentucky Mr and Mrs Carter de Haven in Get Me Not Pathe News and Chester Outing. For the rest of the week Tom Mix appears in Desert Love with Alice Brady in Sinners plus Pathe News and Prizma color pictures.
Yesterday's programme featured Mae Allison in The Walk Off and Shirley Mason in Molly and I. Tonight brings Mary MacLaren in Rouge and Riches and Charles Rock in Romany with all star vaudeville. Wednesday includes Sesse Hayakawa in The Devil's Claim and Viola Dana in The Willow Tree. Robert Warwick appears in Jack Straw for three days with a special film attraction.
The Temple Players staged A Voice in the Dark at Malden Auditorium, delivering a striking production. The story follows a hearing impaired woman who sees the tragedy and a blind paper seller who overhears, with Adelyn Bushnell and Dwight Meade delivering notable performances.
A Boston Jesters benefit at the Copley Plaza Hotel on Friday May 14 aims to draw strong demand for tickets. The committee led by Sam Moscow with Stanley Sumner Al Somerby Geoffrey Whalen Jack Busch and others has worked hard to perfect a standout programme and many prominent theatrical figures and visiting attractions are expected to attend.
The Copley Theatre continues His House in Order this week with Mr. Jewett's farces praised on stage. A revival of The Man Who Stayed at Home is in preparation and will be staged next week, noted for long runs at the house.
The final week of Fifty-Fifty at the Shubert Theatre drew a crowded house as Herbert Carthell and his troupe complete a profitable engagement. I'll Say She Does, an A. H. Woods production, will follow on May 17.
An old Bayer advertisement touts "Bayer Cross" tablets as truthfully safe "Bay er Tablets of Aspirin" proven by millions. It lists frequent uses from colds to neuralgia and rheumatism, notes pricing in tin boxes of 12, and mentions larger packages via druggists.
Quaint characters abound in a rough but honest comedy set in hills and city life. Romance intertwines through two pretty love stories as the competent cast brings the material to life on stage.
John Barrymore leads the first half of the week at the Washington Theatre with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Later shows include Tom Mix in The Heart of Texas Ryan and Dorothy Gish in When Mary Ellen Comes to Town on Thursday Friday and Saturday.
Ada Mae Weeks Fred Heider and Jos Brown lead the company as Listen Lester concludes its run at the Colonial Theatre The next attraction on May 17 is Ziegfelds Follies in a schedule that follows.
Each package of Diamond Dyes contains straightforward directions so any woman can dye worn garments and fabrics to a fadeless color. Buy Diamond Dyes for guaranteed perfect results even if you have never dyed before. druggist has color card.
A vintage medical ad urges readers that fourteen pounds of blood exist in a healthy body and warns that slight drops are serious. It promotes Gude's Pepto Mangan as a dependable red blood builder, improving appetite and color, with physicians recommending it.
For years druggists note the remarkable record of Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root a kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician s prescription strengthening medicine aiding natural work. Swamp Root has stood the test of years and is sold by all druggists on merit. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY and mention the Boston Daily Post.
The article extols a treatment advertised by apothecaries as three grain hypnuclane tablets that boost red and white blood cells, improve color and vigor, and add weight with several months of regular use. It claims quick color improvements and rapid aid to food absorption.
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