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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1916
Page
9
Edward H. Crosby notes that A Brazilian Honeymoon was staged at the Wilbur Theatre with a favorable reception. The show features a rhythmic score and bright lines, though the book by Edgar Smith is only moderately comedic and the plot remains somewhat unclear.
The review praises a bright snappy score with waltz tempo and lively dances. It highlights strong vocalists Margaret Namara Frances Demarest and Dolly Castles plus Clifton Webb and Hal Forde, noting comic bits from a bibulous secretary and two Teutonic bankers.
The production features a banker and Baron John H Golds worthy with Ray mond and Caverly as German financiers. Many others come and go, filling the varied background with acceptable performances. The show is lively and well staged with bright, competent, and attractive people.
Bowdoin Square Theatre offered a lively program featuring Phil Ott and his Musical Follies company with 17 performers. The bill included Gorman and West satire, Jeanette Childs, Tom Bullock, Jane Grey in The Waifs, Fatty Arbuckle in His Wife's Mistake, The Iron Claw episode with Pearl White, The Law of Injustice Lubin drama, The Crash, Chickens Vim comedy, and other features keeping the audience entertained.
Boston playgoers witnessed Theodore Friebus deliver a commanding Disraeli in Louis N. Parker's drama at Castle Square. The performance portrayed the statesman with wit vigor and realism while supporting roles by Herblin Olsson Barnicoat and the Craig company drew strong praise. Next week Clyde Fitch's comedy Girls comes to Castle Square for its first Boston run in six seasons.
The Modern Theatre presents the Fox production Sins of Men with Dorothy Bernard and Stuart Holmes in lead roles and a strong supporting cast. Sessue Hayakawa stars in Alien Souls at Paramount Pictures, with Matt and Jeff comics and shorter releases also shown.
Park Square Theatre opened its fourth week of The Princess Pat last evening to a large audience. The comic opera, with Victor Herbert music and Henry Blossom book and lyrics, is praised for its merit and well-assembled cast delivering strong performances.
Sam Bernard, famed German dialect comedian, headlines at B F Keiths Theatre yesterday afternoon with a modern monologue and fresh quips on politics and current events. Dorothy Regel stars in The Girl at the Cigar Stand, plus acts by Roy Harrah's Skating Girls and a varied bill including Le Hoen and Dupreece in singing and sharpshooting.
Joe Hurtig presents Social Muards led by the Dancing Demons George Stone and Etta Pillard at Waldron's Casino. The cast includes Billy Baker Billy Foster Jack Pillard Marty Seaman Jessie Hyatt and the Jewell sisters with a 39 girl chorus. Burlesque Busy Little Cupid features lavish scenic effects and costumes promising harmonious color and artistic brilliancy.
The Mary Miles Minter film The Fairy and the Waif starring Percy Helton Will Archie and about 94 characters is included on the bill for school groups. The program also offers unusual wild animal pictures Hearst Vita graph news pictorial and a comedy reel. Mae Conklin violinist is heard in new selections and a series of artistic dances by Hazel Budd, a Boston artist, is featured.
Nance O Neil headlines Monday and Tuesday at the South East End Theatre presenting The Witch, Sar dou’s The Sorceress, set in Mexico. Howard Estabrock and Jean Sothern perform The Mysteries of Myra, while Lee Hill and Gene Rogers bring The Leap, a railroad drama, to the bill. The orchestra overture drew warm applause.
The Colonial Theatre will reopen tomorrow with a picturization of Helen Hunt Jacksons Ramona praised for its compelling narrative and modern photography. After tomorrow there will be two performances daily.
The Folly Girls Burlesquers with 20 chorus girls and Celtic comic George Milton headline a strong show at the Howard Atheneum. Lew White Ed Shoben Billy Carlton and Percie Judah star in routines with Laura Houston Jennie Delmar and a Mexico march chorus. Amateurs and circus acts cap the bill each Friday under Sam Cohen.
Ethel Barrymore proves a revelation to Boston audiences in Our Mrs McChesney at Hollis Street Theatre returning to light comedy after dramatic roles. A strong supporting cast includes William Boyd Donald Gallaher W H St James A Romaine Callender Thomas Reynolds Hugh Dillman Frank McCoy James Morrison Harvey Denton Mildred Barrett Gwendolyn Piers Anita Rothe Dorothy Walters Louise Worthington Carree Clark Sue Ann Wilson Emma Salvator e Dorothy Allen.
Hazel Dawn and Billie Burke headline the Park Theatre program on screen with their films The Feud Girl and Peggy An American girl of vivacity. The bill also includes Selig Tribune current events and Sydney Drew in Sweet Charity A musical segment features operatic selections by Alessandro Alberini and Mildred Efford with a Krauth symphony overture.
Marcus Loew presented an Orpheum Theatre program headlined by Charlie Chaplin in his new photo farce The Floor Walker. Mae Francis and Clarence Jones performed comic opera numbers, with Margaret Haney Al Weston dancing and singing. Sandy Shaw, Japanese foot jugglers, Palo sisters, and the Haragnimna brothers rounded the bill alongside Douglas Fairbanks in The Good Bad Man.
Marie Doro stars as Nora a nurse maid in The Heart of Nora Flynn. Pauline Frederick returns as Madge in Zara The Spider and Audrey and Israel Zangwill’s The Moment Before. Special acts include Mme Dorva and Professor De Leon plus soprano Evelyn Stuart on the program.
The St James theatre offered a strong vaudeville and film program. George Carson and Jake Willard performed as German comedians in Around the Bulletin Boards. Keough and Nelson presented Vaudeville Table d Hotel. Fen tell and Stark sang and danced. Arsone and De Osta teased with the harp and girl act. Horn and Ferris staged A Venetian Flirtation. Charlie Chaplin starred in The Floor Walker, reputedly his funniest yet. Florence Lawrence headlined Elusive Isabel as the feature photo.
The Boston Theatre this week headlines Harold Lockwood and May Allison in The Come Back with Margaret V. McDonough The Frisco Girl and Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker in a new comedy. Also present are four high class Vaudeville acts in Concert Vaudeville Leona Thurber Harry Madison Coakley Hanley and Dunlevy Ziegler sisters and Kenney and a company of 380 singers and dancers.
Gordon's Olympia presents a varied bill this week with Undine drawing crowd attention and Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker providing comedy. The Dayton family and 12 European acrobats offer novelty alongside Porter and Sullivan singing and talking, plus Williams and Watkins, Sadie Fondelier on the slack wire, and Italian comedian William Sisto.
Franklin Park Theatre presents Triangle Pictures The Lamb with Douglass Fairbanks The Iron Claw and Pathe Weekly. Four vaudeville acts include Ruel and De Maris novelty artists Kate Rooney Three Lyres and the Chung Wha quartet with a Chinese quartet.
Paul Armstrong’s Romance of the Underworld a one act drama with 17 speaking parts opens at the Globe Theatre heading the bill. Grace Hazard offers Five Feet of Comic Opera along with Putnam and Lewis and Sidlow. Charlie Chaplin in The Floor Walker shown with other photoplays and the Pathe News.
The Birth of a Nation resumes its extended Boston engagement at the Majestic Theatre now in its 31st week with popular prices and a full symphony orchestra. The Exeter Street Theatre week features The Eternal Grind and Let Katy Do It with Mary Pickford and Jane Gray, plus The Love Mask and The Half Million Bride with Cleo Ridgely, Wallace Reed, Hamilton Revelle, and Marguerite Snow. Burton Holmes travel films Bray cartoons and Sidney Drew comedies accompany the program.
In Chicago on May 15 three jurors were chosen for the William Orpet murder case. The courtroom drew farmers anxious to return to fields and Zionites opposed to the death penalty. Orpet sat with his parents as 12 jurors were seated, while the Lambert family watched. Judge Donnelly may rule on access to 60 love letters between Orpet and Marian Lambert, believed crucial by the state.
John Kenney twenty one of Brookline was seriously injured when a team of horses bolted and threw him from his wagon. He was at work in Chestnut Hill as a driver for a contractor when the incident occurred.
Nine persons are known dead and about twenty injured when the Beacon Journal building in Akron collapsed following a dynamite blast in an adjacent excavation. Two people are missing and believed trapped in the ruins.
The 6:10 crash of a restaurant in Akron buried nine bodies and wounded nineteen others as dynamite blasts near a new building disturbed the foundation. A crowd of over 10,000 gathered while Ohio National Guard aided police in crowd control. Names listed include William C. Lawson, Blanche Kline, May Lawson, and others.
Yesterday afternoon at Scollay Square Olympia the programme featured Aerial Macks in a novelty aerial act LeRoy and Harvey in Rained In Marie Shaw sing Nash Troupe club manipulation Colonel Jack George black face routine Six Violin Misses and Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker The Fox feature Slander with Bertha Kalich an all star cast plus Burton Holmes travel shorts release No 2.
Dolan, a driver for a Jamaica Plain express company, was arraigned in the West Roxbury court yesterday charged with cruelty beating a horse. He was fined $20 after agents of the M. Ss. F. C. A. testified the lash caused a flow of blood.
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