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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1920
Page
15
Edward H. Crosby notes George M. Cohan’s versatility in stage works. The feature reviews praise Cohan’s ability to blend light musical comedy with higher dramatic aims. The brief mentions two shows, Mary at the Tremont and Genius and the Crowd at the Hollis, opening last evening.
Review notes a two act stage piece where Philippe Trava, a violinist, faces obsessive fans and public pressure. The American businessman uses a ruse to rekindle Trava's passion, revealing love between Mira Van Ness and Trava. Supported by a capable cast led by George Benavent and Frank Otto, the production blends earnest drama with music and occasional misfired comedy.
Lester plays to Park Square Theatre crowds in John Cort’s musical comedy Listen Lester as actors such as Anna Mae Weeks Ford Heider Ruth Mabee and Joe E Brown energize the troupe. The production appears set to linger with a new Boston audience enjoying the familiar show.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre presented Should a Husband Forgive and The Luck of the Irish as top attractions this week. A former lover of Mary Carroll enters the plot while the jungle tale The Lost City stars Juanita Hansen along with other vaudeville acts and bargain Friday features.
Temple Stock Company presented The Return of Eve by Lee Wilson Dodd at Malden Auditorium yesterday. Dwight Meade as Adam and Miss Bushnell as Eve delivered standout performances making the show a pleasing entertainment with fresh takes on familiar figures.
Yesterday Loew's Columbia Theatre showed Anita Stewart in The Combat and Vivian Rich in Would You Forgive. Tonight Frank Mayo headlines Burnt Wings and The Blue Pearl with an all star cast. The week continues with vaudeville and pictures.
Closing week at the Majestic features Howdy Folks a Blue Ridge region play with melodrama romance and pathos. The Ouija Board an A H Woods production is announced for next Monday May 24 at the Majestic.
The Ziegfeld Follies opened a two weeks’ engagement at the Colonial Theatre last evening. The house was crowded and so was the show with a wealth of acts. Performances were heard as well as seen and praised for their splendor and variety.
The Ziegfeld Follies arrives in Boston later than usual, a high finish show led by Marilyn Miller and Eddie Cantor with Bert Williams and the Dooley brothers. Urban scenery and a Tulip Time set piece bolster a swift, continuous pageant of song and dance praised for beauty and spirit.
The Deadlier Sex with Blanche Sweet screens at St James Theatre this week alongside Starry Lemon in School Days. Vaudeville features Arthur Geary from the New York Hippodrome and Salvation Molly. Also Joe Wood Pleano Brigham Hatter brothers. Mary Miles Minter headlines Nurse Marjorie Lost City No 10 this Thursday Friday and Saturday with new vaudeville.
An appealing program at Fenway Theatre yesterday mixed Bryant Washburn in Mrs. Temple's Telegram and Elsie Janis in The Imp. Helen Barr sang well. Back Bay patrons anticipate Thursday's screening of Why Change Your Wife featuring Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan.
The Exeter presents Geraldine Farrar in Flame of the Desert and Vivian Martin in Husbands and Wives on the first half of the week, plus Pathé and Ford weeklies. The remainder showcases The Idol Dancer with Bessie Barriscale in The Notorious Mrs Sands and Prizma natural color pictures.
John Barrymore stars as the unfortunate physician in the film version at the Strand Upham's Corner Theatre. The feature opened last evening for a three day run with Arthur J. Martel, noted as New England's highest salaried organist, performing selections on the Strand organ and O Henry's Ransom of Mack completing the program.
Houdini stars in Terror Island and Eve in Exile at the Old South this week. Enid Bennett appears Thursday through Saturday in The False Road and Do Lore Cassinelli in Tarnished Reputations in photoplays.
Enid Bennett stars in The False Road and Wallace Reid appears in Excuse My Dust as the week opens. For Thursday through Saturday the program features Terror Island and Free in Exile with an all star cast.
Norumbega Park in Greater Boston begins its 24th season on Saturday May 22 under manager Carl Alberto. Movies will be shown each afternoon and evening in the large open air theatre with a variety of innovations featured.
At Keiths Theatre yesterday the United States Jazz Band headlined after Miss Helen Keller’s sudden illness sent her to Corey Hill Hospital with acute rheumatism. The navy group impressed, supported by eight other acts including Bill Bailey Lynn Cowan Estelle Davis and Daisy Nellis in piano and singing routines plus comic skits by Hallen Hunter and Wilcox and company.
Bert Lytell stars in Alias Jimmy Valentine at Gordon's and Scollay Square Olympia Theatres this week. The photoplay shows Jimmy, a safecracker turned gentleman, released from Sing Sing and pursued by Detective Doyle, with a happy ending. The bill includes a new short comedy and five acts of vaudeville.
Boston theatre circles prepare for the annual Actors Fund benefit at the Colonial Theatre next Friday afternoon. The event is under the Associated Theatre Managers of Boston and Daniel Frohman. Eight stage managers will supervise under Alexander Leftwich. Elsie Ferguson and John Drew will travel from New York to participate.
This weeks Gayety Theatre attraction features Harry Hastings and Dan Coleman in a vaudeville program. The act includes Phil Peters Marjorie Manderville Hazelle Lorraine Olive Le Compte Alma Bauer and a finale tableau titled Freedom for Ireland. Extra turns by Hazzard and Spellman Fred Dale Olive Le Compte and the duo McKissick and Kelly accompany the bill.
The second musical attraction of the season at the Somerville Theatre scored and hit yesterday. Oh Lady Lady is a musical comedy with popular song and dance numbers and a broadly appealing theme. An augmented cast supported the regular Somerville troupe.
Mme Marie Rappold soprano Mme Margaret Matzenhauer mezzo soprano Signor Giovanni Martinelli tenor and M Leon Rothier bass will join an orchestra of 110 pieces and a 70 voice chorus for the memorial concert Sunday afternoon May 23 under American Legion auspices at Mechanics Hall.
George M. Cohan's Mary began its second week at Tremont Theatre last evening. The new production is praised as an immediate success, powered by a very able company whose performance stands out as its chief strength.
The three act musical play I'll Say She Does was staged last evening at the Shubert Theatre. Avery Hopwood wrote the book with music and lyrics by B G DeSylva.
A light musical farce features Herb Warren whose wife Dodo draws many male admirers. Bobo Brown returns from Japan to stage a private supper to learn what Dodo says at such gatherings. A French waiter, two other women, and a mixup drive the plot, then resolve in the usual way. Cast includes Ernest Glendenning Juliette Day Roland Young Elizabeth Hines Marion Vantine Robert Fischer Charles Hampden Donald MacDonald. chorus costumes and dancing charms, with Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters among the audience.
The Arlington Theatre enters another week of the Susan Lennox engagement as Alma Tell draws distinct traits for each period of the character. The production is well mounted and the company strong, drawing steady patron interest.
A vintage advertisement touts Danderine as a simple buy that stops hair loss and dandruff after use. It promises new hair life with vigor brightness and thickness and notes immediate visible benefits.
Gertrude Lamarre six-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Anselma Lamarre of 29 Main Street Sanford Maine was saved from illness by her mother using Dr True s Elixir The letter from Mrs Lamarre praises the elixir s effects on worms constipation and stomach disorders noting her daughter has not had fits since and encouraging others to use the pure herb laxative available at all dealers
An advertisement cites aged readers noting improved vitality from Sulpherb Tablets for constipation and dormant liver issues. A testimonial from Mrs Ellen A Bennick of Cambridge Massachusetts endorses the product as a laxative and tonic. The formula combines sulphur cream of tartar and herbal extracts and is sold by druggists for 60 cents per tube.
Johnny Wilson the world champion middleweight is greeted with enthusiasm at the Howard Atheneum where he stars in In the Gymnasium with a sparring partner and Jack Sheehan. The manager G R Lothrop Jr also announced the Follies of Pleasure Burlesque with Clyde Bates Manny Besser Annette La Rochelle and Ruth Barbour among others. Next week the Girls From Joyland will headline.
Yesterday at the Boston Theatre the screen drama Just a Wife directed by Eugene Walter drew audiences with a study of passion and sacrifice in a love triangle starring Roy Stewart Kathryn Williams and Leatrice Joy. The Larry Seaman comedy film followed with constant gags and a lively vaudeville lineup featuring Horace Wright Rene Dietrich Burns and Kissen Loy and King Overholt and Young and Joe Dealy and sister.
The Plymouth Theatre in Boston hosts The Charm School with a stellar cast including Margaret Dale Minnie Dupree Marie Carroll Sam Hardy and Rapley Holmes. Following this week, A Question of Time by Emily Ann Wellman will be produced by A H Woods.
Many hundreds attended the Franklin Park Theatre yesterday to see Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring John Barrymore. The film is described as one of the most interesting productions, with notable vaudeville and humor.
Ethel Clayton leads a well received showing at the Modern and Beacon Theatres with a homely tale of a convent girl’s arranged marriage. Harrison Ford and C H Geldart headline supporting roles while Elsa Lorimer Boyd Irwin add strength. The Sagebrusher showcases Roy Stewart Noah Beery Marguerite De La Motte Betty Brice and Arthur Morrison in California and Montana filmed drama.
The River's End opens at Tremont Temple and follows John Keith facing murder charges. He impersonates Royal Mounted Officer Conniston after Conniston dies during a two year pursuit. Keith wins trust, falls for Conniston's sister, and actors Lewis Stone with Marjorie Daw lead the cast.
William S. Hart stars as Black Deering in a rugged western tale. Jordan leads a bandit gang and pressures one more heist. Deering is framed but escapes to a Mary Brown cabin. He frees deputies, kills the traitor, and earns freedom by heading to Mexico. Anna Nilsson shines as the leading woman. Hart’s Pinto pony enhances many thrilling scenes.
Albert Golden and David Stone of Paragon Park Co finalize plans for the opening of Paragon Park and its Palm Gardens on Saturday May 29. The Paragon Park dance hall now operates every Saturday night.
An anti fat treatment claims to curb cravings for fatty foods and dissolve fat while restoring appetite and digestion. A testimonial from Mrs. L. Holly of Imperial California reports dropping from 205 to 152 pounds in seven months. The tablets are advertised as the best selling obesity medicine sold by druggists.
Physicians and eye specialists pre scribe Bon-Opto as a safe home remedy for eye troubles and to strengthen eyesight. Sold under money refund guarantee by all druggists.
Alice Lake appeared yesterday at Gordon's Cambridge Central Square Theatre in James A Herne's Shore Acres. The vaudeville program features Jed Dooley and company Renn and Cavanaugh Edith and Eddie Adair the Lampinis and George Alexander. A new programme Thursday Friday and Saturday will screen Anita Stewart in Old Kentucky and a new vaudeville act.
An advertisement argues most indigestion stems from thin blood and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic. It features testimonials from Joseph Willett of Augusta Missouri and offers a free booklet What to Eat and How to Eat. Pills priced 60 cents per box and available from Schenectady based Dr Williams Medicine Co.
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