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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1919
Page
19
Patrons enjoyed Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado as a reorganized opera company at the Plymouth Theatre last evening. The two collaborators are noted for their coherent story, strong satire, and a score that matches each lyric and scene with aptness.
A Plymouth production under Max Bendix presents a strong cast from grand opera and trained actors. William Danforth leads as the title character in a swift performance of Gilbert and Sullivan with blended voices and refined acting. The Yum Yum Blanche Duffield and Nanki-Poo Warren Proctor are praised for their performances as others like Pooh Bah James Goddard and Ko Ko Frank Moulin receive positive notes. A large audience enjoyed the show and Thursday’s Pirates of Penzance is announced with full company.
The Eyes of the World film adaptation of Harold Bell Wright's novel has become a decided success at the Shubert Theatre in its second week. A large, enthusiastic audience praised the picture, noting its literary interest, beautiful photography, and a drama filled with exciting incidents.
Barney Gerard's Follies of the Day starts a week at the Gayety Theatre with Harry Welsh and Chester Nelson leading the comedy, leading lady Gertrude Hayes and soubrette Dee Bauliere among the cast. Other acts include Gertrude Saffin dancing and Mildred Laurie as Micky, joined by Bonnie Bernice Lola Daniels Jean Baker and Matty Sullivan.
This week at the Exeter Theatre features Marguerite Clark in Lets Elope in the first half and Anna R. Nilsson in The Way of the Strong. In the latter half Alice Brady appears in Marie, Ltd and Lila Lee in Rustling and Bride with Pathe Ford weekly and comedies.
Today and tomorrow mark the final showings of the Back Bay Theatre double bill featuring Mar guerite Clark in Let's Elope and Olive Thomas in Ta ton. Thursday introduces a new two film lineup with Mabel Normand in The Pest and J Warren Kerrigan in The Best Man.
Attractive weekly bill led by Alice Eis with James Templeton in the act. Wilber Mack and company offer A Pair of Tickets, Ruby Norton and Sammy Lee debut new songs and dances, Leightner and girls, Alexander, Jane Courthope and company, Fred Berrens Words and Music. Emerson and Baldwin, Denis brothers, George Whiting and Sadie Burt also appear. latest named team praised as excellent comedians.
Jolson's one man song recital precedes his fifth week in Sinbad at the Boston Opera House with a packed audience. The Boston Bank Officers Association plans a 1200-seat theatre party on Wednesday May 21. Next Thursday at 2 pm Sinbad company members perform for U S Army General Hospital No 10 at Parker Hill Red Cross House.
The Bowery Burlesquers led by Billy Foster and Frank Harcourt present The Health Hunters at Waldrons Casino for a nearly three hour program. Joe Hurtig produces with a top cast including Marty Lemon Joe Bannon Grace Anderson Pam Lawrence Libby Hart and Babe Nazare along with a quartet of male voices. The comedy follows characters seeking health through humorous situations and witty dialogue.
Laurette Taylor began her final week at the Hollis Street Theatre in Happiness last evening. The celebrated star planned a trip to England with her husband, Manners, curtailing an extension of her Boston engagement. Boston will cherish the pleasure she gave during her stay.
Pro-Flo began its fifth week at the Tremont Theatre in Boston last evening. The popular musical attraction continues to draw steady, strong business by following the proven formula beloved by local audiences. The show is played with zest and sprightliness, maintaining continuous interest.
The Colonial Theatre closed its engagement of Ta La Sucille after a brief Boston run. The show was booked to open at Henry Miller Theatre in New York, where it will run through summer, leaving Boston by schedule.
The Woman Thou Gavest Me screens the first half of the week at Globe Theatre and is as interesting as the novel. Also showing is The Amateur Widow with Zena Keefe. The second half bill includes The Busher with Charles Ray and When My Ship Comes In featuring Jane Gray.
The Boston Theatre presents The Exquisite Thief with Priscilla Dean in the principal role as this week’s photoplay. A well arranged vaudeville bill includes the Reynolds novelty dance act Julian Curtis comedienne Master Gabriel and company new comedy act Powers and Wallace and Elford novelty aerial act. Kinograms complete the program illustrating the latest news events on screen.
Little Peggy O Moore from County Kerry Ireland bows at Arlington Theatre in Boston. Ruth Robinson embodies Peggy with charm while Ayres convincingly plays Dan Murphy in a political romance. Cast includes Mark Kent Morton Stevens Mark Elliston Bosworth and Cairns. Next week the stock company debuts Which One Shall I Marry.
Varied program impressed yesterday with a vaudeville bill led by The League of Nations and featuring Conlin and Grant in A Fool and a Flirt J Edward Lessig and Company in We Us & Company Helen Harington and La Emma and Boyds. On screen were news pictures a comedy and Mary Boland in A Woman's Experience. The last half will add Gladys-Dorothy-Sheila Jerome and Herbert OBrien-Havel and Company John F Clarke the Puppets and Mollie King in Suspense.
At Bowdoin Square Theatre Charles Ray stars in Paramount’s Greased Lightning as a versatile inventor who builds a racing car and chases robbers, with rural romance threaded through the plot. Also shown are Cecil B. De Mille’s For Better For Worse about a war era physician, vaudeville acts See What I Mean, Talking Hats, The Wise Owl, and a Sennett comedy. next week Theda Bara appears in Salome.
David Wark Griffith presents a spring repertory season at the Colonial Theatre starting Wednesday evening May 28 with two daily showings. The first program features Broken Blossoms, an original romance based on Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights, followed by The Chink and the Child and Twinkle Toes.
The Up ham's Corner Strand theater offers Theda Bara in Salome and Constance Talmadge in Veiled Adventure for the first half of the week with a popular Strand news weekly and a clever comedy. Thursday to Saturday features George Walsh in Help Help Police with Marguerite Clark in Lets Elope. Arthur Martell returns to preside at the organ.
The Columbia Theatre maintains a lively daily change of bill this week featuring a varied and interesting slate of screen productions that has proven popular with patrons.
Mary Pickford drew hundreds of friends to both performances of Captain Kidd Jr at Franklin Park Theatre. The show tells a tale of the keeper’s granddaughter in a quaint bookshop setting. The Red Glove offered another chapter and vaudeville ran four acts, praised as entertaining.
Park Theatre filled to capacity yesterday for the first showing of Charles Klein's The Third Degree adapted for the screen with Alice Joyce in the lead. The program also featured That's Good a comedy drama starring Hale Hamilton with a witty romantic plot. Joseph Florian provided two numbers as soloist and the Park Symphony Orchestra delivered an outstanding performance.
The Rainbow Girls burlesque company performed a bright wholesome show at the Howard Atheneum. A 20 member chorus, acrobatic comedian Fred Binder, Will Jennings, Harry Van and stars Anna Armstrong Madge De Voe Mabel Webb Ray Wistrop received strong notices. The vaudeville included Kerslake with educated pigs and other acts. William Farnum appeared in the film Heart of a Lion.
Lead act Full of Pep features a 10 performer troupe led by Murray Leslie and Gus Stevenson. The program includes The Gorman brothers Wheeler and Potter in A Phonic Episode Knowles and Hurst in The Long and Short of It and aerial artist La Vails. Screen offerings show the latest news pictures a comedy and Hall Caine's The Woman Thou Gavest Me. The last half bill adds Catherine Crawford and her Washing Girls Kitty and Harvey Lord and Fuller Al Tyler the Darras brothers and the photoplay The Busher with Charles Ray of Paramount.
Patrons at Central Square Theatre in Cambridge praise the current week bill. Frank Stafford stars in A Hunter's Game alongside Lila Lee in the Paramount picture Lets Elope. Vaudeville features Bernard and Scarth Jerome and Herbert the Cheyenne Minstrels Emily Darrell and Harry Rogers. Organist. The latter half of the week adds One Week of Love with Pauline Frederick and new vaudeville acts.
The Bird of Paradise at the Majestic Theatre wins fans with Hawaii themed songs performed by native musicians and a hula dance. Florence Rockwell as Luana the Hawaiian princess earns fresh praise for her impersonation.
Two feature films headline the Modern Theatre program. Vicky Van stars Ethel Clay ton in a strange and exciting tale, while One of the Finest features Tom Moore portraying the career of an ambitious young police officer.
Nora Bayes supports Salvation Army efforts at the Wilbur Theatre this week giving away doughnuts between acts of Ladies First. The Army firms up proceeds from the song The Doughnut Girl, with funds from discharged soldiers who sell it. Brigadier General Cole and Colonel Gifford assign Salvation Army workers to doughnut parties during each performance.
Gordon's Olympia bills Dorothy Phillips in The Heart of Humanity with other films featuring Viola Dana Shirley Mason Sessue Hayakawa Jim Corbett Ben Alexander and Bessie Barriscale. An exceptional vaudeville program and Olympia newsreel round out the program this week.
Leading picture Harold Lockwood in A Man of Honor headlines the St James Theatre first of the week with Cracker Your Heels, By Indian Post, and The Fashion Show. Pathe News and Evelyn Greeley appear. Five acts of vaudeville fill the bill. For three days Hart stars in The Money Corral and Harold Lloyd in On My Way. The Love Race tops vaudeville as nine performers headline.
Ethel Clayton stars in Vicky Van at the Beacon Theatre this week, a tale of a society woman and her strange adventures. The companion piece features Tom Moore in a film about the career of a young police officer.
The Lancaster Theatre runs a mixed program this week with George Walsh in Help! Help! Police! followed by Don't Change Your Husband. The second half features David W. Griffiths The Girl Who Stayed At Home and Olive Thomas in Totem.
Somerville Theatre presented Avery Hopwood's farce Fair and Warmer last night by the Somerville Players. Kendal Weston directed the lively production with elaborate staging by manager Clyde E. McArdle. Lead roles were played by Rowden Hall Winifred St Claire Rose Gordon Grace Fox J Gordon Lawrence and Edward Waide. The show runs the rest of the week with next week featuring Edmund Breese in a revival of The Master Mind through arrangements with Joseph A. DiPesa.
Patrons at Codman Square Theatre enjoyed a vaudeville bill led by Chief Zat Zam the Aztec knife thrower and magician. The program featured American Comedy Trio, Fred Rogers, and Matters and Young with songs and dances, plus a screen lineup including Cheating Cheaters starring Clara Kimball Young and The Broken Law with William Farnum.
Five hundred delegates gathered in Northampton for the Massachusetts Congregational conference at Edward's Church. Rev. Kenneth B. Welles gave the welcome and opened sessions on what young people want from the church. Speakers included Rev. Frederick H. Page, Rev. Henry Lincoln Bailey, Bertha Miller, Arthur J. Covell, Sergeant David Fiske, Lt Edwin R. Clark, Richard M. Weiser, Carle R. Hayward, William J. Alcott Jr., and Dr. Luther A. Weiglehead.
Archangel May 18 AP reports arrangements to move the 339th American Infantry to England within ten days. The 13th Engineers on the Archangel front and railway troops on the Murman front will be the last American units withdrawn from North Russia under current plans.
The Strew's Song is the leading picture this week at Scollay Square Olympia with Theda Bara in the starring role. Scenes unfold on the Brittany coast. Also on the bill is a noted film from a series causing a furor among photoplay fans showing stars in private life settings. The vaudeville acts are special and Olympia News Weekly promises unusually attractive entertainment.
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