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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1920
Page
6
A clear majority of the Massachusetts Senate endorsed censorship of motion pictures yesterday. The vote followed a Ways and Means committee recommendation that the bill be re introduced.
The report notes a defeat of a member with 15 to 20 tallies, accompanied by two other members recorded on a pair.
Senator Hardy chaired the ways and means panel opposing broader film censorship while Senator Walsh urged stricter rules, criticizing captions and moral scenes. Other senators backed real or local control arguments, with opponents citing existing license laws as enough and worrying about eroding home rule.
Yesterday the Gayety Theatre began a two weeks engagement of Jean Bedini’s production Peek-a-Boo featuring vaudeville musical comedy burlesque and a colored jazz band. The large cast includes Bobby Clark Paul McCullough Frankie James May Myers Nat Morton Richard Wintour Ben Grinnell Kelso Brothers Ignatz Pluto troupe Peek-a-Boo Trio Balzer troupe Five High Steppers and the Seven Musical Spillers.
Tremont Temple features The River's End drawing amusement seekers. Stars Marjorie Daw Jane Novak and Lewis Stone along with supporting players deliver competent performances in a lively program.
The roly poly Trixie Friganza headlines Keith's Theatre this week delivering a confiding, engaging stage presence in a long white fur coat and hat. The bill features Maud Muller in a topical revue, strong comedy on roller skates by Jack McLallen and Mary Carson, and acts by Stella Tracey, Carl McBride, Frank J. Conroy, the Rigoletto duo with Swanson sisters, Laura and Billy Dreyer, Don Roberts, and Charles McGoodan company in a varied program.
William Farnum stars in The Adventurer by William Fox at Bowdoin Square Theatre to strong crowd appeal. Houdini thrills in Terror Island and The Lost City draws laughter from Larry Lemon. Vaudeville features Jim and Edna Connors and other acts. Bargain night Friday. Next week Mack Sennett's Down on the Farm headlines.
Yesterday Corrine Griffith starred in The Garter Girl at Loew's Columbia Théâtre with Gladys Brockwell in The Mother of His Children. Amateur try-outs drew loud laughter and today features include Alice Brady in Sinners and Harry Carey in Overland Bed. Upcoming fare spans Mack Sennett Down on the Farm with Marion Davies April Folly. Friday Lew Cody stars in The Beloved Cheater alongside Ruth Clifford in The Amazing Woman. Saturday Taylor Holmes headlines The Very Idea with a late Goldwyn comedy and vaudeville acts.
The Fenway Theatre presents Dorothy Dalton in The Dark Mirror and Eugene O Brien in A Fool and His Money today and tomorrow. Thursday features Huckleberry Finn and a new Mrs and Mr Carter DeHaven comedy Spring. Vincent Spaulding gives exceptional violin performances.
Laxative bromide quininde tablets advertise headache relief and cold cure with germ destroying aid. Mentions signature E. W. Grove on the box and a 30c price.
Pretty girls numbering twenty plus a lively show drew crowds at the Howard Atheneum yesterday. Billy Gilbert led the principal comedy with enthusiasm while "The Last Babies" delighted the audience. Jean Shuler Ida Nicolai Belle Young Pinkey Wilbur Doris Claire Roy Burke George Wright and Harry Roberts drew applause. A vaudeville bill included Ross Wyse and company Tony the Australian midget Wai man and Berry and Dolly Ward. Dorothy Dalton in "The Flame of the Yukon" was thrilling. Next week "Grown-Up Babies" tops the attraction.
Tom Mix appears at the Boston Theatre in The Terror a Western tale of life and daring stunts. The Mack Sennett comedy Gee Whiz! entertains with five vaudeville acts and a lineup including Kellam and O'Dare Rowe and Gant Claxton and May and the Pace Brothers Rock and Drew adding feats and singing acts.
A Loews Orpheum program featured Billy Dale and Bunny Burch in The Riding Master with sharp comedy. Walter Baldwin and The Petticoat Man, Patsy Doyle and others, plus The Flapper starring Shirley Mason and Elaine Hammerstein in Whispers occupy the week’s lineup.
The Malden Auditorium drew strong crowds for opening performances of the Temple Players production. Dwight Meade starred as Paul Bart with charm and conviction and Adelyn Bushnell played the leading lady with notable grace and skill.
Reporters praise Shirley Mason for her finest screen appearance in The Flapper at Loew's Globe Theatre Boston. Also showing are The Undercurrent by Guy Empey and, later in the week, Elaine Hammerstein in Whispers and Mrs Sessue Hayakawa in Locked Lips.
Lew Yields presents an original musical comedy at the Wilbur Theatre starring Roy Atwell Victor Morley Aileen Poe Florence Webber Lulu McConnell Eleanor Griffith Alma Adairs and Eugenie Blair The show features the Ritz beauty chorus and offers a new idea in a novel manner beginning next Sunday evening.
Somerville Players stage A Prince There Was at the Somerville Theatre this week. Car roll Ashburn gives a convincing interpretation as the prince who goes forth to conquer and win in love in a charming Cohanized fairy tale style.
The Exeter program features Mary Miles Minter in Nurse Margarie and Emma Dunn in Old Lady 81 with Pathe and Ford weeklies. Nazimova presents The Heart of a Child, Eve from The Shining Band, plus Pathe weekly and Prizma color pictures.
Frederick L. Lane, general manager of the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company, introduces an enhanced timetable to speed early-season travel, allowing cottage owners to open their summer homes sooner than in previous years.
The saucy musical farce from A. H. Woods opened at the Shubert Theatre and entered its second week with a large audience. The engagement is a limited one.
A vintage ad touts Freezone as a cheap, simple cure for hard and soft corns and foot calluses. It claims immediate relief from pain and painless removal of the corn or callus with a few drops, highlighting ease and low cost.
The Copley Theatre opened the season with George Paton’s Clothes and the Woman a light witty comedy about how feminine dress shapes perception. Robena Fleming the dowdy author роль was played by Jessamine Newcombe who previously originated the part in this city.
Charles Ray wears khaki then farmer boy overalls in Paris Green with Corporal Luther Green in Paris awaiting discharge. Olive Tell stars in Love Without Question with Katherine, joined by James Morrison Peggy Parr Ivo Dawson and Mario Martaroni. A Mack Sennett comedy Let Er Go closes the bill.
Noah Beery leads as Wolf Larsen, brutal captain of the Ghost, a whaling schooner. The play pits might against philosophy as a rich idler and a rescued beauty enter the brutal skipper's world alongside Tom Forman Mabel Julienne Scott and Raymond Hatton in the cast.
Waldron's Casino hosts a talent lineup headlined by Billy Arlington noted for refined fanmaking. Juliette Belmont violinist, Louise Barlow prima donna, Ed Johnston foil to Arlington, Pall Mall trio and chorus of 30 perform. The Ballet of the Allied Nations features as this year's special attraction.
The St James Theatre screens Nazimova in The Heart of a Child this week with a Sennett comedy Let Er Go and a vaudeville segment led by The Cabaret De Luxe. The program features Chizo Davis and Chadwick Almon Nevins Knight and Gall with a live overture by the St James orchestra from Maytime. Norma Talmadge is due Thursday to Friday for She Loves and Lies The Lost City and new vaudeville acts.
Yesterday the Codman Square Theatre presented Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin with four vaudeville acts and a photoplay supplement. The program also featured a new comedy and news pictorial, and for the rest of the week William Farnum appears in The Adventurers.
Doris Keane opens a engagement at the Majestic Theatre next Monday in the film version of Edward Sheldon's Romance. Keane reprises Cavallini the famed operatic star. Basil Sydney is the bishop with Amelia Summerville Norman Travor A. J. Herbert among the cast.
Norma Talmadge heads the programme for the first half of the week at Franklin Park Theatre in A Daughter of Two Worlds. Larry Lemon provides entertainment and vaudeville features singing, comedy tall and dancing throughout the show.
Bryant Washburn in Mrs Temple's Telegram and Emily Stevens in The Sacred Flame play today and tomorrow at the Old South. Thursday through Saturday show Harry Morey in The Sea Rider and The Blood Barrier for the pictures.
The Washington Theatre leads the week with Why Change Your Wife as the main photoplay. Bryant Washburn in Mrs Temple's Telegram and Emily Stevens in The Sacred Flame appear Thursday through Saturday.
George M. Cohan's new comedy stars Benavent and opened for a second week at Hollis Street Theatre last night. The audience praised the production, calling it a pronounced success.
The Tremont Theatre opened the third week of George M. Cohan's Mary featuring a popular musical comedy run. The show drew crowds and generated strong audience enthusiasm for its lively songs and humor.
The final week of the Ziegfeld Follies engagement at the Colonial Theatre opened last night. The next attraction on May 1 will feature Lou Tellegen in Underneath the Bough.
Selwyns Park Square Theatre presents Listen Lester a musical comedy produced by John Cort in an elaborate manner. Those who have not witnessed it should seize the few remaining opportunities before it closes.
John Emerson and Anita Loos adapted In Search of a Sinner for Constance Talmadge watched last night at Gordon's Olympia and Scollay Square Olympia. Talmadge appears as a married young woman seeking thrills while her husband grows dull. The Bottom of the World, Shackleton expedition drama, adds allure with Olympia Weekly comedy and five-act vaudeville.
Gordon's Central Square Theatre Cambridge presents Nazimova in The Heart of a Child plus five acts of vaudeville for the first half of the week An entire bill change will occur Thursday and run through the rest of the week.
Clara Kimball Young wears a wide variety of gowns in The Forbidden Woman. The film screened last night at Upham's Corner Strand and will be shown again today and Wednesday.
George W Hobart adapts Susan Lenox at the Arlington Theatre continuing for a fifth week. Alma Tell leads a large capable cast as local audiences grow more interested in the unusual production tonight.
Morris Schwartz and his Yiddish players stage A Farworfen Winger a Forsaken Nook at the Boston Opera House tomorrow night. The four act idyll is authored by Perez Hirschbein, a leading Yiddish playwright.
Norumbega Park in Boston begins its 24th season with outdoor theatre screenings. Huckleberry Finn is shown daily in the open air theatre and will run through the week, then replaced by The Idol Dancer.
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