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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1918
Page
8
The Wilbur Theatre postpones the premiere of the comedy High and Dry to next Thursday afternoon May Day with a holiday evening show added. Written by Lewis R B Ely, the play is presented by W P Orr and J M Welch after favorable pre metropolitan Boston reports.
The Plymouth Theatre in Boston hosts the final week of the 23 week run of The Man Who Came Back. Laura Walker and Arthur Ashley lead the melodrama with strong audience enthusiasm. William Blaisdell joins as the carburet proprietor.
The Majestic Theatre continues to run Hearts of the World with undiminished popularity. A long line of purchasers forms and audiences express high enthusiasm. The mammoth spectacle may stay in Boston for many weeks and could be seen multiple times with growing enjoyment.
Marcus Loew presented a two film bill at the Columbia Theatre featuring William S. Hart in Selfish Yates and Count Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection with Pauline Frederick. The finale includes Clara Kimball Young in The Reason Why and Hart in The Return of Draw Egan.
At Loew's Orpheum Theatre yesterday the Old Homestead Eight performed songs while Jackson and Wahl offered A Breeze From Musical Shows. Eddie Foyer the man with 1000 poems Annette Dark Thornton and Thornton and the Winton brothers provided variety acts. On screen Charlie Chaplin in The Adventurer and The Man Hunt with Ethel Clayton. Thursday vaudeville heads William Solar with Norma Talmadge in De Luxe Annie.
Scol lay Square Theatre features Western star W S Hart in The Hell-Hound of Alaska as the top attraction. The vaudeville lineup includes Karmure Duo Japanese foot juggling and ladder workers Long Nose Town send Wilbur and company in A Smart Aleck Six Royal Hussars Cook and Stevens in The Chinaman and the Coon Rudi Delong Trio sensational cycle artists Olympia News Weekly and more.
The Seal of Silence stars Earle Williams and Grace Desmond headlining the first half of the week at the Old South Theatre with Roy Stewart in Wolves of the Border. Later in the week Dorothy Dalton stars in Tyrant Fear, a rugged Northwest photoplay, alongside an all star Triangle cast in Who Is to Blame an American Japanese drama.
Exeter Street Theatre presents Pauline Frederick in Resurrection Constance Talmadge stars in Up the Road with Sallie William S Hart plays Selfish Yates and Mabel Normand appears in Joan of Plattsburg Pathe News Weekly and comedies round out the bill for the week.
Hobart Bosworth leads an excellent vaudeville bill at Keith's Theatre this week presenting a one act version of Jack London's Sea Wolf with Bosworth as Wolf Larsen. Also features Jack Wilson and associates Ben Bard Gladys Moffatt in an impromptu revue and Florenz Ames Adelaide Winthrop in Caught in a lamb. Delores Vallecita shows Indian leopards. The Burt Earle Company with banjoist Burt Earle offers musical comedy with three society girls. Columbia Victor Barto Clark Donald Roberts the Levolos and news pictorial round out the program.
A triple bill at the Lancaster Theatre featured Gladys Brockwell in Her Own Mistake for the first Boston showing, with an underworld locale. May Allison starred in Social Hypocrites, and Bessie Barriscale appeared in Borrowed Plumage. The second half offers Norma Talmadge in Ghosts of Yesterday, Dorothy Dalton in Tyrant Fear, and Leena Owen in Madame Bo Peep.
The Globe Theatre showcases Mary Pickford in The Little American with Douglas Fairbanks and Chase Chaplin in The Floorwalker. The three leading stars headline the same program for the week, drawing crowds to the venue.
Phil B Adams heads St James Theatre program with eight actors including Herman Myers. The bill features Wood Melville Phillips in songs and comedy, Saxton Farrell in The Troubles of an Actress, Pesce Duo harpist and singer, and Bicknell the model baker. Screen features News Pictorial comedy and The Reason Why with Clara Kimball Young. Thursday headliners Miroslava Serbians in a music revue. Chaplin in The Adventurer and The Mating of Marcella with Dorothy Dalton.
At the Casino this week manager Waldron stuffs a high calibre show headlined by Phil Ott with Jimmy Hunter Ed Healey Jack Witts William Lynch and Nettie Nelson plus Kitty Mitchell Gladys Parker Lou Randall and the Carnival Trio. Travesties Lil O New York An Operatic Uproar and The Pajama Parade feature charming chorus and strong scenic costumes.
The Park Theatre features Theda Bara in The Soul of Buddha acting and writing the script while she headlines with the film. Sidney Drew appear in Pay Day with Mrs Drew and the duo are popular in New England. The program also includes Red Cross and local-interest Pathe Weekly segments with Anthony Guarino and the Park Symphony Orchestra performing a popular overture.
The Howard Atheneum offered a burlesque program headlined by the Victory Girls performing a military spectacle Over the Top with the American flag. The audience showed enthusiasm as the troupe drilled like veterans. Comedy was provided by Fred Binder and Billy Spencer with a cast including Marie Barlow Harry Van Anna Armstrong Bert Leighton and a chorus. A vaudeville portion followed with the Kelps Welton and Marshall White and Gray Gregory and Butler and Geglia and Rossia in varied acts.
The Crisis starring Winston Churchill leads the Bowdoin Square bill for the week with patriotic themes on American history and Lincoln. Also shown Playing the Game with Charles Ray, five vaudeville acts, It Pays to Exercise, Animated Weekly, and Woman in the Web. Friday adds extra acts. next week The Belgian will be shown.
Mollie Williams presents her Own Show at the Gayety featuring Ambark Ali and Billy McIntyre as comedians. Earl Sheahan acts as straight man while Michelina Gardner, Florence Kelly, and Billy Gilbert contribute vocal and comedic numbers. The act includes a Nell Gilbert dancing specialty that stops the show and a lavish, tasteful production with novel musical numbers.
John McCormack opens a Mechanics Hall concert series to aid the Knights of Columbus war fund. Boston hopes to raise $10,000 with about 4500 in attendance. The famed tenor seeks to perform for troops in France, making Sunday’s show potentially his last in Boston for some time. Ticket sales at 1100 Boylston Street report half sold and rising demand.
The principal picture at Gordon's Olympia this week is American Aristocracy starring Douglas Fairbanks. Vaudeville includes Rhoda Nichols singing comic turns, the Celestial Duo Nevins and Gordon, Adolph Mons and company novelty dancing, Olympia News Weekly, and other good pictures.
This week's Fenway Theatre features Earle Williams and Grace Desmond in The Seal of Silence and George Walsh in Brave and Bold. The final three days present William S. Hart in Selfish Yates with Claire Anderson in Mile. Paulette.
At the Washington Theatre during the first half of the week Dorothy Dalton stars in Tyrant Fear a rugged Northwest panorama while William Desmond headlines Old Hartwell's Cub a sobering photoplay. Thursday to Saturday features Earle Williams and Grace Desmond in The Seal of Silence and an all star cast in Who Is to Blame.
Mae Murray stars in Bride's Awakening at the Boston Theatre this week. Cody and Ashton Dearbolt support, with a vaudeville lineup including Fracey and McBride and a comedy plus current news reels completing the program.
Yesterday at the Beacon Theatre Mar Guerite Clark starred in Prunella a simple tale of a guarded girl kept in the house by three aunts. Jack Pickford appeared in Mile-a-Minute Kendall as a wild son who is tamed after disinheritance. Short comedies and news reels were also shown.
Paragon Park gears up for a new season led by manager George A. Dodge. The Palm Garden cabaret program is expanded and will run through May 30 and over the next weekend, promising bigger attractions than before.
The play My Four Years in Germany at Tre Mont Temple continues to draw attendees. It presents the diplomatic side of the great conflict, offering a revealing look at treachery and intrigue, with two performances daily.
May 27 report from West Tisbury notes Governor McCall will present the McCall shield of honor to Gay Head on Saturday July 13. The committee of island citizens met in Agricultural Hall to launch plans for what organizers call the island’s biggest celebration.
The committee voted to ask Governor McCall to combine Shield of Honor day with Governor's day on the island. Events include a large service, a parade, illuminations, searchlights, and aeroplane mock attacks, with escorts from naval and coast guard units and a Newport band.
A committee was appointed to handle financing for all necessary expenses with Frederick W. Smith of Oak Bluffs as chairman, Ulysses W. Vyhew of West Tisbury as secretary, and members High Sheriff Walter H. Renear of Tisbury, B. T. Hillman of Edgartown, Ernest L. Flanders of Chilmark, L. L. Vander hoop of Gay Head, and Oscar Curtis of West Tisbury.
The Massachusetts Public Safety Committee seeks civilian volunteers to supervise distribution of free ice in congested Boston areas during summer. Two men are needed on specified days between 10 AM and 4 PM to act as representatives of the food administration’s ice committee. Apply at State House Room 167.
Henry M. Bowen a former Department of Justice agent was arraigned before Judge Morton in federal court on charges of making false claims against the United States. He was secretly indicted and held on 300 bail after allegedly overcharging the government by about seven dollars. Bowen pleaded not guilty.
The Tremont Theatre opened the Jerome Kern and Edgar Allan Woolf musical Head Over Heels starring Henry W. Savage and Mitzi. Savage handpicked a strong cast and promises three matinees this week with especially pleasing prices on Wednesday and Decoration Day.
Manager Cornell presents a mixed program at Franklin Park featuring The Blindness of Divorce with an all star cast and Charlie Chaplin in A Dogs Life. The vaudeville lineup includes Gerard's monkey acts and Rogers and Sampson. The Trail to Yesterday starring Bert Lytell closes the week with a full vaudeville change.
A bill of vaudeville and motion pictures played at Codman Square Theatre yesterday. Acts included Lewis and Norton in Bits From Musical Comedy Guham and Newell The Variety Boys the Edith Delbridge trio of singers and The Calendar Girl in artistic posing. A new photoplay ran with news pictures and a comedy. An entire change comes Thursday with the patriotic film spectacle For the Freedom of the World.
At the Modern Theatre in Boston Marguerite Clark appeared in Prunella marking her first screen version of the play. The program also featured Mile-a-Minute Kendall with Jack Pickford, plus short comedies and news pictures.
The item lists numerous death notices and funeral details from Boston area towns including East Boston Medfield Winchester Brookline Danvers Somerville Roxbury Dorchester and Cambridge. It includes names ages addresses service times church and interment details and notes like auto cortege relatives invited and omit flowers where noted. The notice ends with a request from Lafayette Ind for copies of papers.
Fenwick Court No 3 M C C F members invited to a memorial mass for deceased members at St Josephs Church Chambers St West End on Memorial Day Thursday May 30 at 9 oclock Relatives and friends invited Mary E Reiley R S Geo W Boylen C R
Dunster Lodge No 220 I C C F Brothers attend the funeral of Frederick A Richards on Tuesday May 28 at 3 30 pm Meet at cemetery gate Coolidge Ave Cambridge at 3 pm Noble Grand Robert McKinley Jr and Rec Sec WM Walton announce the service indicates meeting details and officers
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