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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1915
Page
6
Edward H. Crosby reports on the Colonial Theatre premiere of Watch Your Step. The crowd hailed it as a riot of ragtime with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The reviewer notes strong syncopation and entertaining spectacle from start to finish.
An advertisement features Thomas Williams of 195 Franklin Street Cambridge recounting long standing stomach and digestive troubles. He credits Plant Juice with his full recovery after trying many remedies, and notes the product is sold by the Liggett Drug Company at the Washington and Avon Streets corner store.
A critic notes that a composer working in a rural or national style, whether paraphrasing grand opera or creating original blends, delivers a lilting tempo that affects even the most conservative audiences.
H B Smith is credited with the plot but Vernon Castle and Irene carry the show with exceptional dancing and comedy. Frank Tinney and Harry Kelly provide wit while Elizabeth Brice and Charles King sing and dance well. Edna Bates impresses in costumes and voice as a large youthful chorus enhances the lively program. The curtain hides a possible $2,000,000 legacy question but the audience cares mainly about color, music, and mood.
Creatore with a 50 piece band received an ovation. Holbrook Blinn stars in Owen Davis drama The Family Cupboard, praised for powerful emotion. A two reel comedy drew loud roars while See America First scenic picture won approval. Madame Wilhemina Wright Calvert, Boston’s soprano soloist, was warmly greeted.
Theda Bara headlines this week at the Modern Theatre in a photo drama version of Car men. The film adapts the opera tale with departures to suit the screen and features a bull fight and a death defying horse and rider plunge. Also shown are other photo-plays and a fine musical program.
The Boston performance enters week six of On Trial at Tremont Theatre as a crowded house favorite. The play’s gripping story and swift, sympathetic narration drive its emotional appeal alongside convincing acting from the cast.
Elsie Ferguson returns to Boston starring in Hubert Henry Davies dramatic study Outcast at Hollis Street Theatre. The four act problem play on modern life mixes seriousness with light comedy and follows Davies prior works with a more weighty tone.
A review of the stage drama Outcast highlights Geoffrey Sherwood’s descent into ruin after unrequited love and an affair with Miriam. The plot centers on love, social conventions, and the resolve that marriage offers happiness, with strong performances by Ferguson as Miriam and Powell as Geoffrey.
An all star vaudeville bill at Globe Theatre yesterday featured Green McHenry and Dean in a new singing act, Walter Percival and company with Come Across, plus Kane and Herman, Hal Stevens Company, the Equilo brothers, the Diamond from the Sky, and the latest Pathe News. Election returns will be read from the stage tonight. Thursday offers a special organ recital by famed organist Mr Webster.
The Schwartz company presented The Broken Mirror at St James Theatre yesterday amid strong reviews. Marie Doro headlined The White Pearl with other vaudeville acts, a Diamond from the Sky film, Pathe News, and an election returns reading on tonight's stage program.
Evelyn Nesbit with Jack Clifford headlines the vaudeville bill at B F Keith's Theatre in Boston featuring two new dances The Evelyn Fox Trot and The Clifford Trot plus two new songs Tumble in Love and When You're In Love With Someone Who's Not In Love With You Also on the program Eddie Leonard minstrel act Julian Rose Marie Nordstrom and more including The Pathe News with cartoons fashion and war views The engagement lasts one week.
The Grand Opera House announces a return to melodrama starting Monday afternoon November 8 with Electrocuted at 6 A. M. A stock company led by William A. Grew and Gwendoline Pates will present a new play each week after years of movie popularity diminishing live melodrama.
The second and final week of the Trilby revival at the Shubert Theatre opened last evening to strong attendance. Eight principal performers from England and America headline the cast, including Phyllis Neilson-Terry and Rose Coghlan, supported by 30 associates in a production adapted by Paul Potter from Du Maurier's novel.
Balzac’s The Magic Skin starring Everett Butterfield and Mabel Trunnelle opens the Boston Theatre week with a Faust like tale of a skin that grants wishes but devours the owner’s soul. Other first-half features include The Shabbies and Between Two Fires plus The Flash light mystery.
Waldron's Casino hosted the Merry Rounders and Max Spiegel's troupe for the opening of This Is the Life. The show features excellent comedians Abe Reynolds and George F. Hayes, pretty girls, bright costumes, lavish scenery, music and dancing. The tale has little plot but strong musical burlesque elements and lively performances.
Tremont Temple continues its war film engagement with a stark new set of scenes from Europe, including a convalescent hospital and maimed veterans. Tonight's program adds a final screening of the election returns before a music and pictures program. The next series begins November 13 with eight travel lectures on Saturday matinees and evenings.
Gordon's Olympia presents a lively week bill led by Gracie Emmet in Mrs. Murphy's Second Husband. Jones and Cutie the Fox Terrier perform with playful flair plus ten Southern singers and dancers, Grant Gardner and Burke McDonald’s Irish comedy duo, the Lucier trio, Geoffrey L Whalen lecturer, and a feature photo-play Liberty Hall.
The American premiere of Cyril Harcourt's comedy A Place in the Sun opens at the Toy Theatre tomorrow evening marking the second anniversary of the London debut. The original London debut occurred November 8 1818 and the Boston bow is November 3 1915.
Tonight voters will see complete election returns announced at the Howard Atheneum. Yesterday the burlesque attraction headlined by Harry Steppe and the Girls from the Follies drew large crowds with 25 members, plus additional acts by the De Vries Troupe and European acrobats. Wresting, amateurs, circus and college night are slated for Thursday and Friday with Penn and Dartmouth teams in attendance.
The Wilbur Theatre enters its second week with Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion and Anatole France’s The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife drawing a well filled house. Shaw’s satire sparkles amid views on Christianity and society. Androcles provides entertainment while offering Shaw’s distinctive stance.
Boston audiences packed the Shubert Theatre for Experi ence and box office receipts soared beyond any week of its Shubert run. Crowds filled the opera house last week, confirming strong demand and sustained enthusiasm.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre presents Ted Steele Musical Comedy with McGowan's Troubles this week. Acts include Jungman family Bud and Nellie Heim and the Aus tins. Moving pictures feature Jim West Gambler and Voices From the Past. Election returns announced tonight from the stage.
Park Square Theatre continues Twin Beds by Margaret Mayo into its tenth week with lively audience response. Review notes the play’s high laugh capacity and the show’s enduring popularity beyond nine weeks.
A capacity Franklin Park audience praised Emmy Wehlen in When a Woman Loves, a top Metro photoplay with clear photography and nearly perfect scenery. The program also featured four main vaudeville acts led by Drawee Frisco and Hambo along with a jungle novelty and lavish scenery.
The Plymouth Theatre production Back Home by Bayard Veiller entered its fourth week last night, praised for its humor balanced with stirring incident and strong character drawing, proving popular appeal through well-timed comedy and drama.
The Park Theatre showcases Geraldine Farrar in a picturized Carmen moving picture. It features intense scenes with real on screen violence such as factory fighting and a staged bullfight noted for striking photography.
The Craig Players continue the Edward Clark farce Coat Tales at the Castle Square Theatre for a second week. The tangled plot elicits audience laughter as mystery and humor intertwine on stage.
Florence Hale, longtime Lothrop Stock Company star at Bowdoin Square Theatre, appears in moving pictures this week. She has many local friends and will be warmly welcomed by old time patrons during the last half of the week.
Miss Blanche Rose shares a Chicago interview recipe to darken gray hair and keep it soft and glossy. The mix invites half pint water 1 oz bay rum small box Barbo Compund 14 oz glycerine applied twice weekly to reduce age appearance and aid scalp health.
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