Immortal heroine Cigarette stars in Boston Theatre screening
The Boston Theatre showcases Under Two, a romantic tale with Arab frontier scenes and a strong cast led by Priscilla. The film blends action, love, and tragedy while vaudeville acts headlined by Jess Libonati and groups like Howard & Sadler and Nathane & Sully.
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Ouida
Boston
Priscilla
Cigarette
Cape
Jess Libonati
Howard & Sadler
Nathane & Sully
Schriner & Fussimmons
Manning & Class
Dramatic premiere of Broken Threads at Somerville Theatre
At Somerville Theatre yesterday the first performance of Broken Threads delivered sacrifice and devotion on stage. Ann Hamilton impressed with manic effects, while Harry Bond played the rugged mining engineer hero with notable prowess. The remainder of the cast performed well as Stage Director Doyle prepared for next week’s Bird of Paradise.
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Somerville
Ann Hamilton
Harry Bond
Doyle
Beggar's Opera Delights at Fine Arts Theatre
The Beggar's Opera was presented last evening at the Fine Arts Theatre. Albert Steinert has arranged a limited run of performances in Boston, reviving a piece first seen at the Boston Theatre in 1854. The show, a comedy with music, draws a novel reception in this city.
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Fine Arts Theatre
Boston
Albert Steinert
Opera in Two Acts Seen as Satire of Early Entertainment
A recent performance presents a two act opera where all characters are portrayed as flawed. Polly Peacham, her lover, and a cast including Dorianne Bawn and Arthur Wynn headline a satirical glimpse of 200 year old stage life with tavern rogues, Newgate scenes, and a condemned man’s cell.
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Peacham
Polly
Newgate
Dorianne Bawn
Polly Peacham
Arthur Wynn
Mr. Peacham
Lena Maitland
The Loves of Pharaoh at Lancaster Theatre
A Lancaster Theatre bill yesterday featured The Loves of Pharaoh and Corinne Griffith in A Woman's Sacrifice. Thursday’s program includes Lois Wilson and Jack Mulhall in Broad Daylight and a special cast in What's Wrong With the Women.
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Lancaster
Corinne Griffith
Lois Wilson
Jack Mulhall
Orpheum Theatre Receives Warm Audience Reception
Nice People stars Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels led by a vaudeville show at Loew's Orpheum Theatre yesterday. The program featured Joe Sheffers Revue with colored serenaders, plus Tilyou and Rogers eccentricities, George Alexander company, McCormack and Irving, La Toy brothers, and Brennan and Winnie. A late comedy and news weekly completed the program.
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Wallace Reid
Bebe Daniels
Rojses
Loew
Orpheum Theatre
Joe Sheffers
Tilyou
Rogers
George Alexander and Company
McCormack and
Irving
la Toy Brothers
Brennan
Winnie
Barrymore Shines in Sherlock Holmes at Twin Houses
John Barrymore delivers a capital performance as Sherlock Holmes in the Modern and Beacon Theatres feature “Sherlock Holmes.” Adapted from William Gillette and Conan Doyle, the film follows Holmes from Cambridge to Moriarty’s clever schemes with romance woven in. Gustave Von Seyfertitz portrays Moriarty. Carol Dempster and others add to the cast. William Russell also appears in a dual role in “Mixed Faces.”
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John Barrymore
Sherlock Holmes
Modern
Beacon Theatres
William Gillette
Conan Doyle
St. John’s College
Cambridge
Moriarty
Mr. Barrymore
Gustave von Seyffertitz
Professor Moriarty
Carol Dempster
Roland Young
Louis Wolheim
Winter Hall
William Russell
Meighan at the State shows two tales of love and fate
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow stars Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy in a disjointed drama of a man torn between two wives. Pink Gods, a diamond-field melodrama, features Bebe Daniels and James Kirkwood with strong staging and an orchestral Flying Dutchman overture.
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State Theatre
Thomas Meighan
Theodore Roberts
Leatrice Joy
June Elvidge
Mr. Meighan
Burke Hammond
Lady Helen
Miss Elvidge
Rita
Miss Joy
Bebe Daniels
James Kirkwood
Anna G. Nilsson
Raymond Hatton
Seventeen at St James Boston stage adapts Tarkington tale
George A. Giles presented Booth Tarkington's Seventeen at the St James in Boston. Willie Baxter endures puppy love while his father and sister clash over social status as a dress suit goes missing and Genesis reveals its origin. Houston Richards leads a strong cast with Theresa Kiilburn Eveta Nudson Walter Gilbert and others delivering vivid character work.
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Willie
Genesis
Houston Richards
the St. James
Willie Baxter
Theresa Kiilburn
Jane
Eveta Nudson
Walter Gilbert
Anna Layng
Edward Carney
Lucille Adams
Harold Chase
Watson Girls at Majestic Stolen Sweets Show
The Watson Sisters return to the Shubert Majestic in Boston with a brand new cameo music act Stolen Sweets. They receive a wonderful reception while supported by Johnny Berkes Walter Brazil The Brazillian Nuts Harry Steppe and Harry O Neal Celia Davis and five young musicians delivering jazz and a strong chorus routine.
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Kitty
Fannie Watson
Shubert Majestic
Harry Steppe
Harry O'Neal
Celia Davis
Bowns
Globe Theatre Week Lines Up Fairbanks and Lloyd Features
The Globe Theatre presents Develo Fairbanks in The Three and Mee Plloyd in High and Dizzy this week with showings running nightly.
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Globe Theatre
Develo Fairbanks
Mee Plloyd
Season of Opera Opens with Aida at San Carlo
The Boston Opera House hosted the season opener with Aida. The reviewer notes it is not the first or last time the opera begins a season in the city and laments the era’s aging composers and scarce worthy interpreters.
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San Carlo Company
Boston Opera House
Aida
Meyerbeer
Verdi’s Aida Impresses despite Mixed Voices at Gallo
The packed house cheered Verdi’s Aida conducted by Peroni with Marie Rappold as Aida and Eleonora Cisneros as Amneris. Salazar’s Radames and Valle’s Amonasro drew mixed reactions while the chorus delivered gusto. Tonight the program offered Rigoletto as the follow up.
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Aida
Peroni
Scandals at Waldron's Casino Delights Audiences
Waldron's Casino hosted a three in one revue with moving pictures vaudeville and chorus numbers. Harry Hickey LeVan drew loud laughs in his scenes with Johnny Hudgins and Harry Bentley, while Maude Baxter showcased a soprano act. The Àsters LaPierre from Paria performed French songs with verve and earned encores. Extra feature tonight election returns.
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Waldron
Harry (Hickey) LeVan
Johnny Hudgins
Harry Bentley
Maude Baxter
Àsters LaPierre
Paria
Montmartre
Rose Chevalier
Letty Bolles
Skin Deep at Olympia Theater in Washington Street
A Thomas H. Ince production shown at Gordon's Olympia Theatre. Syd Doyle, once a crook, is rescued from prison by an airplane but faces a failed escape rope ladder. Plastic surgery disguises him as a handsome man who helps round up crooks. Milton Sills stars with Marcia Manon and a strong supporting cast. Vaudeville opens with Bend er and Armstrong. other acts include Fiske and Lloyd and Bloom and Sher.
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Thomas H. Ince
Gordon
Washington Street Olympia Theatre
Syd Doyle
Underworld
Bud
Milton Sills
Bud Doyle
Marcia Manon
Florence Vidor
Winter Hall
Charles Clary
Frank Keenan
Bender
Armstrong
Fiske and Lloyd
Mildred Andre
Girls
Bloom and Sher
Alphonse Berg
Faversham at Keith's Delight Audience with One-Act Sketch
William Faversham and Helen Daube presented A Marriage Has Been Arranged at Keith's Theatre to a large crowd. Miss Patricola performed songs and violin pieces. The Two Doctors offered medical satire with comedy and dancing. Braggiotti sisters offered new dances. other acts included Luken Kuhne McCell Strnarts Weber Rilner Swift Kelley and Collins Hart.
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William Faversham
Keith
Helen Daube
Patricola
Kenney
Hollis
Braggiotti
Berthe
Francesca
Rey Luken
Joseph Kuhne
James McCell
Charles Seymour
Strnarts
Eddie Weber
Marion Rilner
Thomas F. Swift
Mary H. Kelley
Collins and
Hart
Rags to Riches at Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia
Wesley Barry performs in Rags to Riches at Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia with a vaudeville bill led by mandolin wizard D Appolon. The program features current news and comic reels alongside the main attraction.
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Wesley Barry
Gordon’s Scollay Square Olympia
D. Appolon
Widow of Provincetown fire chief dies after long illness
Mrs Annie T Barrett wife of James A Barnett longtime Provincetown fire chief died at home after a stroke and 136 days without speech in her 69th year. She was active in the Church of the Redeemer Universalist charity and social work and is survived by her husband.
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Provincetown
Annie T. Barrett
James A. Barnett
Conant Street
Barnett
Church of the Redeemer, Universalist
Newtonville Girl Honored With Athletic Cup
Katherine Aurgansen of Newtonville wins the Sarah Streeter Cup as the most physically perfect senior at Mt. Holyoke College under the donor standards stressing gymnastic effort. Announcement made at the class meeting cites the cup's 1914 origin to promote exercise and athletic competition.
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South Hadley
Katherine Aurgansen
Newtonville
Sarah Streeter
Mt. Holyoke College
Miss Aurgansen
Cantor Stars in Make It Snappy at Shubert Theatre
Eddie Cantor headlines Make It Snappy at the Shubert with Lillian Fitzgerald and Muriel De Forrest in a lively revue of song and burlesque. The program features The Princess Beautiful ballet and a string of stylish costumes, with Cantor delivering humor and dance in a showcase that relies on performance over plot.
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Shubert Theatre
Eddie
Lillian Fitzgerald
Everyman
Eddie Cantor
Muriel de Forrest
Baby Flapper
Burning Sands Shown at Gordon's Theatres with Extras
The feature Burning Sands played yesterday at Gordon's Strand and Gordon's Central Square Theatres alongside News Weekly a comedy and a special musical accompaniment completing the program.
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Burning Sands
Gordon's Strand
Gordon's Central Square
The Fenway Theater Presents Remembrance and The Splendid Lie
Rupert Hughes Remembrance and Grace Davidson The Splendid Lie headline the Fenway Theater bill. Lloyd G Del Castillo earns applause for his organ recital performance.
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Fenway Theater
Rupert Hughes
Grace Davison
Lloyd G. del Castillo
Maids of America dazzles at the Gayety Theatre
The Maids of America opened at the Gayety Theatre delivering a high burlesque standard. A lavish harem scene in act two and a lively Dancing Mad number highlight a show described as a musical whirl through Laugh Land. Performers Alfreda Simons Florence DeVere Jack Snutta and others carry the fast moving comedy and melody.
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Don Trent
Alfreda Simons
Jack Snutta
Florence DeVere
Fred Beebe
George Leon
Mildred Franklin
Sidney Page
Charles Legert
Exeter Street Theatre Presents Mixed Program of Silent Stars
Wanda Hawley and Milton Sills star in Burning Sands and Viola Dana appears in June Madness for today and Wednesday. Later in the week Wallace Reid offers The Ghost Breaker with Bessie Love and Gareth Hughes in Forget-me-not for an especially entertaining programme.
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Exeter Street
Wanda Hawley
Milton Sills
Viola Dana
Wallace Reid
Bessie Love
Gareth Hughes
Tip Top Show at the Howard
A snappy burlesque show the Monte Carlo Girls drew patrons at the Howard Athen eum yesterday. The comedy by Tommy Burns Willis Mack and Grace Goodale plus a chorus led by Violet Buckley and George Paget thrilled the crowd. Manager G K Lothrop also staged a vaudeville bill featuring Casey and Warren Noel Lester and company and the Garden duo with Charles Jones. Election returns will be announced tonight.
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Monte Carlo
Howard Athenaeum
Tommy Burns
Willis Mack
Grace Goodale
Stanley Easton
Jim Stuart
Violet Buckley
George Paget
Bessie Brown
G. K. Lothrop
Casey and Warren
Noel Lester and Company
George and
Lily Garden
Charles Jones
Trooper O'Neil
Mae Murray at Bowdoin Square Theatre
Mae Murray appears in Broadway Rose at Bowdoin Square Theatre with a standout finale dance amid a night life drama. Also showing Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court with light humor. additional acts include Speed and vaudeville acts. Rose night Thursday with roses for women. bargain night Friday. Election returns announced tonight.
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Bowdoin Square Theatre
Mae Murray
Bowdoin
William Fox
Mark Twain
King Arthur’s Court
Charles Hutchinson
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