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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1915
Page
8
An advertisement extols Plant Juice as a herbal tonic claiming broad health benefits. It cites a testimonial from Walter Stewart of 170 Haywood Street and promotes the Plant Juice representative at Liggett Drug Co. corner Washington and Avon Streets to discuss the remedy.
The Shubert presented Maid in America in Boston last night. The Winter Garden style vaudeville show impressed with no plot yet many high grade acts and a strong company. New costumes aided the premier like appearance and the cast offered abundant talent.
The piece highlights Florence Moore and Louise Mink with Mile Dazie Minerva Coverdale and others in prominent roles. The performers entertain with song dance and comedy while a central boardwalk scene and balloon souvenirs end the lively Boston show described as breezy active and spicy yet clean.
Castle Square Theatre presents The Case of Becky by Edward J Locke on Thursday replacing Coat Tales. The drama centers on a Boston case of hypnosis curing a split personality with Becky hidden as Dorothy and Balzamo the hypnotist returning to restore control. Cast includes Mary Young Dorothy Becky and actors Carleton Friebus Meek Roberts and Barnicoat.
The Gaiety Theatre features Joe Hurtig's Girl Trust company this week. Frank Burt-star resembles Sam Bernard in dialect and presence. Maudie Heath's costumes wow audiences as she and Burt perform a noted dancing specialty. Edna Green charms as a sprightly soubrette. Augusta Lang, Nellie Francis also impress with notable burlesque numbers.
Olin Downes notes baritone Louis Graveure sang yesterday afternoon in German English and French songs by Schubert Jackson Lawes Arnold Bemberg von Fielitz Landon Ronald Margetson and Airlie Dix. Graveure has an unusually beautiful baritone but his phrasing veers into sentimentality and abrupt dynamics. He received cordial applause and extended the program. Francis Moore accompanied intelligently.
Announcement that Experience the modern morality comedy drama will extend in Boston for four weeks at the Wilbur Theatre beginning next Monday night. Contracts signed to keep the show in the city after it closes at the Boston Opera House next Saturday. Credit for the extension goes to William A. Brady who secured the Wilbur after seeing the crowded opera house and learning no other Boston venue was available.
Howard Estabrook and Kathryn Browne Decker star in The Closing Net a five act romance of modern business life while Antonio Moreno and Naomi Hilders headline Angelo Lee a three act feature. Color Waterways in Bruges and Picturesque Lake Dahl accompany the program along with boxing and news reels. Margaret Millen Henry and the Fadeties orchestra lead the music with Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne headlining Pennington's Choice later in the week.
Mary Pickford stars in the Paramount picture Madame Butterfly at the Park Theatre this week. The James Street feature uses notable Japanese garden sets and authentic costumes with Puccini style music. Also shown is Dora Thorne with Lionel Barrymore and other shorts, vaudeville, and Park Orchestra. Next week Pauline Frederick stars in Bella Donna.
Elsie Ferguson headlines at Hollis Street Theatre marking her first Boston appearance in over a year. The current engagement opens with the largest audience of the year as she showcases wide range from grotesque comedy to tense emotion across four acts, sustaining audience sympathy throughout.
Bos ton audiences roar at the Colonial Theatre as dancing fever peaks with Watch Your Step. Vernon Castle returns with Mrs Vernon Castle while Frank Tinney delivers jokes and Brice and King join Harry Kelley and Harry Ellis in a lively show.
An army of bankers brokers and business men witnessed a fine performance by the Mischiefmakers Burlesque company at the Howard Athenaeum. Rich McAllister Felix Rush and a bright chorus headlined alongside varied acts including the Aloha Twins and Margaret Shannon. The bill featured Ergotti and Hiputians gymnastic stunts and vaudeville routines by Keefe Langdon Wheeler and others with recurring Friday circuses under Sam Cohen.
Robert Mantell stars in The Blindness of Devotion a photo play debut as a mature husband. The plot centers on wealth and romance with a guardian and young wife, a rival officer, an attempted poisoning, and a cunning reversal. Short photo-plays and news pictorial complete the bill with an organ recital praised.
One of the era’s most elaborate photo plays, In the Palace of the King, screens at the Boston Hippodrome this week. E. J. Ratcliffe and Arleen Hackett star in a Madrid romance from F. Marion Crawford. Signor Creatore conducts the music, adding a striking concert finale to the program alongside a comedy and See America First scenic instalment.
The Toy Theatre opened the first full week of its Boston engagement with A Place in the Sun a comedy by Cyril Harcourt. The play about London upper-class foibles drew large crowds and favorable notices, with Cyril Harcourt and his company playing to crowded houses and signals a long run ahead.
Gordon's Olympia presents a high class operatic night with 14 in the company led by Marie Stoddard and Gordon and Marx. Niblo's talking birds provide a novelty act while Captain Kidder's miniature operetta and Welton and Marshall offer comedy singing. Geofrey L. Whalen lectures as new photo-plays close the program.
Yesterday's feature included Cleo Ridgley in The Chorus Lady a Lasky production in five parts with an all star cast and ends with Wednesday evening. Lenore Ulrich appears in Kilmeny a Paramount five part program for the last part of the week.
Dr B Sauer cites tests where lack of iron causes weakness and many illnesses. Two five grain tablets of nuxated iron thrice daily for two weeks allegedly doubles strength and endurance, with a money-back guarantee if not at least doubled in ten days.
Beatrice Herford headlines a rich vaudeville bill at B F Keith's Theatre Boston with descriptive monologues and a stage of varied acts. The show features The New Producer operatic turn, Blanche Morrison Bertam Peacock and others in a Carmen scene, plus The New Teacher, The Final Decree and debut screenings of the U S Nevada off Maine.
The Grand Opera House in South End hosted the Grew-Pates Stock company for a melodrama opening the season. Two large crowds applauded Electrocuted at 5 A M with thrills and comic relief. Notable cast includes Grew as George Annister Pates as Fanny Lascelles as Claire Annister Kent as Frank Folger Hancock as Carl Annister and Fairchild Judson as Mr and Mrs Tarrell. A one hour Universal Picture feature preceded the curtain.
The Loew's St James presents Trilby starring Wilton Lackaye and Clara Kimball Young in Boston for the first time. Vaudeville features include Green McHenry and Deane, the Five Marettis, Hall Stephens and company, Bonners and Power in comedy, and Fink and Clarke. The Remick Singers with Charlie Bradley perform new hits along with The Diamond from the Sky and the latest Pathe News. Thursday Edward August and Lillian Tucker debut in Evidence in Boston.
Unique Theatre tonight begins a policy of a Country Store every Tuesday at nine. Tomorrow and Thursday feature Salambo a five reel Cabiria style production. Friday and Saturday present Hearts in Exile a five reel drama about Jewish persecution in Russia.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents Ted Steele musical comedy company in A Day at the Fair with De Vries acrobats and De Dio’s Circus. Acts include Bud Loraine the cowboy ventriloquist, Perkins Musical Duo, Brennan and Carroll, Jack Mendelsohn, and a Desert Moonlight Biograph film program. Beginning Thursday the Ted Steele troupe returns with In the Good Ship Mary Ann and Rosa Rentz equilibrists plus other vaudeville acts and a Sunday night concert.
Fred Irwin returns to burlesque with his Majesties at Charlie Waldron's Casino. Two yesterday shows drew capacity crowds as Florence Bennett led a talented cast including Virginia Irwin Elmer Tenley John Sherry and Emanuel List with the Six Xela sisters and a two dozen chorus.
The Tremont Theatre presents On Trial in its seventh week of Boston engagement. The play draws enthusiastic crowds with an intricate plot and an ingenious treatment by Mr. Reizenstein that intrigues audiences and critics alike.
The Majestic Theatre in Boston draws steady crowds for daily matinees and nightly shows of The Battle Cry of Peace. Audiences report long, spellbound sequences with sustained excitement and astonishment during the performances.
Nicola Ouluchanoff baritone with Mme. Ondricek and Alfred de Voto in Jordan Hall offered mostly new Russian works. Critics praised some melodies but found few pieces distinctly Russian and noted occasional nervous delivery and a long Tschaikowsky serenade. The concert drew a large, enthusiastic audience.
Park Square Theatre continues its Selwyn and Com pany comedy Twin Beds now in its 11th week. The Boston audience rewards the authors Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field and the capable cast with sustained applause as the lively farce keeps delivering unabated merriment.
The Wilbur Theatre presents Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion as a thoroughly entertaining comedy, preceded by Anatole France's offerings. The pairing promises sharp wit and satirical pairing in a period-appropriate program.
Kathleen Williams and Tyrone Powers star in the Selig American drama Sweet Alyssum as the week’s photo play feature at Franklin Park Theatre. The five act story appeals with gripping drama. Vaudeville by Ted White’s troupe offers Kidland, a high quality tabloid musical comedy.
Worcester on November 8 7 year old John Reidle of 5 Ashmont avenue was struck by an auto truck and left in a dying condition with a fractured skull. Police say driver Leroy Heath fled the scene but was later located and identified by witnesses.
An advertisement warns that indoor living causes unhealthy fat and proposes Korein capsules as a quick weight reduction. It claims exercise outdoors strengthens digestion and vitality, suggesting that adults 15 or 29 pounds over normal weight should use Korein for several days to notice weight loss, improved digestion, energy, and skin tone.
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