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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1922
Page
12
Arlington listings feature a diverse arts lineup with venues including Shubert Eddie Cantor in Naka It Snappy Tremont Temple One Ex citing Night and Wilbur The Bat.
Last night at the Fenway Theatre the feature film In the Name of the Law starred with Dorothy Gish in The Country Flapper. Organist Lloyd G. del Castillo was well received after his recital.
An advertisement cites Mrs White of Dover New Hampshire praising Dr Williams Pink Pills as a remedy for grip aftereffects including weakness insomnia and poor appetite. The pills are touted as a blood and nerve tonic useful for anemia nervousness neuralgia and sciatica with a coupon for a 60 cent bottle and a free booklet on building up energy.
Eugene O Neill’s Anna Christie starring Pauline Lord comes from New York to Plymouth Theatre Boston production praised as stark tragedy with strong cast. Lord’s portrayal of Anna draws high praise as does George Marion’s Old Chris and Frank Shannon’s Matt Burke in a gritty faithful rendering. The play traces a coal barge captain daughter’s descent into shame and redemption amid sea life, poverty, love, and conflict with her father.
At Loew's Orpheum Theatre yesterday a fine vaudeville bill and a standout photoplay featured Rudolph Valentino in The Young Rajah. Edward Clarke and company led the vaudeville with an original offering, Frederic Santley and company presented Dance Dreams, and other acts included William Rand and company Melroy Sisters Prevost and Golet. Larry Lemon offered a comedy The Agent while a news pictorial played.
Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia Theatre featured "To Have and to Hold" as the headliner. The program also offered latest news pictorial and comic pictures along with a splendid vaudeville bill and a musical extravaganza.
Brawn of the North stars Strongheart a German police dog in a Gordon's Washington street Olympia Theatre feature. The plot centers on two men and a woman as Strongheart defends his mistress, foils the villain, and saves a baby amid snowlit pines and superb photography. Vaudeville headliner The Comebacks perform with additional acts listed.
The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully lights up the Somerville Theatre this week. Ann Hamilton plays the heroine with Harry Bond as the hero in a romantic drama of the Hawaiian Islands featuring a real Hawaiian quintette and musicians. Manager McArdle praised James H. Doyle for the lively production as audiences show keen interest.
George Stone and Etta Pillard star at the Gayety Theatre in Joe Hurtig's Social Maids and its new burlesque The Boys from Home. The chorus impresses with beauty youth and sharp song and dance. Elinor Wilson leads with songs while Rose Duffin Marie Hart deliver lively numbers.
The Curse of Drink drew large crowds at the Globe Theatre yesterday. Stars include Harry T. Morey George Fawcett Edmund Breese Miriam Batista and Marguerite Clayton. Ruth Sanford a railroad president’s stenographer must wed his son but a drunkard father complicates plans. Ruth saves her fiancé’s father figure in a harrowing finale. Continuous showings announced for a limited engagement.
The Prisoner of Zenda played yesterday at Gordon's Strand and Gordon's Central Square Theatres with special music accompaniment.
The text discusses aspirin as a Bayer trademark and notes acceptable packages with proper directions. It mentions handy boxes of twelve tablets costing a few cents and druggists offering bottles of 24 or 100 pills. It identifies aspirin as the monoacetic acid ester of salicylic acid produced by Bayer.
The Hollis presents He Who Gets Slapped, a psychological Russian drama by Leonid Andreiev. Richard Bennett stars as He with Consuelo played by Martha Bryan-Allen in a tightly staged one-room set, delivering a haunting portrayal of a soul torn by grief and mercy.
Polly Moran drew a large audience at Bowdoin Square Theatre where she entertained with stories from her films and the audience savored her charisma. The program included Rupert Hughes Remembrance with Claude Gillingswater Patsy Ruth Miller and Cullen Landis and Will iam Farnum in Without Compromise. Also shown were Speed continuation featuring George Hutchinson and Larry Lemon in The Agent. vaudeville performances by Rubin's society jazz band Pauline Russell and company Ginger Gir don Arch Vedder and Bargain features Friday night.
The modern theatregoer can see The Book of Job presented by Stuart Walker at the Wilbur Theatre this week with performances on Tuesday Friday afternoons and Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Cast includes George Sommes as Job with Neville Brush Boyd Agin Aldrich Bowker and Wayne Huff as friends and Genevieve Addeman Judith Lowry as Narrators. The Boston Wellesley College Club stages the production for the Wellsley College semi centennial fund.
The San Carlo Opera Company's second Boston week opened with Puccini's La Boheme conducted by Carlo Peroni. Anna Fitzio as Mimi and Romeo Boscacci as Rodolfo drew praise. staging and some ensemble moments lagged but the last act delivered strong emotion as the chorus performed faithfully. Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are set for tonight.
Rudolph Valentino stars as Amos Judd in The Young Rajah at the State Theatre and Orpheum this week. He foresees the future via a finger of Khatina mark while facing a throne struggle in India and romantic peril in America. Wanda Hawley co stars with ornate sets and excellent photography. Clara Kimball Young appears in Enter Madame with a Larry Lemon comedy and Beethoven’s Egmont overture played by the orchestra.
Miss Williams headlines a three act vaudeville program at Waldron's featuring a mystery play The Woman in the Park inspired by The Bat. Cliff Worman Richard Lloyd and Vivian Gill appear with Art Frank Georgia Emmett and Cliff Wornan starring in comic and dramatic roles.
Sam Harris presents It’s a Boy at Selwyn Theatre Boston in a strong reception with Dorothy Mackaye Robert Ames Charles Lawrence Joseph Kilgour headlining along with a New York cast. The play by William Anthony McGuire follows a young couple in a Pennsylvania town as wealth from a syndicate tests their path to happiness.
Guiran and Marguerite lead a spectacular Keith bill of song dance and comedy this week. The show draws large applause with Russell Scott and the Kight Rockets, Mary Haynes and Brown and Whitaker providing star turns. The Big Game and Three Episodes entertain with notable acts and the Pathe News closes.
Nora Bayes received a splendid welcome at the Majestic Theatre's Shubert vaudeville debut. Her encore No One Ever Loved Like Samson and Delilah drew the house, with Whipple Huston and the cast performing a brisk revue The Midnite Revels of Youth. Also features dance interludes by Ralph Riggs Katharine Witchie and music by Whipple Huston and Mack Ponch.
Boxing champion Mickey Walker wowed fans at the Howard Athenaeum following his welterweight title win over Jack Britton. The weeklong engagement featured the Mischnief Makers with Arthur Lanning and vaudeville acts including McFarland and Palace, George Dixon, and William Farnum in Moonshine Valley.
Leah Baird writes and adapts the story for When Husbands Deceive, playing a young heiress who is deceived into marrying her guardian. Teddy the Sennett dog helps defeat the villain at the end. The Gray Dawn portrays 1852 San Francisco with Vigilantes, murders and hangings.
Boston Stock Company presents The Law Breaker at St James Theatre with Walter Gilbert as Jim Thorne in a tense tale of crime and shifting loyalties. Viola Roach Riveta Nudsen and Mark Kent earn notable praise as the cast delivers a packed house verdict praising Boston’s resident troupe. Next week features a George M. Cohan week with The Meanest Man in the World.
Wallace Reid starred opposite Lila Lee and Walter Hiers in The Ghost Breaker at the Lancaster Theatre yesterday with Viola Dana in June Madhews on the same bill. Thursday’s programme features Jackie Coogan in Trouble and My Wild Irish Rose.
George White's Scandals at the Colonial Theatre delivers nonstop color music and comedy. W C Fields provides peak humor while Paul Whitman’s Palais Royal Orchestra drives jazzy syncopation through a sparkling production.
George Arliss headlines The Man Who Flayed God adapted from Gouverneur Morris and staged at the Boston Theatre. A powerful drama of faith, love, and redemption with a strong supporting cast and a top vaudeville bill including Larry Lemon's The Agent.
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