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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1915
Page
8
Marie Tempest winds up a brief Hollis Street Theatre engagement with a double bill featuring The Duke of Killickrite and Rosalind. The Duke of Killickrite is a familiar farce previously staged with John Drew in the title role, offering a light, comic treatment of a primitive situation.
Advertisement extols the J. B. I Cascade system for internal bathing to cleanse the colon and relieve constipation. It claims 300000 Americans use it, cites health benefits, and promotes Riker Jaynes Drug Stores in New England with an offer of a free booklet.
Mrs Joseph Constance of Rapides Parish Louisiana testifies in 1911 that after twenty one years of pain in the side and failed morphine relief she found cure with Kilmer Swamp Root. She mentions passing a gravel stone and recovery after starting the product and swears to the truth of the statement before notary WM Morrow.
A letter advert promotes sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer and Co in Binghamton New York for a sample size bottle of kidney and bladder remedy. It promises a booklet of information and asks readers to mention the Boston Daily Post. Regular 50 cent and one dollar bottles are sold at drug stores.
A nobleman schemes to kidnap the woman he loves and holds her at his Scottish castle until she agrees to marry him. A wealthy but ordinary widow is drawn into the intrigue and plays the role Miss Tempest assumes.
The review praises Miss Tempest for versatile acting in two stories including Rosalind by Sir James M. Barrie and a seaside mother role with youthful illusion. It highlights Graham Browne as the title character and Grace Carlyle as Lady Henrietta, with strong support from Ferdinand Gottschalk Kate Serjeantson and Reginald Denny. An enthusiastic audience attended the two week engagement.
The Battle Cry of Peace entered its fourth week at the Majestic Theatre with strong turnout. Afternoon crowds included several hundred veterans from the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea, reflecting broad patriotic interest amid national military expansion debates.
At Tremont Temple last evening the initial screening of American Game Trails impressed audiences with footage of big game hunted by photographers. A notable moment shows a hunter riding a large wild moose, earning enthusiastic appreciation, with numerous other compelling scenes highlighted.
B F Keith's Theatre presents Grace LaRue and George MacFarlane with a lineup including Mul len and Coogan, DeLeon and Davies, Corradini's trained elephant and zebras, and exclusive Harvard Yale football game pictures. LaRue sings seven numbers with an encore. MacFarlane scores. Mullen and Coogan perform old nonsense. Corradini troupe displays trained animals. Werner Armoras and Wright and Sabbott also perform.
Park Theatre presents the new Lasky Paramount film Chimmie Fadden Out West with Victor Moore, a humorous tale of a Bowery tough seeking a gold mine in Death Valley. Also shown is Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, praised for its pathos, plus other notable films and live music by William F. Dodge and his orchestra with soloist Marie Shaw.
Dan Coleman returned to Boston to lead Waldron's Casino with Phil Peters as a German baron. Florence Darley captivated as Hazel Lorraine while Alma Bauer sang and acted well. The cast also featured Edward Vincent Anna Mae Bell Charles Bovis Will Henry Nellie Henry and Anna Connors in a chorus praised for its feminine beauty.
Gordon's Olympia features a lively program headlined by a Kay Betts and Robbins comedy skit, Ed die Ford and dancing girls, and De Rossa's cats and dogs novelty. Pauline Fielding and company perform The Rose of Virginia, with Hellman brothers acrobats Richards and Dixon, a pianologue act, and Geoffrey M Whalen as lecturer.
The Franklin Park Theatre featured Eassanay special Palace of the King with Richard Trayers in the lead and a select vaudeville bill. Harry Brooks and company performed The Old Minstrel Man, Dawson and Gillette presented First Aid to the Gloomy, Sylvester and Vance offered Get Out of My Theatre and Silent Mora, conjurer, closed the bill.
Laughter ruled at the Howard Atheneum as the Girls from Joyland delivered a high caliber burlesque show. The cast featured Murray J. Simonds Drena Mack Billy Gilbert Beulah Kennedy Venita Gray Mlle Boene Alice Spooner Ethel Melrose Joe Lyons George Thurston John Burke and a striking chorus. The program included The Fall of Babylon a lavish Rochegrosse painting re production and a lineup of gymnastic and musical numbers plus acts by Nichols and Robinson Mae Nash and others. Amateurs entertain every Friday under Sam Cohen.
The Castle Square production of The Prisoner of Zenda returns after six years with Craig in dual roles and Miss Young as Princess Flavia. Firebus Carleton Seeley Barnicoat star in a strong cast as the Balkans set impresses with quick changes and convincing scenery.
The bowdoin Square Theatre presented a T F musical comedy company led by F F Thomas to a lively audience of women and children. A 14 member cast featured dancing and song acts including The Dancing Macks and the Novelty Trio. The Baby Grand skit by Mann and More and monologist Tony Williams drew strong applause. Leo Feist Serenaders impressed patrons as thrilling moving pictures played.
Plymouth Theatre hosts the final week of Sadie Love a lively Avery Hopwood farce about three couples tangled in comic predicaments. Marjorie Rambeau stars as Sadie Love alongside a strong Boston cast delivering breezy, witty performances.
The Gaiety hosts the Strolling Players with In and Out a Max Spiegel show led by Gus Fay and Hal Skelly. The cast includes Ina Haywood in the lead with strong support from Ernie and Val Stanton, Eddie Lloyd, Doris Thayer, and the Hayward sisters as two acts and two scenes entertain the audience.
The Boston Theatre offers a Triangle program featuring The Coward with Frank Keenan as Colonel Winslow and a Civil War plot followed by Old Heidelberg and a Mack Sennett farce A Favorite Fool. The week includes a tornado incident on stage involving Eddie Foy and Polly Moran.
Boston Hippodrome on Tremont Street features Emily Stevens in The Soul of a Woman a five act romance about a mother and her son and the House of Lost Souls. Fatty Arbuckle appears in a two act comedy and a See America First short shows Manhattan.
The Shubert Theatre hosts the final week of the New York Winter Garden revue Maid in America with a lively audience response. The production is described as rapid and amusing, featuring pretty girls, stunning costumes, striking scenes, and lively music. George Schiller debuts as John Gray and as Marc Antony in the Antony and Cleopatra burlesque, adding extra interest to the show.
The Grand Opera House hosted Tess of the Storm Country with Gwendoline Pates as Tess and the Grew Pates stock company. Tessibel Skinner’s father is accused of murder after poaching and illegal netting. a student helps win a new trial later revealing Tess’s steadfast faith and love.
William Fox presents William Farnum in The Broken Law a romantic drama about a young novelist seeking his missing half sister among gypsy bands on his estate bringing danger and a dramatic twist. Armstrongs Wife features Edna Goodrich in a costume rich drama with drama and style. News Pictorial shown and a pleasing organ recital accompanied the program.
The final fortnight in Boston opened at the Colonial Theatre with Watch Your Step a lively show spotlighting dancing features led by Mr and Mrs Vernon Castle. The dances are described as graceful and likely to become society fads here after the engagement ends.
Boston playgoers learn of the approaching departure of On Trial by Imre L. Rei zenstein. The Tremont Theatre has crowded for eight weeks with Frederick Perry portraying the Defendent and Marie Leonhard and Ethel Downey in key roles.
A lively Scollay Square Olympia Theatre program yesterday featured Max York and pupils, Suydam and Perry, the Four Melody Monarchs, and a miniature musical comedy with George Auger the tallest living prehistoric giant and Ernest Rommel and girls. The Mutual master picture Inspiration with Audrey Munson, world famous art model, was also shown.
The Globe Theatre presented an all star program headlined by Lipinski’s 40 dog comedians in Every Day Life in a Dog Village featuring the drunken dog Peter. Also featured were Melody Four, Viola Duval, The Back Number, Tabor and Green, and the Berlin Serenaders with a reel of photo plays, The Diamond from the Sky finale, and the latest Pathe News.
The feature photo play at the popular theatre yesterday starred Muriel Ostriche in A Daughter of the Sea. Vaudeville offerings included Barnes and Robinson in a new original song, He, She and Him, Van and Carrie Avery with a new act, King and King in acrobatic feats, Overhold and Young, and the Berlin Serenaders. Photo plays showcased the final episode of Diamond from the Sky and the latest Pathe News.
The modern morality drama Experience by George W Hobart drew a crowded house at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston for its 100th performance last night. The Boston run has grown more popular weekly and marks the third theatre in which the play has been staged this season by William Elliott F Ray Comstock and Morris Gest.
Park Square Theatre closes its engagement of Twin Beds on Saturday December 11 after an lth week run. The farce by Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field continues to draw laughs, with its appeal extending for two additional weeks beyond this notice.
Geraldine Farrar led the program at the Exeter Street Theatre with Carmen. The production runs for three days and ends Wednesday evening before John Barrymore arrives with The Incorrigible Dukane, a five part Paramount production.
A Boston letter to the editor urges deporting Germans and German Americans aged for military service who oppose the United States. It claims 400,000 such men in the U.S. could be sent to fight for Germany, arguing this would save costs and bolster national safety while pleasing the Kaiser. The writer insists on rounding up these men and placing them in German ranks.
Miss Mary A. Keyes music teacher was robbed of her handbag on Pleasant street near Coolidge corner Brookline. A young man followed her from a car and grabbed the bag as she resisted, breaking the handle. the thief fled with money tickets and keys inside.
The City Council delays approving an annuity for the widow of Timothy J. Crowley a Fire Company 10 member who died after a March six alarm fire. Fire Commissioner Grady questions whether Crowley received exposure at the blaze and notes no official report from Engine 10 captain. Doctors cited Brights disease possibly caused by the drenching. Grady opposes the annuity until inquiries confirm facts. Crowley served three years and died last August.
John P. Chambers, 3, fled from Inspectors Kilday and McCarthy last night along Dover street. He was captured on the outbound platform at the Dove Street elevated station after a sharp struggle. Chambers had previously served five terms at the House of Correction and, upon capture, wore an overcoat identified as belonging to Dr. Jacob Luftig of 282 Columbus Avenue. The coat, valued at 385 dollars, was taken from the physician’s automobile outside his office shortly before.
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