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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1906
Page
9
Blanche Bates headlines the Majestic with The Girl From the Golden West in a strong melodrama showing two weeks. Frank Keenan and Charles Millward support, and the cast receives praise for vivid character work as Boston audiences respond with warm greetings.
The Columbia Theatre audience praised the Thoroughbreds for lively stepping and prancing in a light burlesque program. Niblo and Reilly drew applause for eccentric dancing while Laurent trio delivered midair feats. other acts included Toska, Blanche Washburn, Josie Flynn, and Douglas and Cunningham in a spicy nonsense piece.
By ones and twos and sixes and party groups of 50 or more fill Park Square Roller Skating Rink tonight. Patrons praise the clean healthy exercise and the noiseless glide on the world’s largest indoor skating surface. Eyes beam with delight as muscles seem to say they will be stronger after this amusement.
Lawrance D Orrsays Embassy Ball at the Park Theatre receives praise for witty dialogue and bright farce. Augustus Thomas and Daniel Frohman bring a polished company led by D Orsay as Captain Kellie with Madge Bender Josephine Drake Rose Hubbard and William Pickens in solid supporting turns. Two week engagement includes Wednesday and Saturday matinees and a Thanksgiving Day show.
J M Barrie’s Peter Pan staged by Maude Adams and a large company at Hollis Street Theatre captivates adults and children alike with memorable fairy and mortal characters. Adams shines as the playful fairy Peter while the supporting cast brings to life friendly Indians fierce pirates and mischievous adventures.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presented King of the Opium Ring a melodrama set in Chinatown San Francisco. Alexander Gaden led the cast with Gertrude Binley as Georgette supported by Edwin Denison Florence Hale and others. The show runs one week only with a large cast and crowd scenes.
Lyceum Theatre presents a three breezy burlesque shows plus three vaudeville acts, including Lizzie Freligh and Ben Jansen with lively stage presence. Jansen yields a Hebrew character impersonation noted as a gem, supported by Blanche Davenport Frank Taylor Nealy Limbach and Harry Koehler. Jansen and Koehler perform in a Yiddish flavored encore style, while Freligh’s I Do Love You captivates audiences. The Far ée Taylor trio delivers the best act of the lineup.
Buffalo ranch setting across the river from Omaha frames a three act farce at the Bijou Theatre this week. Jack Thorndyke narrates adventures with an Indian impostor leading to many humorous mix ups amid a strong cast including Craig MacLarnie Evarts and Colcord. Next week Craig stars as Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four with a full company.
A large Boston audience praised the London musical comedy The Belle of Mayfair now at the Colonial Theatre. American performers led a strong cast with MacDonald Bentley and Carroll delivering engaging singing and comedy as the show moves toward New York engagement next week.
Last night Saint-Saens performed in Boston in honor of the famous French composer. Dr. Muck opened with the overture to Les Barbares, then Saint-Saens played the G minor concerto, praised for breadth and virtuosity. The second part featured waltzes and Haydn’s Andante arrangement, followed by the C minor symphony. The performance impressed critics, and Saint-Saens was recalled amid warm applause before boarding the midnight train to New York. He is set to return the week of December 17 for another program.
A flirtatious exchange reveals the motherly widow status and possible marriage intent. The man argues for acceptance into the family while the woman jokes that the mother may marry him herself, hinting at social maneuvering within a family circle.
Henry W Savage presents Ade comedy at the Tremont drawing large crowds. With tomorrow’s show the production will reach 100 performances in Boston becoming a historic mark for a comedy. The cast features a bustling campus world with youth, sport, tutors, and colorful characters plus a Thanksgiving matinee on Thursday.
The Boston Theatre opens its second week of His Honor the Mayor a breezy musical comedy with 100 performers led by Harry Kelly as Deacon Food and Madelyn Marshall as his daughter. The English Ponies dance group draws encores while Nella Webb shines as Daisy. A Thanksgiving matinee adds to regular shows and Little Johnny Jones follows next Monday for a two week run.
The Globe Theatre reports strong attendance for the second and last week of As We Saw by Rev. John Snyder. The production, praised for its writing and the company’s performance, may extend with continued demand. Edward Harrigan’s Old Lavender will follow next week starting Monday.
Hall Caine's The Prodigal Son, staged at Castle Square, rivals The Christian and The Eternal City in popularity. The cast features Hansel and Waldron as the Stephenson brothers with Lawton Lasche as the heroines, under Caine's direction. Tonight, John Waldron headlines with a souvenir portrait and autobiographical sketch for attendees.
Knocko the Central Park monkey linked to the Caruso case died Saturday night. An autopsy is expected to determine the cause, with suspicions that overindulgence in sweetmeats contributed. The sociable animal attracted crowds during the trial and was moved to the animal hospital before his death.
A strong holiday bill at Keith’s Theatre features Dan Sherman Mabel De Forest and company in A Jay Circus described as a riot of merriment. Acts include the Boller brothers on bicycle and wire, Spessardy’s bears, Burke and Dempsey, Willard Simms in Flinder's Furnished Flat, Lew Sully, Hamilton Hill, the Royal Musical Five, Kremka brothers acrobatics, Will La Belle, Fitzgerald and Trainor, Kittie Stevens dances, Claude Frederick and his horse Don, Walter Daniels in plays, plus kinetograph Alps trip and stereopticon views.
The Theatre Comique in Scollay square offers an strong bill this week headlined by The Automobile Thieves showing new auto misuse and the destruction of a $8000 machine plus the capture of robbers. Smiths Bad Luck presents a comic vignette about the character and his missing wife. A Day in the Country provides straight humor. Illustrations and songs by Bullock Cohan Beasley Mordaunt Fuller Fisher Ellis supplied.
Lafayette wowed a large audience at the Orpheum last night with a carnival of conjuring ending in La Domino Mask. The second act featured The Satyr and His Band with Grecian statue ballet as the Princess de Broglie sang Love Me and the World Is Mine and Annie Laurie. The program included Mag Haggerty's Reception and appearances by Sadie Alferabi, Walters and Prouty, the Rappo sisters, Charles Kenna, Ed Latelle, and a vitagraph segment.
Brutus the lion, touted as the forest’s most majestic captive, drew crowds at Austin & Stone's yesterday with Captain Pere Cardona nearby in the lion pit. The program also featured Till's Marionettes, a giant snake, Trixie and her pythons, a Minstrel Maids concert, comical sketches, dancing acts, and moving pictures in a lively variety show.
Joe Welch and Lee Tung Foo headline a varied bill at the Howard yesterday with ragtag tales and song. The program features the LaVine Cimaron Trio, the Dolans in a Married by License skit, Sousa and Sloan, the Evans Trio, the Burkes songs and steps, Kinkaid the juggler, Shaffers high wire, Samson and Lewis, the Dalys, Butler Haviland and others in a lively variety show.
The new Owen Davis drama A Marka Woman drew patrons to the Grand Opera House last night. The piece depicts a powerful empress and a plot to ruin American fortunes in China, with a decisive intervention by a young American naval officer at Pekin. The production features large scenic effects, Chinese dancers, and a squad of Chinese soldiers.
Father Time shifts the season’s focus as fishing tackle fades and football tactics rise, signaling a year of changing play and sports priorities.
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