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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1916
Page
22
Hollis Street Theatre patrons learn Arndy Daly has only a few nights left of his run at the Hollis Street Theatre. He showcases versatility with a German stage piece The Master by Hermann Bahr before Take Your Medicine opens next Monday evening.
An advertisement promotes Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root as a pure, non stimulant herbal remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It advises consulting a druggist and offers a sample by mail for ten cents, noting two bottle sizes and nationwide availability.
Maggie Cline returns in original form at Keiths Theatre with a green gown and new comedy songs. The Irish Queen captivates the audience and must sing Throw Him Down McCluskey. Claude Gillingwater debuts The Frame-Up with Julie Herne. Charles Kellogg The Nature Singer performs a fire dance and rubbing-sticks fire act. The Stampede Riders headline with Flores LaDue Dan Dix and other supporting acts.
Ad promotes Poslam antiseptic for skin conditions including eczema rashes pimples and complexions. It touts healing effects after each use and suggests Poslam Soap as daily cleanser. Free sample offer available from Emergen cy Laboratories New York City. sold by all druggists.
The Tremont Theatre opens Betty a new musical by Raymond Hitchcock. It features a large chorus of fashionable girls from the Globe Theatre and an English flavored plot about a kitchen maid who marries a titled rake. Hitchcock and Ivy Sawyer headline with many supporting performers and lavish costumes.
The Gordon's Olympia show drew large crowds with The Ten Vassar Girls in a miniature musical, Mack, Albright and Mack delivering a full act, Frank Terry as a character actor, Cum min and Seeham in a novelty set, Myckoff and Vanity in a dancing routine, Smith and Ralph in a double act, Pauline Frederick in Nanette of The Wilds, and a Pathe News feature.
In Jordan Hall last night the Women’s City Club dramatics subcommittee staged two one acts, The Welsh Honeymoon and Nance Oldfield, with many members in attendance and all roles well acted.
The third week of the Cinderella Man opened last evening at the Wilbur Theatre with Shelly Hull and Phoebe Foster in principal roles. Boston audiences welcomed the comedy and praised the company supporting the two leads for its spirited presentation.
Tremont Temple hosted Alice in Wonderland and Snow White drawing crowds of all ages. The films run daily 1 to 10 30 pm this week with Thanksgiving and Saturday extended 10 am to 10 30 pm. Herbert W. Gleason will present a travel talk Saturday as part of the program.
Somerville Theatre featured New England Folks during Thanksgiving week, a play praised for homely tenderness rich humor and appealing pathos rooted in New England country life.
The Howard Atheneum hosted a mixed program featuring the Tango Queens Burlesquers with Tom Coyne delivering original humor. The bill included vaudeville acts Edmunds and Leedom, Dunbar and Dunbar trampoline act, Nettie Wilson singing, Burke and Arline gymnastic duo, Albano on accordion, and a Thanksgiving matinee at noon.
Felix Martin drew a large crowd at Bowdoin Square Theatre with a summer stock style performance. The Strand Musical Company showcased clever comedians and strong singers while the Back to Nature dancers impressed with original poses and stage effects. The Bowls Bird photo plays presented The Yaqui with Hobart Bosworth, and The Shielding Shadow’s ninth episode entertained. vaudeville featured Banjo Trio Warren and Renfrew Nathano brothers and D W Coopers singers. Thanksgiving Day show starts at 10 oclock a m.
Waldron's Casino hosts Dave Marion with The World of Frolics offering wondrous entertainment. Mermaids, a submarine scene with Commander Mannie and Neptune's daughter, and a spoof set atop Catskill heights feature Snuffy the Cabman and a variety of acts. Cast includes H. Kittredge, Henry Plunkett, Bert Hall, S. H. Dudley, Sartoletti, Inez De Verduer, plus a beauty chorus and male quartet.
The Exeter proffers a program led by William S Hart in The Return of Draw Egan with Barney Bernard and Little Bobby Connelly in The Prince in the Pawn Shop. Metro travel pics and Sidney Drew comedy Henrys Thanksgiving headline the screen. Thursday shows feature Baby Marie Osborne in Shadows and Sunshine and Robert Warwick with Gail Kane in The Heart of a Hero along with Burton Holmes travel reels and Bray cartoons.
The Fri dekowsky troupe of Russian dancers and singers opened the program at Scollay Square Olympia. Gordon and Marx provided amusement, followed by Dave Rafael in ventriloquism, Hill and Ackerman in comedy, and Leroy and Seaman with the Three Musical Apellos. The picture program featured Theda Bara in Romeo and Juliet and the feature Jaffery.
Hundreds of juvenile pathfinders cheered the Hip Hip Hooray Scouts at the Boston Opera House last night as John Philip Sousa and his band performed The Boy Scouts March. The program also featured Sousa numbers, the Charlotte ice ballet, striking scenery, and dazzling ensemble numbers to a large audience.
The fifth week of the charming coD eretta Sybil began at the Colonial Theatre with Julia Sanderson Donald Brian and Joseph Cawthorn delighting old friends and winning new ones. Local audiences have given themselves over to the musical comedy with the famed trio. Sanderson’s beauty and daintiness please the crowd Brian dances more delightfully than ever and Cawthorn’s work amuses continually.
Plymouth Theatre production Very Good Eddie nears its close as Boston crowds fill the house for another week. Leads Alice Dovey and Ernest Truex headline with their long-time company partners continuing since last August.
Final week of Al Jolson in Robinson Crusoe Jr at the Shubert Theatre with planned theatre parties and Thanksgiving Day festivities. Jolson’s Winter Garden show has boosted his reputation. next week Arthur Hammerstein debuts Youre in Love at the Shubert.
The second and final week opens with Lew Fields leading the show at the Majestic Theatre. The performance attracts a large audience with bright music and pretty women. Next Monday brings His Majesty Bunker Bean starring Taylor Holmes and a Boston favorites cast.
The Beacon Theatre features E H Sothern with Peggy Hyland in The Chat tel by Paul West and also shows Myrtle Stedman with Sessue Hayakawa in The Soul of Kura San. Later in the week Robert Warwick and Gail Kane star in The Heart of a Hero about Nathan Hale with Louise Huff and Jack Pickford in Seventeen.
Fred Irwin presents The Prince of Good Fellows at the Gaiety Theatre before large crowds. Nat Nazarro troupe, formerly of Winter Garden, shines with Emmett Guilfoyle and Joe Rolland as lead comedians. Supporting cast includes William Wainwright Alf Bonner Nat Nazarro George Wong and Jim Nazarro. Chorus described as large and Irwinesque.
Dorothy Gish stars in a drama centered on a horse with a standout race track sequence billed as a top attraction at the Old South Theatre. Viola Dana appears in The Gates of Eden, with Bessie Barriscale in A Corner in Colleens and Maurice Costello in The Crimson Stain Mystery on the same program.
The vaudeville program offers a 30 minute show featuring Richard Bennet in And The Law Says and acts like Ned Norton Ada Ayres Sama roff Sonia the Russian peasants Leonard Willard Outside the Inn Noahana Phillips Gene and Delia Muller The Yellow Menace with Edwin Stevens and Margaret Gale plus the Boston Theatre Topical Review presented at the Boston Theatre.
The Orpheum bill featured Into the Light with Smillie Montrose as star attraction. The Moratti opera company performed with a strong chorus while Hawthorn presented The Undesirable. Other acts included Trio in Frolics, Lester in Harvey De Vora, Andrew Kelly, Jon Dealy and sister, a well dressed pair, Miller and Bradford, plus a Keystone comedy and Pathe News. The feature photo play starred Mary Pickford in Less Than the Dust.
Park Theatre fills the large Boston auditorium with a standout program headlined by The Men She Married starring Gail Kane Arthur Ashley Montagu Love and Muriel Ostriche. The companion feature Big Tremaine stars Harold Lockwood and May Allison along with Henry's Thanksgiving by Sidney Drew Selig Tribune Frank Savasta and Laura Mae Lamport on the bill.
The Washington Theatre features Frank Keenan and Enid Markey in Jim Grimsby Bay a tale of a mountain daughter raised as a boy Miss Markey appears in all five acts in boyish attire Also on the program Anita King Maurice Costello star in The Heir to the Hoorah and The Crimson Stain Mystery Wilfred Lucas Sessue Hayakawa and Helen Holmes headline evenings The Microscope Mystery The Soul of Kura San and The Lass of the Lumberland run Thursday to Saturday
The Bowdoin Square Theatre presents the Back to Nature Dancers this week showcasing highly artistic dancing. Notable performances include The North Wind The Spirit of Winter Wind and Winter A Ladder Formation and more with costumes matching the nature themes.
Nazimova appears at the Globe Theatre this week in War Brides amplified from the short play. The Russian actress delivers thrills and sustained interest in this dramatic presentation seen in the city.
Mme Yvette Guilbert to appear in two Dec 5 and 7 matinees at the Wilbur Boston. Her program features medieval songs not yet sung here and popular numbers beloved by her American audience. The set includes two Joan of Arc era selections from a manuscript by Vigiles du Martial Dauvergne (1484) presented to Charles VII.
The ad touts Resinol Ointment as a long trusted remedy for itching and eruptions. It claims instant relief in many cases and quick healing, noting physicians have prescribed it for over 20 years and that samples are available from Baltimore.
An old household ad extols Musterole a white oil of mustard ointment used for quick relief of sore throat bronchitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia headache congestion rheumatism lumbago sprains and more. It claims the product will not blister like a mustard plaster and highlights its place on the bathroom shelf as a trusted family remedy.
A Boston reader reports long eczema years with little relief until using D. D. D. Prescription. She calls it the best remedy and urges others with skin eruptions to try the liquid wash, noting many cures and inviting a free trial from D. D. D. Laboratories, Chicago.
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