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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1916
Page
6
Hollis Street Theatre winds down Arndy Daly’s run with limited shows left this week. He shifts from Shaw style satire to Hermann Bahr drama The Master, famed for human insight, with Take Your Medicine slated for next Monday evening.
An advertisement for Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root touts its purity and herbal blend as a remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims non stimulant action and offers sample bottles by mail with a Boston Daily Post mention.
Maggie Cline returns with emerald gown and new comedy songs in The Irish Queen. Claude Gillingwater stars in The Frame-Up with Jules Herne. California naturalist Charles Kellogg performs The Nature Singer with fire dancing. The Stampede Riders feature Flores LaDue Dan Dix and more. Additional acts include Mabelle Adams Marian Murray Toney Norman Dooley and Dancing LaVars.
A vintage advertisement claims Poslam heals eczema clears complexions and rash pimples and provides an antiseptic for cuts and burns. It also touts Poslam Soap for daily toilet use and invites readers to request a free sample from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
A vintage advertisement pitches Sloan’s Liniment as essential for homes with children, easing minor injuries and pains. It claims quick relief for bruises, bumps, sprains, and general aches like rheumatism and headaches, with prices of 25c, 50c, and $1 at drug stores.
The Tremont Theatre opening night features Raymond Hitchcock in Betty a bright English musical with a large chorus of New York Globe Theatre girls. Ivy Sawyer shines as Betty while Hitchcock performs as a noble relative and delivers witty lines and a memorable closing speech.
Gordon's Olympia offered a top vaudeville bill with The Ten Vassar Girls in miniature musical comedy. Acts by Mack, Albright and Mack, Frank Terry, Cummin and Seeham, Myckoff and Vanity, and Smith and Ralph entertained large crowds. Pauline Frederick starred in Nanette of the Wilds with Pathe News as a feature.
In Jordan Hall last night the Women’s City Club dramatics sub committee staged two one-act plays The Welsh Honeymoon and Nance Oldfield with large attendance. All parts were well taken.
The third week of The Cinderella Man with Shelly Hull and Phoebe Foster opened last evening at the Wilbur Theatre Boston. The comedy has been well received, praised for its unusual home and construction theme and splendidly presented by the supporting company.
Tremont Temple showcased Alice in Wonderland and Snow White to large crowds yesterday. The shows run daily this week from 1 to 10 30 p m with Thanksgiving and Saturday hours extended from 10 am to 10 30 pm. On Saturday Herbert W Gleason will give his travel talk as part of the program.
Somerville Theatre featured the play New England Folks yesterday during Thanksgiving week. The production is noted for homely tenderness, rich humor and appealing pathos reflecting New England country life.
The Tango Queens Burlesquers gave an excellent performance yesterday at the Howard Atheneum introducing Tom Coyne whose humor is original and supported by a capable chorus and cast. The bill included vaudeville acts, comedy by Edmunds and Leedom, a trampoline feature, Nettie Wilson singing, Burke and Arline gymnastics, Albano on the accordion, and a Thanksgiving Day show set to begin at noon.
Felix Martin attracted a large audience at Bowdoin Square Theatre with a popular summer stock style program. The Strand Musical Company, Bowdoin orchestra and Back to Nature Dancers drew praise for performances and stage effects. The Blu Bird photo plays featured The Yaqui with Hobart Bosworth, and The Shielding Shadow aired its ninth episode. The vaudeville lineup included Banjo Trio Warren and Renfrew Nathano brothers and D W Coopers singers. Thanksgiving Day show starts at 10 o'clock.
Waldron's Casino features Dave Marion in The Sporting Widows with The World of Frolics concept and a parade of acts. Mermaid songs shift to a submarine scene with Commander Mannie and Neptune's daughter Agnes Beher, followed by mountain fantasy and Rip Van Winkle era gnomes. The cast includes Snuffy the Cabman, Bert Hall, S H Dudley, Sartoletti and Inez De Verduer among others, plus a beauty chorus and male quartet.
The Exeter screens William S Hart in The Return of Draw Egan and Barney Bernard with Little Bobby Connelly in The Prince in the Pawn Shop. Metro travel pictures and Sidney Drew comedy Henrys Thanksgiving join the lineup. Thursday features Baby Marie Osborn in Shadows and Sunshine and Robert Warwick with Gail Kane in The Heart of a Hero, plus Burton Holmes travel pictures and Bray cartoons.
Fri dokowsky troupe of Russian dancers and singers head the show with faithful native dances. Gordon and Marx entertain, Dave Rafael offers ventriloquism, Hill Ackerman and company perform, Leroy and Seaman with the Three Musical Apellos also appear. Theda Bara in Romeo and Juliet and Jaffery are featured on the picture programme.
Hundreds of juvenile pathfinders filled the Boston Opera House for Boy Scouts night. John Philip Sousa conducted The Boy Scouts March while Sousa's band, an ice ballet en scène, and dazzling ensemble numbers drew tumultuous applause before a huge audience.
The Colonial Theatre began the fifth week of the operetta Sybil starring Julia Sanderson Donald Brian and Joseph Cawthorn. Local theatergoers have embraced the charming musical comedy and the renowned trio of stars.
The Plymouth Theatre show Very Good Eddie draws crowded crowds as another week opens. Leads Alice Dovey and Ernest Truex portray the principal roles with the same company since last August.
Final week of Al Jolson in Robinson Crusoe Jr at the Shubert Theatre features planned theatre parties and Thanksgiving Day festivities. Jolson has enhanced his reputation in this Winter Garden show. Next week Arthur Hammerstein will debut You're in Love at the Shubert.
The second and final week opened last night with Lew Fields leading the bright music and pretty women to a large audience. It is praised as among the best of its kind. Next Monday’s attraction will feature His Majesty Bunker Bean with Taylor Holmes in the title role and a Boston-heavy cast.
Beacon Theatre features include E H Sothern with Peggy Hyland in The Chat tel by Paul West. Myrtle Stedman and Sessue Hayakawa show The Soul of Kura San. Robert Warwick Gail Kane star in The Heart of a Hero about Nathan Hale, plus Louise Huff and Jack Pickford in Seventeen.
Fred Irwin presents The Prince of Good Fellows at the Gaiety Theatre to large crowds. The Nat Nazarro troupe from the Winter Garden headlines the comedy with Emmett Guilfoyle and Joe Roiland as leads. Supporting cast includes William Wainwright Alf Bonner Nat Nazarro George Wong and Jim Nazarro. The chorus is notably expansive and in the Irwine style.
At the Old South Theatre Dorothy Gish shines in Atta Boy's Last Race, a drama centered on a horse with a top race track sequence. Viola Dana appears in The Gates of Eden, while Bessie Barriscale stars in A Corner in Colleens and Maurice Costello in The Crimson Stain Mystery this Thursday through Saturday.
The California Boys Band of 40 under Major Sydney S Peixotto leads a vaudeville and picture bill at the Boston Theatre yesterday. The 30 minute show features talented youths, with Richard Bennett in And The Law Says as the week’s picture feature. Other acts include Neg Norton and Ada Ayres, Sama roff and Sonia, the Russian peasants, Leonard and Willard in Outside the Inn, Noah and Phillips, Gena and Delia Muller in The Yellow Menace, Edwin Stevens and Margaret Gale, and the Boston Theatre Topical Review.
At Loew's Orpheum Theatre yesterday the top act was Into the Light with Dinger mille Montrose. The Moratt opera company followed with fine singers and the rest of the program included Hawthorn and Lester in The Undesirable, Harvey De Vera Trio in Frolics on a Root Garden, Andrew Kelly, Joe Jealy and sister, Well dressed pair, Miller and Bradford, a Keystone comedy, Pathe News, and Mary Pickford in Less Than the Dust.
The Park Theatre seats overflow for a rare production in Boston. Gail Kane Arthur Ashley Montagu Love and Muriel Ostriche star in The Men She Married a tale of heiress Beatrice Raymond. Also on bill Harold Lockwood May Allison in Big Tremaine Henry's Thanksgiving with Sidney Drew Selig Tribune and Frank Savasta Laura Mae Lamport.
Washington Theatre features Frank Keenan and Enid Markey in Jim Grimsby’s Bay a mountain tale where Markey plays a girl raised as a boy. Anita King Maurice Costello star in other features The Heir to the Hoorah and The Crimson Stain Mystery. Wilfred Lucas Sessue Hayakawa and Helen Holmes headline next acts The Microscope Mystery The Soul of Kura San and The Lass of the Lumberland.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre showcases the Back to Nature Dancers this week in an artful program. Costumes complement nature themes with pieces like The North Wind The Spirit of Winter Wind and Winter and a Ladder Formation drawing high praise.
Russian actress Nazimovs is featured this week at Globe Theatre in War Brides a drama of thrills with well sustained interest.
Mme. Guilbert Yvette Guilbert schedules two matinee appearances in Boston at the Wilbur on December 5 and 7. Her program features medieval songs not yet presented locally along with numbers beloved by her American audience. The set includes rare Joan of Arc era selections from a Vigiles du Martial Dauvergne manuscript, dating to 1484.
A trusted white ointment on the bathroom shelf provides quick relief for croup sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis stiff neck asthma neuralgia headache congestion rheumatism lumbago and general pains. It soothes sprains sore muscles bruises chilblains and frost bitten feet and may help prevent pneumonia.
A patient praises D. D. D. Prescription for eczema after years of suffering. The letter cites dramatic relief and urges others to try the liquid wash, with directions to request a free trial bottle from D. D. D. Laboratories in Chicago.
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