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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1922
Page
9
Central Square Theatre presents Mary Carr in Silver Wings a William Fox production with Christie comedy Pardon My Glove plus the latest news weekly and special musical accompaniments assuring a varied program for the audience last night.
Minstrelsy with the old-time flavor was revived at the Arlington Theatre last night, delivering a nostalgic performance to the audience. The show blended vintage musical numbers with period-style humor and flair.
Harovey's Greater Minstrels staged a lively program featuring headliners Margaret Jackson the Black Patti and Johnny Woods. An octet chorus of 50 provided notable entertainment as the engagement continues for two weeks. Monograms marked green apples with blue ink for ranch consignors on a Western ranch.
Lieutenant Harold Goettler, who died delivering food by air to the Lost Battalion in the Argonne in 1918, is posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. His mother, Mrs. Gertrude Goettler, and others from Adams Street Medford and West Newton will receive the honors at an Army Base on a date to be arranged.
Lionel Barrymore stars as Boston Blackie a reformed crook in The Face in the Fog at Loews Orpheum Theatre this week. The plot involves Russian terrorists detectives and a jewel heist centered on the Romanoff crown Gems with Blackie ultimately returning the jewels to the Secret Service. The cast includes Leena Owen Lowell Sherman Mary MacLaren Gustave Von Seyffertitz and Louis Wolheim with a vaudeville opener by Billy Kinkaid plus several acts.
The Comedie Francaise company under Mlle Cecile Sorel with Albert Lambert and Louis Ravet began a one week engagement at the Boston Opera House. It marks a rare visit by France’s national theatre to this country and is hailed as a significant dramatic event.
All cast arrive on first visit to the city with Mile Sorel famed yet a stranger here. The Adventuress by Emile Augier shows an Italian nobleman, Clorinde, Annibal and Fabrice in a tale of love, deceit, and family tension. The two principal actors, Lambert and Ravet, display French training and pantomime skill as the repertory lists Camille Le Mirope Le Demie and Leel.
The Cameo Revue at the Majestic Theatre drew warm applause last night. Roy Cummings remains uproarious while Kyra and Florence Schubert delivered popular dances and songs. Ann Toddings Viola Votruba Jack Keller and the team of Frank and Ray Purcella offered varied numbers praised for talent.
Modern and Beacon theaters show two photoplays led by The Kentucky Derby story set on a Kentucky plantation with a dramatic horse race climax. Florence Vidor stars in Dusk to Dawn a mystery drama about a girl with double personalities and dual locales in the western world and the Orient.
At Lancaster Theatre yesterday Milton Sills and Wanda Hawley starred in Burning Bands on the bill with a special cast in The Song of Life. Thursday plans include a picturization of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda.
The Cape Cod comedy Shavings was presented by Manager McArdle during Thanksgiving week. Jed Winslow was played by Harry Bond with skill, and Mrs. George A. Hibbard Ann Hamilton Peggy Shaner Philip Sheffield and other company members were seen in congenial roles.
Rodolph Valen tino stars in The Young Rajah shown at Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia yesterday. The program featured the latest news and comic reel with an exceptional vaudeville bill.
Johnny Weber headlined the Kand y Kids burlesque at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston. The veteran performer received a warm reception from burlesque fans while Dolores Leon Grace Tremont Sophie Wilson and others joined the chorus in a lively stage show.
Local theatre offered a lively burlesque with a long list of performers including Price, Madlyn Scott, Gloria Wilson, Harriet Mandell, Sylvia Conners, Irene Powers and Nellie Brown. A vaudeville segment featured the Kanazwa Japs, Felix Martin and Rose Emmett, Bender and Armstrong, plus Wallace Reid in Rent Free and Partners of the Tide.
Tom Mix, famed western star, appears at the Boston Theatre this week in Arabia a romance set in foreign lands. An American cowboy impersonates an Arabian heir to help an actress elope, is captured, and journeys through desert intrigue with desert robbers and perilous stunts. The program includes lively vaudeville features.
Today and Wednesday the Exeter Street Theatre features Betty Compson and Bert Lytell in To Have and to Hold from a popular novel and Buster Keaton in The Frozen North. Later in the week George Arliss stars in The Man Who Played God and Madge Bellamy in Lorna Doone.
The Light in the Dark stars Hope Hampton as Bessie McGregor in Gordon's Olympia Theatre run. A wealthy benefactor rescues, a brother flees, and a crook aids before a happy ending. Also on the program Lloyd Hamilton in The Educator and vaudeville with George Morton, Piker Douglas, Pierrott and Schofield, Besser and Irvin, and Eileen.
The advertisement touts Musterole as an easy to apply white ointment made from oil of mustard and other hot simples. It claims doctors and nurses recommend it for sore throat chest colds rheumatism lumbago pleurisy stiff neck bronchitis asthma neuralgia and various pains and sprains. It sells for 35c per jar or tube with hospital size option and claims to be better than mustard plasters.
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