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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1922
Page
9
Miriam Cooper stars in Kindred of the Dust while Gladys Walton appears in Top of the Morning at Exeter Street Theatre today and Wednesday. The week closes with Marshall Neilan's Fools First and Mabel Ballin in Married People.
Waldron's Casino presents Joe Hurtig's Bowery Burlesquers in Here There and Everywhere a three in one show with vaudeville and two feature films Shadows of Conscience and A Wide Open Town Billy Foster leads a cast including Frank Harcourt Marty Lemon Mildred Cecil Fay and Florence Spencer and Rose Estelle Mack and 18 member beauty chorus provide rapid energy throughout the performance.
Norman Talmadge starred in The Eternal Flame at the Fenway Theatre last evening alongside Doris May in Up and At Em. The program included short subjects, a recital on the big organ, and a full musical slate.
Houdini appeared at the Globe Theatre with a photoplay titled The Man From Beyond, about reviving a man frozen in Arctic ice and a Niagara Falls rescue. Mystic Clayton offered a mystifying and entertaining show. Friday features a ladies matinee and Saturday a children’s matinee.
The Henry Jewett Repertory Company offered Arnold Bennett's wartime England satire The Title at the Fine Arts Theatre last evening. The plot follows an English gentleman who resists a title but is pressed by wife and children into accepting a baronetcy, with strong performances from Catherine Willard, Charles Warburton, and E. E. B. Cleve.
The Gayety presents Giggles this week with Valéska as prima donna leading a chorus of Valéska Gertrude Avery Mildred Simmons Florence Radcliffe and five girl jazz band members Kincaid Marigold in ragtime numbers. William Davis Harry Evenson Bert Marks provide the comedy and musical backing.
The Somerville Theatre hosts Joseph Granby in Disraeli to mixed acclaim. Granby delivers a thoughtful, intelligent portrayal rivaling George Arliss, with Mrs. George A. Hibbard as Lady Beaconsfield and strong support. Next week brings The Fascinating Widow with Tommy Martel.
The family crowds Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia this week to see Jackie Coogan in Trouble along with news, comics, pictorials, and an exceptional vaudeville bill completing the program.
The listing shows continuing attractions at venues including Boston Opera House with Robert Mantell in repertory, Hollis Nice People, Plymouth Thurston the Magician, Selwyn Shuffle Along, Shubert Tangerine, Tremont Little Nellie Kelly, Tremont Temple With Eustace in Africa, and Wilbur The Bat.
At the Boston Theatre this week the play More to Be Pitied Than Scorned stars Alice Lake and an all star cast. The drama centers on a leading lady who loves the hero while the villain loves the hero's wife. On their fifth wedding anniversary a tragic misunderstanding unfolds before a spellbinding climax that rights the wrongs and punishes the evil. Also featured are Blanche and Jimmie Creighton in Mudtown Vaudeville with Marshall Montgomery the ventriloquist delivering a strong act.
The Howard Athenaeum hosted the Band Box Revue by G. E. Lothrop with comedians Jack LaMont and Jack Faquay. Notable performers included Mildred Coszierre Lillian Harrison Trixie Ayres Howard Harrison James G. Moore and Harry LaToy. A Hedley Trio Musical Geralds and Gene Morgan acted alongside a film featuring Joe Moore in The Problem Eternal. World series baseball returns were announced via direct wire.
Town Talk at the Shu bert Majestic Theatre opened yesterday starring Johnny Dooley with a lineup including Bert Walton James B Carson Edna Northlane and Gertude Hayes among others as the clever entertainment vehicle draws crowds.
Riano Ward and chorus deliver a Zeigfeld style number. Johnny Dooley entertains with old stunts and new ones in vaudeville style. Speedy the clerk draws laughs while Bert Walton debuts a familiar gag with sharp timing. Also featured are Frank Bacon Nina Fontaine in skating and a nonsense act by Riano Northlane Ward.
The stage production “Three Wise Fools” by Austin Strong played at the St James Theatre last night. The Boston Stock Company delivered strong capital acting with continuous laughter as three elderly bachelors share a house with a young woman and her lover, a burglar, and a swirl of comic complications led by Kiveta Nudsen and Walter Gibbs in key roles.
Owen Moore stars in Love Is an Awful Thing at Modern and Beacon Theatres as Anthony Churchill facing marriage chaos with an old flame. Margery Dan co-stars with Dustin Farnum in The Yosemite Trail, while Our Gang showcases clever children and animals in a light comedy program.
Paramount’s picturization of Denman Thompson’s The Old Homestead plays at Loew’s State Theatre this week. Director James Cruze delivers a faithful version with Uncle Josh Whitcomb Theodore Roberts Reuben Harrison Ford Eph George Fawcett Ann Frits Ridgeway Happy Jack T. Roy Barnes. Billie Dove Cullen Landis star in Youth to Youth and a Jack White comedy Look Out Below rounds out the program.
Mrs Rudolph Valentino, wife of the screen star, receives an ovation at Bowdoin Square Theatre where she tells her life story. She appears all week with public receptions planned in the foyer. The program includes One Clear Call with Claire Windsor and others, plus vaudeville acts and baseball replays.
Guy Bates Post, noted stage star, appears on screen at Gordon's Olympia Theatre Washington Street in a celluloid version of The Masquerader. He previously played the dual roles on stage for six years delivering a wider, more convincing portrayal in this photoplay.
The Lancaster Theatre opened yesterday with Rich Men's Wives and the film A Woman of No Importance. Thursday's programme features Jack Holt in While Satan Sleeps and Corinne Griffith in Divorce Coupons.
A horse owned by L A Puma bolted from a baker's wagon driven by Antone Pignone on Henderson street Arlington, racing to Massachusetts avenue and Cambridge. Patrolman Mulqueeney chased the horse in a car, rescued passengers, and restrained the animal after it tore the door from a surface car.
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