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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1898
Page
6
The French Maid wowed a crowded Park Theatre audience with dainty, chic humor and lively song. New York run of 3800 nights set high expectations, but the Boston debut found the piece generally comical with no coarse lines.
William Broderick plays Will Scarlet delivering careful portrayal and solid singing while Helen Bertram earns enthusiastic applause as Maid Marian in rich page costume. William MacDonald Little John and William Philp Robin Hood maintain strong, attentive performances with George Frothingham as the Vicar. show runs this week only.
The production combines bright lines catchy music and a stable strong cast led by Anna Held in the title role. Clever principals including Charles A. Bigelow and Edouard Jose deliver merriment while Eva Davenport Yolande Wallace Gerry Ames and Mamie Forbes add charm. The chorus is neat and the show lively with Frenchy dancing and Parisian flavor.
Capacity crowd packs Castle Square Theatre as The Great Diamond Robbery delights Boston with Lillian Lawrence leading a strong cast. The production and performances earn high praise, with Mary Sanders and Marian Chapman among others drawing acclaim. The show runs only this week, ahead of Martha Morton’s Brother John next week.
Enthusiastic audience at the Boston Theatre greeted the Robin Hood opera with warm encore after encore. Henry Clay Barnabee portrayed the Sheriff of Nottingham with enhanced humor while Jessie Bartlett Davis delivered familiar arias, adding to the charm of the evening.
A brief ad-like note promotes Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as a remedy for whooping cough and croup. The text includes a cautionary phrase about dosage or age limits and ends with a fragmented admonition.
Fanny McIntyre delivers a superb Hazel Kirke performance praised as the finest seen in this city. The Bowdoin Square company also features Snader, Mamie Gilroy, Charlotte Hunt, Frank Lyman, E R Philip, and John Gilroy in a well staged, costumed production. A matinee daily draws families, with next week presenting Woman Against Woman.
Ladies in the lower floor and first balcony will receive silver souvenirs. Phebe Davies Odell Williams and their capable cast have won many friends during their stay and their departure is noted with regret. Frank Daniels, with a strong company, opens the Tremont Theatre season next Monday night presenting The Idol's Eye and then revives The Wizard of the Nile the following Monday. The engagement runs two weeks only.
A full Columbia Theatre audience greeted Chauncey Olcott last night with standing room only. Encores were demanded as the star gave generous responses. His acting has improved since last in the city, shedding his former stiff manner for earnest, easy stage presence. Cumberland '61' will follow Oct. 10.
The current Keith's program features a parade of acts including John Le Clair the deft juggler and illusionist, the Gleesons, Edward I Boyle, Cal Stewart, Gallando, Antoinette Cyr and Eddie Hill, Grace Smith, George Thatcher and Ed Marble, Lew Bloom and Jane Cooper, Iler Burke and McDonald, Emma Carus, Adelman and Lowe the xylophone virtuosi, and J. H. Stoddart in The Long Strike. New biographs and Paris fire department film also impress, with Red Cross and hotel-fire rescue scenes highlighted.
The Rays presented a lively three act farce last evening before a crowded house at the Grand Opera House. Johnny Ray as Larry Mooney drew laughs with vivid stage presence while a strong supporting cast and a clever cake walk by Dave Genaro and Ray Bailey kept the audience in constant laughter. The play features a well defined plot with frequent laughable surprises and a peak of uproar in the second act. Thomas Shea will follow next week with The Man-o'-Warsman.
At Hollis Street Theatre the second week of Maude Adams in The Little Minister drew a wild rush for tickets and widespread praise. Her portrayal of Lady Babbie impressed audiences with grace in multiple costumes while Charles Frohman’s company received strong notices for adept supporting roles. Matinees are being offered, but early seating is advised due to heavy advance sales.
The Tremont Theatre presents the last New England performances of Way Down East this week before the company returns East next year. The run ends next Saturday night after a prosperous engagement that drew full houses and standing room daily, despite an unusually hot August. The Wednesday matinee drew strong demand for tickets.
The High Roller Burlesquers opened at the new Dewey Theatre in New York with an extraordinary burlesque bill. The show features The Chink Girls in two scenes, American Venus Sylvia Starr, Washburn sisters, Mile. Fabianu, Lew Randall, Tom Nolen, and Gibbons and Barrett. The closing burlesque A Lady of Quality parodies the stage hit. Additional vaudeville acts include De Renda and Breen, Brandon and Finley, and many others. Next week Al Reeves brings a large burlesque troupe to town.
Jermons new Black Crook burlesque company appears at the Grand Theatre this week with the Thomas and Watson comedy troupe. The opening number The 4 A M Club features twenty five pretty girls and a dozen clever comedians. The curtain raiser presents three original vaudeville acts including the Bijou Comedy Trio.
A Boston reader details hereditary kidney weakness and credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing chronic back pain urinary trouble and mucous sediment. The testimonial cites lifelong struggle since childhood, a move to use Curtis drugstore and Foster Milburn Co. as U.S. agents, and a large crowd at the museum following the cure.
General sale opened yesterday morning with a long line of buyers seeking prime seats. The Star Course enters its nineteenth season with unchanged prices for twenty consecutive Monday night shows. Many good seats remain and can be reserved at Tremont Temple box office before the October 17 opening. Brooke's Chicago Marine Band will headline the opener.
The Boston Theatre hosts the advance guard of The White Heather, Frohman’s spectacular production last season in New York. First Boston presentation Monday evening. Seat sale opened with modest demand and likely standing room only for opening night. Cast details follow.
The Hebrew dramatic company staged Shulamith last night at the Palace Theatre with Lizie Einhorn in the title role. She impressed the crowd and will stay with manager Lazars Mintnick’s company. David Levenson led the cast, joined by F. Eisenberg, Mr. and Mrs. B. Kestin, Mr. B. Linkman, and Mr. Fer kauf as others. Mintnick spoke between acts.
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