Keith Shows Two Novelties At Keith's Theatre This Week
Vaudeville at R F Keith's features Sam Chip and Mary Marble as Dutch clocks in The Clock Shop a rhymed three scene fantasy with animated time pieces and catchy music. William Courtleigh's Peaches keeps audiences laughing with Dick Crolius as Biff Donovan. The California Orange Packers display fast packing and box building with three boxes at once. Also notable are Violet Dale Nazimova impressions and Pathe News artillery pictures from France.
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Sam Chip
Mary Marble
R. F. Keith
Mr. Chip
Miss Marble
William Courtleigh
George W. Hobart
Louise Lowe
Ethel Dale
Rogers
Adams
Violet Dale
Nazimova
Miles Pavlova
Leslie Carter
May Vokes
Richard Carle
Lillian Shaw
Alfred Bergen
Hawthorne and
Ingliss
Brazil
Middleton and
Spellmyer
van Brothers
Dancing LaVars
Pathe
France
Back Home at Plymouth Theatre Provides American Life Drama
The play Back Home opens its first full week at Plymouth Theatre. Bayard Veiller aims for a wholesome Southern life drama with Judge Priest inspired material from Irvin Cobb and Willis Sweatnam in a prominent negro role. John W. Cope portrays the Judge with strength.
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Plymouth Theatre
James A. Herne
Denman Thompson
Bayard Veiller
South
Dixie
Irvin Cobb
Judge Priest
Willis P. Sweatnam
John W. Cope
The Little Gypsy at Modern Theatre Affects Scotland
A charming photo play titled The Little Gypsy plays at Modern Theatre this week. Dorothy Bernard stars as the lead in a romance set in old Scotland with moody hills and heather. The program also features Astor Cup auto races at the Sheepshead Speedway, a film of the United States Mint machine, other short plays, and an organ recital.
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Scotland
Dorothy Bernard
Sheepshead
Long Island
United States
Curiosity Play On Trial Charms Boston Audience
The curiosity play On Trial wins Boston praise for suspenseful plot and strong performances. Marie Leonhard as the wife and Frederick Perry as the husband lead a capable cast, with others chosen for their adaptability to the varied roles.
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Boston
Messrs. Cohan
Harris
Marie Leonhard
Frederick Perry
Twin Beds at Park Square Theatre Stages Funful Seventh Week
The comedy Twin Beds continues its seventh week at Park Square Theatre delivering rollicking laughter. Six people in couples share a New York apartment in a three floor building as they chase peace and quiet. An extra matinee is offered today.
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Park Square Theatre
New York
Victor Moore Stars in Chimmie Fadden at Exeter
Victor Moore leads the Exeter engagement with the photo play Chimmie Fadden for the first half of the week. The production blends humor and pathos to appeal to American audiences.
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Victor Moore
the Exeter
Howard Atheneum Burlesque Scoreboard Delights Boston Fans
Howard Atheneum fans enjoyed Rodier scoreboard display during the series. The Darlings of Paris company offered sparkling burlesque with Grace L. Anderson and Murphy delivering wit and song. The Picchelli troupe and Solomines drew strong applause, with Ted and Clara Steele and other acts shaping a lively vaudeville program.
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Rodier
The
Howard
Boston
Darlings of Paris Company
Frank P. Murphy
Grace L. Anderson
Josie Dennis
Mae Clark
Picchelli
Murphy
Delmar
Ted
Clara Steele
Ed Rowley
Wood
Mathews
George
John Pereli
Jim Ryan
George Tuohey
Sam Cohen
Chaplin Shangaied at Boston Theatre This Week
Charlie Chaplin leads a two show weekly program at the Boston Theatre with Shanghaied the full six days. The program features Edmund Breese in The Song of the Wage Slave and Mary Pickford comedies. Irene Fenwick headlines the last three days in The Woman Next Door with other stars such as Lillian Lorraine Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish in supporting features.
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Charlie Chaplin
Boston
Chaplin
China Seas
Charlie
Edmund Breese
Robert W. Service
Yukon
Mr. Breese
Mary Pickford
Caroline B. Nichols
Billy
Robert Harron
Clair McDowell
Irene Fenwick
Owen Davis
Woman Next
Navy
Lillian Lorraine
William Courtleigh, Jr
Mae Marsh
Lillian Gish
Henry Walthall
Independent Means to Debut by Copley Players at Toy Theatre
Boston theatregoers will witness the first Boston stage presentation of Stanley Houghton's Independent Means by the Copley players at the Toy Theatre on Dartmouth Street. A private dress rehearsal was held last evening to ensure readiness for the opening tonight at 8 30. The six member cast includes Max Montesole Alice Moffat Viola Compton Agnes Elliot Scott Hubert Pierce and Trenry Crocker. Curtain rises promptly at 8 30 each evening.
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Stanley Houghton
Boston
Copley
Toy Theatre
Dartmouth Street
Max Montesole
Alice Moffat
Viola Compton
Agnes Elliot Scott
Hubert Pierce
Trenry Crocker
Ex plorer leads St James Theatre bill this week
A top season show at the St James Theatre features the photo play The Explorer with Lou Tellengen in the lead and a capable company. Vaudeville includes Dawson and Claire in Just Kids, the Brown-Fletcher trio in Christmas Five, Clayton and Lennie, the Jolly Jack Tars, Kay and Vernon, and the Berlin serenaders introducing the new film song We'll Have a Jubilee in Our Old Kentucky Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James Theatre
the Explorer
Lou Tellengen
Dawson and
Claire
Brown-Fletcher
Creatore to Open Boston Hippodrome Season with Concerts
The regular season of the Boston Hippodrome at Tremont and Berkete streets will begin Monday afternoon October 18. Creatore and his 50 musicians will perform twice daily with additional artists and feature films. He serves as musical director, arranging music for films and leading the band for all performances and accompaniments.
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Boston Hippodrome
Tremont
Berkete Streets
National Theatre
Creatore
Boston
Hippodrome
Gordon's Olympia Theatre Showbill Highlights
Gordon's Olympia presents Billy's Tombstone featuring Sidney Drew, plus Kelley and Wilder high class musical and singing, Sona and company with Great Men Past and Present, Bashful Billy with Frank and Eldria Fisher, Roehn's athletic girls Nina the banjoist and Geoffrey L Whalen in photo play lectures, and Youth among several other recent releases.
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Gordon
Olympia
Billy
Sidney Drew
Kelley and Wilder Company
Sona and Company
Frank and
Eldria Fisher
Nobody Iome begins in Boston with warm reception
A large Hollis audience welcomed the musical comedy Nobody Iome as it started its Boston run. The company, now settled in its new quarters, delivered performance with the same smoothness and polish that has marked its prior appearances.
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Hollis
Boston
Ziegfelds Wollies Open at Colonial Theater in Grand Style
The last half of Ziegfeld's Wollies opened at the Colonial Theatre last evening with a large, enthusiastic crowd and the familiar hearty applause. Ziegfeld presented a more elaborate show than ever, filled with novelties and lavish elements.
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Ziegfeld
Bowdoin Square Theatre Presents Giant Vaudeville Bill
A massive Bowdoin Square Theatre vaudeville program runs this week with Lorna troupe European acrobats Elliott and Mullen Darktown Frolic Three O Neil sisters and Charles Diamond Duo harpists Nash and Evans Reine Ruth Belmar Lane and Collins O Neil Harrington and Rathskeller Tuo in acts A special moving picture segment features The Offending Kiss Essanay The Whirlpool Lubin Teasing a Tornado Chaplin appears in a new piece The second half adds Arabian Whirlwinds Four Dancing Harmonists Montana Girls Max Holden DeMarcos Nelson Duo Darling sisters Warley and Butler Neal of the Navy and more Chaplin acts plus thrilling reels The show starts today at 10 oclock.
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Bowdoin Square Theatre
Lorna
Elliott
Mullen
Nash and Evans
Reine
Ruth Belmar
Lane
Collins
O'Neil
Harrington
Rathskeller
Charlie Chaplin
Max Holden
DeMarcos
Nelson
Darling Sisters
Warley
Butler
Sam Barber
Neal
The
Navy
Thrilling Moving Pictures
Waldron's Casino Presents The Smiling Beauties Show
Waldron's Casino hosts The Smiling Beauties a lively vaudeville style bill led by Morton Emerson with Irish and tramp characters. The Beauty Palace includes two star comedians and a chorus of dancers plus Zella Russell and a lineup of notable performers delivering comedy song and dance. Matinee updates promise prompt reading of the World Series results from the stage.
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Waldron
Harry IX
Morton
Joe Emerson
John G. Jermon
Jacobs & Jermon
Maude Dorsey
Margaret Ruthland
Edythe Warwick
Emma Read
Sadie Fairchild
Marie Doherty
Lew Heslin
Billie Innis
Herman Steinman
Pair of Silk Stockings charms Boston Wilbur crowd
Cyril Har court's charming comedy A Pair of Silk Stockings began its second week at the Wilbur Theatre last night to a well filled house. The Boston engagement runs three weeks, with Sam Sothern in the principal role drawing notice as a noteworthy event for the celebrated Sothern family.
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Cyril Harcourt
Wilbur Theatre
Boston
the Wilbur
Sam Sothern
Sothern
The Million Dollar Dolls at Gaiety Theatre
Lew Hilton and Lester Allen headline Hotel de Gink at the Gaiety Theatre with a witty pair of Hebrew and road comedian acts. Frances St. Clair and Elsie Meadows provide pleasing vocal numbers as the varied programme delivers lively chorus work and entertaining drollery.
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Lew Hilton
Lester Allen
Hotel de Gink
Gaiety Theatre
Frances St. Clair
Elsie Meadows
Pleasing variety show at Scollay Square Olympia Theatre
A varied program at the Olympia Theatre in Scollay Square yesterday featured Kelley and Berg the nut comedians Patrice and Company in The Lobbyist Pete Griffin the Piccolo Midgets Jones and Cutie and Sam J Curtis and his golf girls in a miniature musical comedy The Mutual masterpicture Bred in the Bone in four acts featuring Doro thy Gish Hearst Selig No 81 and other comic and dramatic releases were shown Neal of the Navy will be offered later in the week.
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Scollay Square
Olympia Theatre
Kelley
Berg
Patrice
Company
Pete Griffin
Jones
Cutie
Sam J. Curtis
Dorothy Gish
Hearst Selig
Neal of
Navy
Final two weeks of Experience at Shubert Theatre
The Shubert Theatre opened the final two weeks of Experience with an overflowing audience. Every seat was sold and hundreds stood. Demand matched that for world series tickets as mail orders flood in from nearby towns seeking remaining seats.
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Shubert Theatre
The
Shubert
Birth of a Nation Runs Long in Boston at Maestic
The 28th week of D. W. Griffiths Birth of a Nation plays at the Maestic Theatre in Boston. The extraordinary attraction enters its eighth month next week, continuing a longer Boston run than previously known.
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D. W. Griffith
Boston
Maestic Theatre
Park Theatre Screens Marie Doro Thriller The White Pearl
Miss Marie Doro stars in The White Pearl a Paramount Pictures feature by Famous Players filmed adventure at Park Theatre She plays the daughter of a rich importer on a sea voyage to Japan where a stowaway fiancé and a raft rescue drive the plot A Girl of Yesterday with Mary Pickford and an air travel sequence with Glenn Martin also appear The Park programme includes Paramount Travel Series Charles Franks Orchestra and a South American panorama Beginning today world series games shown including Boston yesterday
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Marie Doro
the Park Theatre
Paramount
Mary Pickford
Miss Pickford
Glenn Martin
South America
Charles Frank
Park Theatre
Boston
The Blindness of Virtue continues at Castle Square Theatre
The Cosmo Hamilton drama remains for a second week drawing crowds similar to last week. Craig players Mary Young and William P. Carleton receive strong notices for Effie and the disreputable college student roles. Next week the production enters its third week at Castle Square Theatre.
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Cosmo Hamilton
Castle Square Theatre
Castle Square
Craig
Mary Young
Effie
William P. Carleton
Theodore Firebus
Betty Barnicoat
Harry Pemberton
Vida Croly Sidney
Cookie
Globe Theatre All Star Vaudeville Show Highlights
An all star bill at the Globe Theatre featured Rockwell and Wood in nutty vaudeville, a playlet The Fixer by John T. Howe ex chief of the New York fire department, a nine member Russian troupe, Bud and Nellie Heim Dognon and Clifton, and the Berlin Serenaders with a film song We will have a Jubilee in Our Old Kentucky Home. Charlie Chaplin in Shanghied and The Diamond From the Sky plus Pathe Weekly and Wilful Peggy. Thursday brings Andy Lewis and company with The Duke.
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Globe Theatre
Rockwell
Wood
John T. Howe
New York
Kentucky
Charlie Chaplin
Pathe Weekly
Peggy
Andy Lewis and Company
Grand Opera House Offers Bosworth Show And Goodwin Screenings
Last night and tonight at the Grand Opera House the feature is tobart Bosworth in Father land. On Wednesday and Thursday Nat Goodwin appears in Business Is Business. A variety of other acts, including a musical number, are listed for the program.
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Grand Opera House
Tobart Bosworth
Nat. Goodwin
Wilsons Word for Carranza Approved by U S
President Wilson formally approves the Pan American conference plan to recognize the Carranza government in Mexico. Diplomats of several South American nations were instructed to follow, with other republics likely to act soon and European powers expected to align. Britain France Germany and Italy have shown similar intent, maintaining agents to Carranza.
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Washington
Wilson
Carransa
Mexico
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Carranza
Autoist Cleared of Hilling Boy in Portland Fatal
Judge Sullivan in central court yesterday discharged Thomas G. Stephens of Melrose Street after declining to grant a manslaughter warrant. The auto killed 15 year old Julius Padosky of Chambers Street on Portland Street last Saturday night. The judge ruled the driver was not to blame.
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Sullivan
Central Court
Thomas G. Stephens
Melrose Street
Julius Padosky
Chambers Street
Portland Street
Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League backs Shaw for Governor
The Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League endorses Prohibition candidate William Shaw for governor urging voters to back him on November 2. The group notes Shaw fights on the prohibition issue, while McCall avoids a position on national prohibition and emphasizes nonpartisan effort to end the liquor trade.
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William Shaw
Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League
Shaw
League
Samuel W. McCall
Congress
Still Non-Partisan The League Makes It Clear
The league emphasizes a nonpartisan stance in its policy statements and public communications. It pledges to present information neutrally, avoiding partisan labels while advocating for fair play and transparent processes.
Real Flesh Build For Thin People Ad Sargol Weight Gain Plan
Advertises Sargol as a weight gain aid for thin individuals. Recommends taking one tablet with each meal for two weeks, tracking progress with scales. Claims typical gains of five to eight pounds and asserts the product aids fat production without creating fat itself. Sold by leading druggists with a money back guarantee if weight does not increase.
League endorses Shaw for Governor amid Prohibition ties
The league backs Mr. Shaw for Governor citing the major issue facing the state and nation. It states the endorsement does not create an alliance with the Prohibition party nor endorse any Prohibition candidates below the head of the ticket.
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Shaw
Prohibition Party
Mr. Shaw
Arthur J. Davis
Massachusetts
League
Radcliffe appoints unofficial college police committee
The Radcliffe college announces its unofficial police force committee led by Miss Ruth Whitmore of Cambridge. Assistants include Eleanor K. Sweet of Cambridge class of 1916, Katherine K. Barr of Roxbury class of 1916, Doris I. Cummings class of 1917 of Reading, Mary W. Ives class of 1917 of New York, Margaret J. Carver of Cambridge class of 1918, and Frances I. Holmes of Lynn.
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Radcliffe Order
Ruth Whitmore
Cambridge
Eleanor K. Sweet
Katherine KK. Barr
Roxbury
Doris I. Cummings
Reading
Mary W. Ives
New York
Margaret J. Carver
Frances I. Holmes
Lynn
Red Rose Protest Ahead for Anti Suffrage Parade
Mrs Geoffrey G Whitney of Milton declares she will wear a red rose Saturday to show opposition to women in politics. Miss Mary Thaw sister of Harry Thaw joins the anti suffrage effort, with Massachusetts society women funding and aiding the campaign as a red rose demonstration precedes the suffrage parade.
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Massachusetts
Geoffrey G. Whitney
Milton
Mary Thaw
Harry Thaw
Greater
Boston
Whitney
Antis
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