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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1909
Page
4
A large afternoon audience and a packed night show at Scenic Temple highlighted a week of exceptional offerings. Performers Ira Kessner, Edward Dillon, Miss Rosalie Rose, and Ben Smith drew continuous laughter with illustrated songs and dramatic readings.
The Sunday Post reports L Starr & Co launching a bi weekly selling plan drawing large crowds. The firm will hold sales every two weeks to move stock. The policy favors small profits and quick sales with regular prices said to be well below market.
The Castle Square hosts the final shows of The Circus Girl this week with a crowded, laughing audience. The production blends spectacle humor and music and the stock company led by Mr Craig and Miss Young will be fully appreciated in farewell performances. Hamiet follows next Monday.
The humanoscope comedy It’s Only the Painter headlines Theatre Premier for the coming week. Other offerings include The Diver’s Remorse, Physical Culture Trends, Chums, The Major and the Judge and Haps and Mishaps. Esther Ray, Eddie Seaman, and the Joy brothers are among featured novelties.
The Globe Theatre reopens in Boston with an updated interior and the farce The Blue Mouse. Lewellyn, a railroad president, hires Paulette Divine the Blue Mouse, stirring personal entanglements. Mabel Barrison and Harry Connor deliver strong turns, supported by Zelda Sears. the play proves lively, harmless, and entertaining.
The Candy Shop at Tremont Theatre closes its Boston run in its final weeks. Charles Dillingham presents a lively musical comedy with William Rock Maude Fulton and Lalor delivering strong comic turns. Annie Yeamans Miss Morrison Lucy Weston and Louis Harrison shine in memorable scenes including a Coney Island pas seul.
The fifth week of A Gentleman From Mississippi at the Park Theatre drew a large crowd with warm receptions for Thomas A. Wise as the junior Senator and Douglas Fairbanks as reporter and secretary. The duo delivered humor and political intrigue, making the evening one of the best entertainments to please Bostonians in many days.
The Grand Opera House presents River Pirates, an A. H. Woods melodrama praised as one of the year’s best. It features convincing scenery and a strong cast, portraying life on New Yorks grim waterfront and the hero’s pursuit of the Water Pirates, with a romantic thread woven through shifting scenes.
For kidney and bladder complaints doctors long recommended gin in a specific mix. The formula blends six ounces gin with Buchu and Murax compound, taken in small doses after meals. Warns early symptoms require prompt care to avoid worse outcomes.
Edward Abeles headlines in Self Defence at Keith's Theatre as vaudeville bills include Annette Kellermann in her third week, Ray L Royce farm scene, dance acts, Lukens athletes, Jones and Deeley fanmakers, and cycling duo Palfrey and Burton among others. Abeles recreates a dramatic murder case in self defence to wide acclaim.
A crowded show features ventriloquist Arthur Prince whose voice throws astonish while the dummy seems to speak. Hardeen the handcuff king performs escapes from casks and shackles before two navy mannequins. Daphne Pollard debuts to strong Boston interest while Bespah and Miller, Rafayette’s dog act, Foster and Foster, Monsieur Herbert, and May Evans offer song, music, and novelty acts throughout the bill.
A 300 pound iron slag meteorite, possibly from Mars, drew a huge crowd at Austin & Stone's museum hall. Professor Hutchings explained its origin and journey from the heavens while local scientists praised its quality. The Cairo whirl wind dancers, a Wild West act, and multiple artists and films filled the program.
The Gaiety Theatre launches a weeklong engagement by the Rialto Rounders. The company features a large chorus of young women and introduces A Day at Niagara Falls with Sam Howe arriving in an airship. The bill includes songs and specialties, a Yidd'sh number, and the sketches A Broken Heart and A Day at the Races with Howe driving much of the comedy and the audience reaction strong.
James T. Powers closes two week engagement at the Majestic Theatre with Havana drawing large crowds and praise for his clean, fresh humor. A large cast keeps the pace as chorus girls add Casino style glamour. Monday evening Lew Fields brings The Rose of Algeria to Boston with Miss Lillian Herlein leading a strong Broadway cast.
William Collier closes his Hollis Street Theatre run this week and next after a popular engagement. The actor stars in a piece he co wrote with J Hartley Manners with Marjorie Wood as the sympathetic heroine. Grace George will follow with A Woman's Way.
The Boston Theatre hosts Three Twins with Clifton Crawford delivering sharp humor and Bessie McCoy shining as a dancing comedienne. Electric tower and scenic effects including swinging chairs and a coach and four drew acclaim as audience members filled the house.
The Howard Atheneum keynotes a successful Fay Foster company burlesque with a Baby Tangle theme. Sam Adams led a lively cast including Barry Thompson Billy Chase John Earle Robert Nadine and a host of others. Leading ladies Marie Bartlett Annnie Carter Josephine Emery Martha Haberman Florence Hughes Ciotto Mary Grieves and more performed, with acts by Johnson Marville Mike Lillian Saville Robert Sinclair and a Donkey and the Clown travesty. Novelty singers Bohee Hyers and Leslie Thurston plus Devine and Devine and the Christys provided additional humor and music.
Andy Gardner and a merry cast performed Patsy Bolivar in Patsy’s Busy Day at the Columbia Theatre. Ed Johnson delivered strong Irish impersonations while Ida Nicolai and Jeanette Buckley impressed in character roles. Valmore sisters Flo Bates and Alice Wilson also featured. Perelli and Charles Miller headline a wrestling bout tomorrow, with amateur antics to follow Friday.
Lothrop stock company presented The Lost Trail, a Western romance about Edith Faulkner who loves a broncho buster in Colorado. Bud Larabee, Lieutenant Corbin, and a stage coach chase drive the plot with strong turns from Charlotte Hunt and Frederick Van Rensselaer, along with a solid supporting cast.
Robert Mantell stars in The Corsican Brothers as the feature attraction on the Camera phone bill at Theatre Comique this week. Lackey and Devlin perform songs and dances. The program also includes motion pictures The Man and the Girl and The Broken Violin with Bonny Babies and The Ro.
A stage program featured The Poor Girl and The Delayed Weddings with several eye catching singing numbers. John Murphy and Gertrude Mann presented new illustrated songs, while Eva Young and Jack Beasley delivered duets that drew encore reactions.
Anna Held opened the Colonial Theatre for the second week of her engagement delighting a large audience. She journeyed from the Mediterranean to Paris in a three hour program highlighting new numbers like We Two in an Aeroplane and Ive Lost My Little Brown Bear. Charles A. Bigelow Lawrence DOrsay and John Reinhard appear in the dazzling production.
Bedini and Sonia the Russian peasants present A Sunday Afternoon's Revel featuring national dancing and acrobatic dogs. The Winters' Comedy Four and Annie Goldie also appear with Bedini and Sonia. Thursday adds Klever Kellers Billie and Maudie and Mrs Jules Levy and family in a musical melange. Songs are captivating and pictures well arranged.
This week's Foo air event in Mechanics' building offers a special day with a patriotic program by the Bostonia Woman's Orchestra under Belle Yeaton Renfrew. Fifty performers will wear varied gowns, and G A R members in uniform are welcomed. Also, Newton schoolchildren visit. exhibits and attractions are free.
Matt Henson, who accompanied Peary to the North Pole, voices views on the Cook expedition claims. He has appeared before audiences answering a flood of questions in a good-natured manner as inquiries continue.
Henson delivers pointed, decisive answers on who reached the pole, asserting the sole white claimant was not Dr. Cook. Tickets go on sale at the Boston Theatre for a lecture next Sunday night.
A Newark New York woman describes lasting grip aftereffects and recovery using Dr Williams Pink Pills. The ad credits the pills with rebuilding blood and nerves, aiding anemia rheumatism and nervous disorders. Sold by druggists or mail order from Schenectady New York.
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