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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1912
Page
15
Blanche King markets a final season after prior success at Tremont The Deep Purple heads to St James The Man of the Hour plays Castle Square and other bills in a bustling theater lineup with prominent acts and venues.
Blanche King presented The Wall Street Girl at Tremont Theatre last evening a musical farce headlined by Miss Ring and William P. Carleton. The plot centers on a flirtatious young socialite who purchases a gold mine and disguises herself as a cowboy to test a suitor’s claims, with lively tunes and strong performances driving two weeks of lively engagement.
The Quaker Girl opened its run at the Colonial Theatre drawing nightly full houses as Boston audiences praise its brisk plot, music, and performance. The English musical comedy progresses toward a potential record-breaking run with strong crowds and favorable notices.
Rose Stahl appeared on the Park Theatre stage to a large audience as Maggie Pepper entered its eighth week at the house. The crowd showed evident satisfaction as the performance continued.
Gertrude Hoffmann and her merry associates played to a large audience at the Shubert Theatre in Boston. The revue titled Broadway to Paris drew continuous laughter from curtain rise to curtain fall in the third week of its run.
John Craig staged George Broadhurst's The Man of the Hour at Castle Square to strong audience appeal. Mary Young stars with Dallas Wainwright and Wilson Melrose in a cityscape drama of political life and social change. Donald Meek and others provide spirited support. Next week Butterfly Baronet by Robert Keith Snow, with Craig in a lead role.
Waldron's Casino offers The Midnight Maidens with a cast of nationally known burlesque stars including Elmer Tenley Bob Van Osten Virginia Royden Clare Burge and others. The program features The Honeymoon a musical comedy as the opener and Cupid as the finale burlesque.
The performance features Mrs Langtry in a bright comic sketch about woman’s suffrage titled Helping the Cause with satire on militant tactics. The bill also includes Taylor Granville’s The Hold Up with a 150-ton locomotive sequence, Pat Rooney and Marion Bent At the News Stand, and additional acts such as Three Mori brothers, Lydell and Butterworth, and Pathe News.
Last evening the Majestic Theatre opened its third week with a full auditorium for the charming tale Little Boy Blue. Henry W. Savage's attraction received high praise for its excellent cast and entrancing music.
St James Theatre Manager Gulesian presents The Deep Purple a melodrama of the underworld with Ethel Grey Terry Beth Franklyn Charles Abbe heads the cast. Terry plays the clergyman’s daughter with taste while Abbe portrays the sanctimonious villain Pop Clark. The production runs one week before Clyde Fitch’s The Blue Mouse arrives.
Bowdoin Square Theatre’s ongoing popularity contest runs through November 2 with prizes for top entrants. The Violet Mascotte Beauty Brigade offers a new musical festival this week featuring many new contestants led by favorites such as Dolly Clifford and Alice Dudley among others. The Meyers Sachs Beecher company presents a laughable farce with Don the educated pony performing arithmetic and time. W E Browning’s dialect acts and Anita the gypsy violinist entertain, along with Frank Galot and Gertrude Fay. The Country Store is highlighted for the Thursday amateurs and Friday show.
Boston audiences praise George Arliss in Disraeli at the Plymouth. L N Parker’s production, led by Margaret Dale and Violet Heming, presents a compelling history lesson and strong performances for a thoroughly competent company.
The National Theatre drew four World Series champions led by Buck O'Brien and Pinch Henriksen for a charity event. The quartet, comfortable on stage, headlined a varied bill with Bert Levy, Grant and Hoag, the Jolly Wild Company, the Four Provosts, Hickman brothers in The Detective Detected, plus Carson and Brown and the Balliots.
The Gaiety hosts Dave Marion and his Dreamland Burlesquers with a lively program of more than 25 songs by Marion. Highlights include Pousse Cafe Medley Late and Early Boys Gay Paree and My Birthday set to witty words and spirited burlesque.
Yesterday the Howard Atheneum presented a laugh feast with burlesque and musical numbers. Harry Cooper as Happy Heine amused with a German accent while May Edwin Emily Nice showcased vocal range and talent.
Delegates from major textile centers in the United States and Canada attend the 12th annual convention of the AFL United Textile Workers Union at 724 Washington Street. Mayor Fitzgerald welcomes 86 delegates as President James T. Moriarty of the Boston CLU and Secretary Austin P. Kaveney extend greetings.
The mayor praised International President John Golden of Fall River who presided before launching a denunciation of over capitalized industries as the country’s great curse. He cited a $169,000,000 goodwill claim and said many textile stocks lack real value. Golden will address Lawrence and Lowell in a special report.
Hollis Street Theatre opened the second week of Coming Home to Roost with a large audience. The play is unusual and real in its life phase, well acted by William Courtleigh and Grace Elliston as leading foils, offering strong appeal and enjoyment.
The Eight English Roses sing and dance with promise while Johnny Geiger delivers a strong violin hit. Sheridan and Sloane present a bright musical comedy bit. Marie and Scome entertain with comedy juggling. Teede and LadZelle perform Del monico's Upside Down in a 15 minute set. Other features including the Rays and the Pathe weekly pictures receive good notices.
Boston Theatre enters another week with the Robin Hood production under Arthur. A strong coterie of singers and a grand opera scale chorus bring familiar airs to life, renewing popular favor for the acclaimed old piece.
Stars including Gladys Sears and J Theo Murphy headline a week of burlesque at the Grand Opera House. The program features Mlle Fifi and dancing by Lillie Crawford and Nellie Montrose, with Wednesday’s Country Store, a Thursday wrestling bout Cyclone Burns vs Joe Johnson, and Friday amateur showcases.
Announcement states the benefit for the Henry B. Harris Rest Home for Stage Children will move from Boston Theatre to Colonial Theatre in this city on Tuesday afternoon October 29. Seat sales begin at Colonial box office next Thursday morning at 9 o'clock.
A compilation of death notices and funeral details from Boston area cities. Entries name the deceased, age, residence, and funeral arrangements with dates and times, including church and mass information. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. private services noted where applicable.
Norfolk accident brief: passengers crew and life savers saved from the Berkshire by the revenue cutter Seminole at Lookout Cove North Carolina after days of fire on board the Merchants and Miners liner.
An explosion in the hold likely of turpentine barrels and ongoing cotton cargo fires forced Captain Hart to abandon plans to sail to Philadelphia with passengers. Twenty one travelers from Savannah will be landed and sent on by rail. Berkshire sits at Lookout Cove as fires, water streams, and a Norfolk wrecking tug are used to control the blaze.
Jacob W. Southworth born April 22, 1822 in Plymouth died at Jordan Hospital after several months illness. A longtime member of Colonel Lindwood Post 76 G A R he attended reunions and Minute Men Boston trips each April. Also in Standish Guards Veterans Association and honorary member of A M Harrison Council O U A M. Widely known as Uncle Jake.
A woman calling herself Amelia Leonard was arrested by Detectives Boyle and O'Hare outside the Hotel Vanderbilt on October 21. She is suspected of being the woman who escaped Worcester State Hospital earlier in the month.
Miss Mildred Kelly, chased by Chase Lee a former chauffeur, sought refuge in an apartment but was shot and fatally wounded. Lee then killed himself, ending the chase in New York on October 21.
Jintsu Naruso, president of Tokyo Women’s University, met Harvard’s President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot and President A. Lawrence Lowell yesterday to discuss academic ties.
In loving memory of Richard L. Knappe son of Emil and Barbara Knappe who died Oct 23 1911 A requiem will be celebrated at Holy Trinity Church Shawmut Avenue Wednesday morning Oct 23 at 8 o clock Relatives and friends invited Gone but not forgotten.
Charles Sumner Bird, Progressive candidate for Massachusetts governor, denounces press bias at a Faneuil Hall mass meeting for Hebrew citizens. He warns newspapers suppress news and praises Colonel Roosevelt as a national leader. B D Tierkel from Philadelphia voices support in Yiddish.
Frank M. Gowen, former South Boston lodging house keeper, was found unconscious from gas in his Worcester square room. He held torn divorce writs, despondent over reconciliation. He was taken to City Hospital with hope for recovery.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as the best laxative for any liver stomach or bowels distress. It claims fast results for constipation indigestion biliousness and headaches with a 10 cent box offering months of health and a clear head. It urges adults and children to use Cascarets and notes druggists carry the product.
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