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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1917
Page
10
Park Square Theatre enters its final week of Captain Kidd Jr a light comedy by Aida Johnson Young. The cast features Charles Dow Clark as the town sheriff and Mona Bruns as the bookseller's granddaughter. The next attraction will be The Grass Widow, a new musical comedy.
The Shubert Theatre hosted The Passing Show of 1917 last night in its final Boston week. De Wolf Hopper Irene Franklin Jefferson De Angelis Charles Sales lead a 125 member company. The next Winter Garden attraction will be The Show of Wonders featuring George Munroe and Marilyn Miller.
The Wilbur Theatre last evening marked the fourth week of Love o' Mike a novel musical comedy where all performers are principals. The show leans toward intimate style more than typical entertainments and sets a brisk pace for its intimate mood earning strong audience appeal.
One of the season’s largest theatre parties gathered school principals from Greater Boston at Tremont Theatre to applaud Winchell Smith and John L. Golden for Turn to the Right a play praised for humor dramatic punch and moral tone Clergymen’s day is set for tomorrow at the venue.
Mary Pickford stars as a child princess in The Little Princess at the Modern Theatre. Vivian Martin appears in The Trouble Buster as part of this week’s program.
B F Keith's Theatre showcased Eve lyn Nesbit with a rose field tale titled A Roseland Fantasy and Bobbie O'Neill, plus George Whiting with Sadie Burt, Duggan and Raymond, Eddie and Lou Miller, Lew Madden, Walter Weems, Seabury and Shaw, DeWitt Burns and Torrance, Brennan and Vaughn, and a Hearst-Pathe pictorial in a lively vaudeville program yesterday.
The musical Oh Boy! enters its last two weeks at the Plymouth Theatre with a closing performance set for Saturday night November 10. The Boston company features Helen Shipman Joseph Allen Irene Haisman Charles Compton Ethel Forde and Harold Crane among others returning to the local stage.
The Castle Square Theatre reopened to the public after months of darkness offering a news pictorial comedy a war news picture and The Manx Man. A concert featured violinist Margaret Whitaker the Harvard Quartet and baritone Herbert W. Smith in a varied program.
The play enters its 21st week at the Copley Theatre with audience interest in Viola Mach as Miriam Lee and Leon Gordon returning as Christopher Brent after an accident. The production will run at the Copley until further notice.
Scollay Square Olympia presented The Honor System a convict life in Sing Sing behind prison walls in a revival of reform critique. Seven vaudeville acts entertained, with Magda Dahl and Cola Santos Band drawing crowd interest alongside Renee Family Betty Barnett and others.
John Drew returned to Hollis Street Theatre with Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Gay Lord Quex a comedy drama not seen here for some seasons. A large audience greeted the favored actor as he staged the production for the city’s theatergoers.
Mr Drew presents The Gay Lord Quex with a London society gent in the title role showing his distinctive stage aura. Margaret Illington as Sophy Fullgarney delivers a demanding mix of emotion and light comedy to strong effect. The cast includes Irby Marshall Violet Kemble Cooner Rexford Kendrick Louise Drew and others. two weeks of performances begin soon.
A new musical comedy headlined by the American Minstrel Maids featured song and dance in a bright scenic setting with brilliant costumes. Supporting numbers included Lulu's Friend, Tommy Hayden with Adele Oswald in The Woman of It, Lillian's dogs, and Frederick and Palmer, with News Pictorial shorts A Bedroom Blunder and The Price Mark starring Dorothy Dalton on screen.
The Gordon’s Olympia bill yesterday featured Billie Burke in Arms and the Girl a touching Belgian devastation tale, plus a comedy, Pathe Weekly, and the Six International Tourists leading a vaudeville lineup. Also on the program were the Havelocks Philbrick and Devoe William Lytell and company Gordon and Spencer and the Fujiyama Four in a Japanese novelty act.
The Step Lively Girls perform a carefully staged burlesque at Waldron's Casino with a new book The Corset Shop. The program blends musical features and vaudeville and retains last season's stars Rich McAllister Ethel Vernon Harry Shannon and Dotson with new talent Raymond Paine Rhea Hess and Nettie Hyde providing fresh material.
The Park Theatre presents Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne in The Adopted Son a tale of mountain life and eastern Tennessee feud resolved peacefully. Douglas Fairbanks stars in His Picture in the Papers with clean comedy and a Mack Sennett Keystone highlight. Also shown are Sid ney Drew duo Pathe Hearst weekly soloists violin by Park Symphony Orchestra under William A Krauth.
Theda Bara stars as Camille at the Boston Theatre this week drawing a large, enthusiastic crowd. Her portrayal offers a fresh take on the heroine, with vaudeville acts and musical offerings rounding out the bill.
Billie Burke stars in Arms and the Girl at Exeter Street Theatre along with Little Mary McAllister in Young Mother Hubbard Sessue Hayakawa appears in The Call of the East and Gladys Hulette in a yet unseen feature at the same venue readers may see these four attractions this week
At the Howard Atheneum yesterday I. W. Gernardy's Mischief Makers showcased burlesque talent led by Joe Wilton Joe Freed and Charley Van Osten. Stella Morrissey Mabel Clark Auralia Clark Johnny Crosby and others drew praise with a patriotic The Battleship Review and varied original costumes. Next Monday November 5 The Monte Carlo Girls will headline the burlesque show.
Evelyn Nesbit promotes Redemption with her son Russell Thaw at Bowdoin Square Theatre. William S Hart screens Hell's Hinges while Ali Rajah and company perform telepathy. Schepp's Circus showcases ponies and animals. Charles F. Atkinson presents The Man Without a Country to enthusiastic crowds. Local bill also features Fred Ferdinand Louis Fritz William McKeeler.
The Globe Theatre presented a resident stock company staging A Pair of Silk Stockings last evening. The plot follows a mysterious disappearance of a young lady’s silk stockings triggering a house full of speculation as the cast delivers strong performances. The week continues with The Argyle Case announced for November.
Last evening at the Majestic Theatre Alice Nielsen, after years in grand opera, presented musical comedy to acclaim. She brings training and experience from opera, stands among the top performers in lighter stage works, and still carries vivacity and flexible, pure tone. Her numbers, higher in grade than typical for the genre, suited her well and she sang with refreshing certainty and charm.
The comedy Kitty Dar Lin mirrors Sweet Kitty Bellairs with Miss Nielsen as a lively widow. Rudolf Friml conducts a Celtic flavoured score praised as reaching new heights, opening after a brief prelude without an overture.
A metropolitan stage premiere featured Miss Nielsen in fine voice with Edwin Stevens Glen Hall and Jackson Hines in key roles. The company showcased melodious arias Kitty Darlin and When She Gives Him a Shamrock Bloom with staged dancing and period costumes. A Saturday matinee is planned as management eyes a New York transfer after the week.
Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey will deliver his second lecture at Symphony Hall tomorrow evening, covering topics not discussed during his Friday talk. The famous author of Over the Top is expected to draw a large audience.
Franklin Park Theatre presents Douglas Fairbanks in a strong week of comedy. Vaudeville features Trene La Tour and her trick dog Rhoda and Crampton in Between the Acts Johnny Dore and Work and Over in the lineup.
The Beacon Theatre features photoplays this week. Mary Pickford stars in The Little Princess set in a London boarding school, while Vivian Martin leads The Trouble Buster in a contrasting tale of humor and romance.
The Gayety Theatre opened yesterday with Fred Irwin's Big Show as the main attraction. Featured acts include Samaroff and Sonia in Sunday Afternoon, a Russian peasant sketch, and the acrobatic duo King Wong and King with Wainright and Bertin. The program blends taking comedy music and specialties, delivering top vaudeville entertainment.
A fine bill of vaudeville was presented at Loew s St James Theatre yesterday. Hal Stephens topped the program in Famous Characters in Famous Scenes. Others included Sadie Sherman Murphy and Klein the McGinnis brothers The Dancing Cadets and The Great Saw tell. On the screen were shown the latest news pictorial the 17th episode of The Fatal Ring and The Moth featuring Norma Talmadge.
Yesterday at the Lancaster Theatre audiences saw The Love Doctor with Earle Williams as a brain specialist surgeon and a companion feature A Rich Man's Plaything starring Valeska Suratt, both presented as photoplays.
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