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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1912
Page
8
Theater bill summarizes multiple shows including The Quaker Girl at Colonial Maggie Pepper and The Greyhound at Boston May Robson Hollis Fire Fortune Hunter at Castle Square. The list notes park and venue pairings with various acts in a busy schedule.
Review praises Rose Stahl as Maggie Pepper in the Park Theatre presentation. The production by Edward H. Crosby features strong turn by John S. Robertson and Mary Hampton with an admirably trained cast. The drama blends comedy and pathos with a hopeful ending in a simple tale of a department store clerk’s rise.
Robson’s play A Night Out draws large crowds after transfer from Park. The Hollis hosts the opening of the regular dramatic season with the same company and cast delivering comedy and pathos to a warm reception.
The Quaker Girl delighted Boston audiences at the Colonial Theatre with a polished import performance. Ina Otalze led in the title role with a sweet voice and graceful presence while Percival Knight, May Vokes, May Allison, and Maisie Gay supported through lively comedy and engaging dance numbers.
Tremont Theatre reports strong success for The Count of Luxembourg from opening. The Paris Bohemia visuals and romantic plot engage audiences, with music driving popularity. Frank Moulan and Fred Walton star in comedy roles while Ann Swinburne leads vocally. Moore, Cameron, Homfrey, Simpson, Smith, Reid and others contribute solid performances.
In the vaudeville portion Brocke the violinist harmonises with Charles Bradley singing and Arthur Brown the tramp specialist Dotson and Gordon as colored cutups participate. Thursday night new amateurs will offer the entertainment.
A gala day at the Howard Atheneum with James J. Corbett headlining a Stageland Burlesquers show. Blanche Baird drew cheers, while La Belle Helene impressed with grace. The cast included Mike McDonald, Charles Relyea, Ernest O’Fisher, Murray Lockwood, Stern Monroe Sisters, Iola Hixon, Louise Pearson, George Hall, and others in a lively program of burlesque, song, dance, and violin selections.
Langdon Mitchell's divorce satire The New York Idea plays at the St James Theatre Hunt ington and Massachusetts avenues with a full house. Notable cast includes Katherine Grey Beth Franklyn Ethel Grey Terry Kate Ryan Robert Haines and others as the company maintains polish and pace. Next up is Thais.
Max Spiegel's Winning Widow at the Casino features a musical comedy about two rich Hebrews seeking to wed the winning widow while a French count complicates matters. Key roles include Ed Kerr as the son, Daisy Davenport as the daughter, Miss Alta Phipps as the widow, and Lew Christy as the baron with Mae Rose as the maid.
The new show at the National features Marion Murray in Bozeman Bulger's A Big Biloft and acts Sully and Husgy The Sportsman and the Valet plus Edith Frost in her Boston debut Miss Frost is a Roxbury girl and 14 feet 11 inches tall with a 90 pound frame and a strong soprano voice Frost performs with Frost and Warren in a comic singing offering The Four Regals Gougets Lew Fitzgibbon Holmes and Wells also appear on the vibrant program.
The Globe Theatre launched its winter vaudeville with a strong lineup led by the Six Kellerman Magirls and their cycling act. The Mozarts perform a scenic playlet with snowshoe dancing, Edens brothers sing brightly, Lockett and Shers entertain with eccentric dancing, and the Three Society Girls respond to encores. Chester Kingston performs contortion. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is shown. Amateurs join tonight. The Globe Country Store runs Wednesday and Friday after evening shows.
At the Grand Opera House the Moulin Rouge burlesquers entertain with lively jollity. Corinne De Forest shines as Rosalie. Joe Fields leads the comedy, Patsy Barrett assists. Lee sisters star, Lovey Green sings. George Tuohy referees Perelli vs Jim Sullivan Thursday. Friday features an amateur appearance.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre offers a lively program under Violet Mascotte with dazzling costumes and a chorus of pretty girls. Harry La Marr stars in a new farce The Days of 6 as a glamorous revue features pictur esque drills and musical ties that spark audience enthusiasm. Performers include Anna Belmont Maymont Alice Dudley McLain sisters Florida De Liste Vera Hamilton Petta Ferguson Mae Osborne Zola sisters Blanche De Corret Dolly Clifford Rose.
The Shubert Theatre continues its season with Over Night as the main attraction. Audiences enjoyed the revival during the second week with strong attendance and lingering appeal from last year’s opening.
The theatre welcomed a holiday crowd as patrons filled the stalls at capacity. Mr. Brady presented a cast and production that meet the high standard set last season, signaling a strong start to the engagement.
The Majestic Theatre opens a third week of the Boston engagement with In Boston Laughing. Holiday crowds packed matinee and evening shows as many patrons were turned away. The farce follows a Bohemian New York artist scene chasing a blue blouse containing a lottery ticket.
William Hodge opened a four week engagement at Plymouth Theatre in The Man From Home drawing two large enthusiastic Boston audiences. He returns to his sympathetic Indiana lawyer role as he thwart s a money seeking foreigner's attempt on his ward. The cast features Harold Russell Charles Wellesley Edlin P Gayer Henry Harman and Ida Vernon among others.
The Olympia week features Ris Gordons Olympia A with new acts for Boston. Howard Truesdale and his company deliver a laughing hit in A Corner in Hair noted for clever stagecraft. Basque quartet operatic selections Wilton brothers on bars Juliet Wood Saona and company impersonations Sadie Mander Stone comedy skit Rollers skating novelty and Pathe weekly photoplays headline the program.
The Orpheum Theatre showcases the Berlo sisters Madeline and Dora with Mme. Berlo performing a graceful daring act. Also on the bill are the Five Merry Youngsters Bruce Duffett and company in Over the Transom the Stantons Who Stole the Shoes three Lorettas Belle Dixon Charles Tracey and others including the Menards Lantry brothers and more.
Klein brothers head the Gay Masqueraders at the Gaiety Theatre featuring Smiths Widows as the comic book. Ida Emerson stars with music by Ted Snyders and Irving Berlin. Ray Goetz wrote the lyrics and Ned Waybourn directs the production. Chorus members are noted for singing and dancing.
The Greyhound at Boston Theatre depicts life at sea across five scenes aboard the Mauretania with the Barbary coast San Francisco land segment. Eliza Proctor Otis stars as Kitty Doyle while Henry Kolker leads as Louis Fellman with a mix of crooks and mariners.
Castle Square Theatre continues its season with The Fortune Hunter featuring Nathaniel Duncan. The play blends plausible intrigue and light adventure as Duncan pursues wealth and a wife, bringing entertaining antics to the stage.
A local stage new production impressed two capacity crowds with strong turns by Mary Young as the daughter of Bam Graham and Craig delivering a manly supporting presence. Donald Meek and Leslie Palmer stood out as Bam Graham and Harbey Kellogg with solid ensemble work from Walter Walker Laurette Browne and Madeline Moore.
The Scenic Temple drew a full crowd on Labor Day with a varied and highly entertaining bill. Claire and West performed novelty singing and dancing with Romane Ragtime violinists among others, while a competent company of players closed with a laughter provoking after-piece.
Warren West, famed trainer of Daniels and other champions, is engaged at Ocean Pier Baths Revere as swimming instructor and lifeguard. West, once a Coney Island and Palm Beach lifeguard, is hailed as the country’s most successful swimming trainer and promises six lessons to make a learner comfortable in salt water.
A professional Durbar matinee in kinemacolor will be shown at Tremont Temple Thursday at 2 15 PM to meet demand from many players. The colored motion photography exhibition is breaking records at Tremont Temple.
The Boston audience enjoyed Olga Petrova in a Russian per mothered role with graceful stage presence. Lamberti the Master Musician drew applause for his sopar and musical numbers. A light comedy Why Sciatica Stayed at Home featured Frank Sheridan's Players and received praise for its amusing plot and strong cast including Newbold Gribben Cornell Gillette Marie and Billy Hart plus the Reid sisters whirlwind dancers from London.
Sheriff John Quinn departs today for New Trampshire to recuperate from a bad cold. The family physician urged a few days of rest and quiet, with no serious illness expected.
Dr. William S. Bruce the noted Scotch explorer and a companion were rescued by a steamer at Advent Bay after a long perilous Spitzbergen voyage. News of the rescue was received today.
An old ad copy touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative to cleanse a torpid liver and waste clogged bowels. It claims overnight results with a teaspoonful, warns against imitations, and emphasizes that the genuine product contains figs senna and aromatics from the California Fig Syrup Company.
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