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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1920
Page
18
William Tilden II captured the national all-comers singles championship at West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills after a five-set match against William M Johnston. The final scores were 6 1, 1 6, 7 5, 5 7, 6 3.
The pair staged a competitive match with Tilden leading late in the fourth set, only to see Johnston rally and win the set. Tilden benefited from breaks and a net post stroke in key moments while Johnston used his forehands to keep Tilden off stride, with the match decided in the final fifth set.
George Panzer of 44 Harding Street East Cambridge suffered a scalp wound and bruises when he was struck by a motorcycle as he stepped from his car on the Revere Parkway. Ernest Brown of the Chelsea Y M C A sustained two fractures of the right leg when thrown from his motorcycle by the impact. Both men are at Frost Hospital Chelsea.
This morning polls open for the primary election in Bunker Hill Post area. A 3 PM block party and Mardi Gras festival parade starts at Chestnut and Adams streets in Charles Town. At 8 PM William W. Cox of the Socialist Labor party speaks at a mass meeting on the Parkman bandstand in Boston Common.
Fay Bainter headlined East Is West at the Shubert Theatre in Boston to strong ovations. The Sam Shipman and John B Hymer comedy blends pathos with romance as Ming Toy, bought from a Chinese merchant, is courted by Billy Benson and faces Tong troubles before a choice between love and duty.
Review lauds Fay painter as a rare comedian and calls her portrayal of a little Chinese girl mastering western culture a theatre treasure. Supporting cast includes James Arthur Young as Lo Sang Kee, Fred Howard as Billy Benson, Robert Ober as James Potter, with Mrs. George A Hibard impressing in her role. Scenic design features a Yangtse Love-Boat prologue by Livingston Platt and evocative Chinatown and Benson homes in later acts.
Billy Queal former American long distance champion won the 3 mile professional event at the Order of Scottish Clans games in Caledonian Grove. He outpaced five local runners with strong early speed. Anthony Ihgeb took second and Joe Silva finished third.
The Colonial Theatre opened a dramatic year with Hitchy-Koo 1920 featuring Raymond Hitchcock Julia Sanderson and G P Huntley. A large select audience attended the unusual entertainment promising three stars and a standout show.
Attendees praised Mr. Hitchcock's presentation as his most gorgeous yet elaborate event. The hour-long spectacle combined sketches, dancing, and musical effects with lavish costumes and stage focus, though the comedian also drew mixed remarks about his distinctive persona.
The play Caroline by W. Somerset Maugham opened at the Copley Theatre in Boston with Elma Royton in the title role. The plot follows Caroline Ashley after a decade apart from her husband, a widow seeking love, and a man who has waited for her freedom. The production featured strong comic performances and lively humor throughout.
At Codman Square Theatre four vaudeville acts accompanied Roy Stewart in The Lone Hand. A new comedy and a world events pictorial plus photoplay supplement were featured, with an organ recital. Through the week Alice Joyce stars in The Duchess along with new vaudeville acts.
At the Lancaster Theatre yesterday Charles Ray led in Homer Comes Home. Alma Reubens starred in The World and His Wife. Thursday shows swap to The Fourteenth Man with Robert Warwick and A Sister to Salome with Gladys Brockwell.
Sept 6 The Boston Back Bay Post American Legion fell to Newburyport A A by 8 to 1. Mason hurled for Newburyport with a standout performance while Back Bay's batters managed sparse offense.
A historical notice lists when savings and interest deposits draw interest at various Massachusetts banks and trust companies. Institutions include Andover Savings Bank Andover Boston Five Cents Savings Bank Columbus Savings Bank Boston Melrose Savings Bank Melrose and others with specific Sept Oct dates for interest accrual. Also covers deposits in savings or interest departments of trust companies such as Charlestown Trust Co Commonwealth Trust Co Seamen Trust Co Fidelity Trust Co Boston United States Trust Co Melrose Trust Co Somerville Trust Co and national banks Boston Market Net Bank Watern Beytsten National Bank with October dates.
Fox Film Corporation presents a three story cinemelodrama at the Boston Opera House for four weeks. The first tale follows a millionaire and a wife who believes her husband is dead. The second coaster adapts a badger game with a vamp and a Ziegfeld scene. The third depicts a harsh East Side tragedy and a paralyzed father role. Notables Estelle Taylor Harry Sothern William Locke Earle Metcalf star across episodes.
Annette Kellerman stars in What Women Love a modern aquatic tale at Gordon's Old South Theatre. Wheeler Oakman leads a strong cast with Walter Long Carl Ullman Ralph Lewis and Bull Montana supporting in a maritime adventure with diving feats and underwater action.
The Bathing Beauties company staged a burlesque at the Howard Athenaeum with Jack Hunt as principal comedian. A lengthy lineup followed, including Louise Mersereau Helen Lloyd and Marie Hunt among others. The program also showcased Babe Ruth in Over the Fence The Black Bride and Groom and Manhattan Knight featured George Walsh. Next week the Beauty Trust will be shown.
Central Square theatre presented Mutiny of the Elsinore last evening with thrilling suspense. Babe Ruth was shown illustrating home run prowess. Five vaudeville acts entertained. Thursday features Constance Binney in 39 East.
Bowdoin Square Theatre opened a Labor Day program led by Robert W. Chambers The Fighting Chance with Anna Q Nilsson Dorothy Davenport and Conrad Nagel. Also shown Babe Ruth in Over the Fence The Fourteenth Man with Robert Warwick and others and The Vanishing Dagger. Vaudeville featured Harry Brooks and other acts with Friday night bargain cards and Sunshine Bathing Girls planned next week.
Tremont Temple just opened a two week run of Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn, with Joe Kerrigan in The Miser's Gift and two scenic reels. Brian Magowan and Frances Alexander portray Reilly and the Colleen Bawn with notable horsemanship and romance amid Irish love legend.
Revere Beach drew holiday crowds from far and near for a full day of amusement at venues like the Nautical Gardens pit whirlpool Derby racer and merry go rounds. A grand fireworks show lit the sky after dark, with concessionaires planning nightly displays throughout the week.
A strong vaudeville lineup at Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia features Hazel Green with six performers, Lillian Herlein with Earle Thorstensen, the musical farce Oh Mike with Roy Gordon Laura Vail and three Blighty girls, Sapson Douglas and the three Blighty girls, plus the screen feature The Misfit Wife starring Alice Lake. The Olympian Weekly and a new comedy were also shown.
Maurice Tourneur presents The White Circle adapted from The Pavilion on the Links to Gordon's Strand Upham's Corner Theatre. Bryant Washburn appears in What Happened to Jones. An entire change is planned Thursday including Zane Grey's Riders of Dawn.
Yesterday at Loew's Columbia Theatre audiences packed five act vaudeville with singing dancing and comedy. Top photoplays featured Ethel Clayton in a Lady in Love and Marie Dressler in Tillie Wakes Up. Later Wallace Reid in A Dancing Fool and Alice Brady in Hungry Heart join new vaudeville acts.
Alice Joyce opened the regular season at the Boston Theatre with The Prey drawing large holiday crowds. The vaudeville bill included Chung Hwa Four, Barry and Whittledge, Fred Elliot, Curtis and Fitzgerald in Odd Bits of Nature, and Barto and Clark in Columbia and Victory. Kinograms and Topics of the Day were shown.
The Exeter Street Theatre leads the week with Geraldine Farrar in The Woman and the Puppet and J Warren Kerrigan in The Green Flame. Later in the week the program shifts to The Mutiny of the Elsinore and Mildred Harris Chaplin in Polly of the Storm Country.
Chelsea celebrates Labor Day with the Chelsea Olympia Theatre reopening. Anita Stewart stars in two photoplays including The Yellow Typhoon as a Chinese gambling den proprietor and an American secret service agent while Babe Ruth headlines the other film. Patrons praised new women’s rest rooms and men’s lounges along with the lobby and performance quality.
The Majestic Theatre offers a short run of The Little Whopper with about a dozen songs by Harbach Friml and Dudley. Vocals by Vivienne Segal Helen Gunther Harry C Browne and George Rosely shine as the chorus performs with charm.
The musical comedy Trene delighted two full houses at the Wilbur Theatre as it completes its first month in the city. The company is led by star performers Helen Shipman Flo Irwin Jeannette MacDonald Dorothy LaMar John B Litel Henry Coots C Bailey Hick and Jere Delaney.
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