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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1917
Page
8
Colonial Theatre nears the closing week of Have a Heart with Flora Zabelle headlining and Billy B. Van delivering strong comedy. The next attraction, Ziegfelds Follies, features a notable cast and beautiful performers, with seat sales beginning this morning.
Laughter and praise greet each Tremont performance of Turn to the Right. The Boston public grows more devoted as the show blends melodrama and light comedy with strong acting, especially Ruth Chester's portrayal of the mother.
Emma Dunn stars in Old Lady 31 at Plymouth Theatre in Boston with broad audience appeal. The faithful wife role is praised as artful and the cast supports the varied human roles with capable performances.
Here Comes the Bride enters its third week at Hollis Street Theatre as Francine Larrimore leads a witty cast. Maud Eburne earns note for a standout character amid clever lines and situations boosting the show's popularity.
Boston Theatre presented Polly of the Circus with Mae Marsh starring. The show featured spectacular scenes including a tent fire and a thrilling horse race. Vaudeville followed with acts by Ruth troupe Duffin Redcay Texas Comedy Four Pielot Scho field La Marte brothers and a Pathe Hearst pictorial reel.
The show continues at the Wilbur Theatre into its seventh week with Harold Crane and Irene Haisman joining the cast. Producers Elliott and Comstock periodically add members, and Crane, now Jim Marvin, previously starred in The Blue Paradise at the same venue last season.
The Shubert Theatre closes for the week and will reopen Monday evening with Robert Mantell in a two week Shaksperian run. Mantell stars in King Lear in the title role, a performance noted for his strong portrayal.
The Man Who Stayed at Home nears its four month run at the Copley Theatre as patronage stays high. New company members have become popular with audiences.
Billie Burke William Desmond Sessue Hayakawa and Louise Glaum lead Exeter Street Theatre for the current week with top billed performances and popular roles.
The September Morning Glories Burlesque at the Howard Atheneum wowed audiences with pretty girls clever comedians and dazzling costumes and scenery. Stars Bert Bertrand Jules Jacobs and George Red Martin Norma Bell and a 20 member chorus led strong on stage. The management also offered a vaudeville bill including the Gasch sisters gymnasts King and Morgan in After the Ball and the Rastus Brown trio. The show runs continuously.
Bowdoin Square Theatre attracted many women yesterday as the seven reel feature presented moral truths on maternal guidance. The bill also showed The Fighting Trail first episode, Pearl White in The Fatal Ring, Dorothy Gish in Atta Boys Last Race, and vaudeville acts by Nat Aldine and brothers Yarotzky and others. Sam Cohens amatesrs Thursday and Bargain Night Friday offered extra features.
Dan Coleman headlines at Waldron's Casino with a hub atmosphere as he riffs on clean-cut comedy singing and eccentric dancing. The production includes Boston composer Thomas Allen and a chorus of Boston girls plus cast members Horatio McNally Frank Mallahan Alma Bauer Easter Higbee Babe Burnette Hazel Lorraine Anna Connors Elizabeth Tatt Frank O'Neill Phil Peters Joe Dunn and others. The niftiest chorus in burlesque features in many singing and dancing numbers.
The Franklin Park Theatre presents The Slacker with Emily Stevens as Marguerite Christy. A vaudeville bill features Zebra and Hoot Leonardi Hedges and Hedges and Martini and Maximilian. A complete change of bill is planned for the last half of the week.
The Modern Theatre presents Mary Pickford in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm billed as Little Mary with sparkling comedy and strong dramatic skill. George Beban also stars in Lost in Transit on the same program offering a varied night of cinema.
Gordon's Olympia showed The Mysterious Miss Terry with Gordon's Billie Burre as star and Alice Joyce in An Alabaster Box. The program also featured a brisk vaudeville bill with Norton and Earle Tyler and St. Clair Marie and Billy Hart Barnes and McGuire and the Aeroplane Girls.
The Hudson Super-Six is touted as the largest selling fine car in the world with over 40,000 in daily use. It is presented as the standard for durability and a widely discussed model in communities everywhere.
The Gayety Theatre packed last night for Maids of America. Al K Hall and Bobby Barry drew continuous laughter from start to finish. Florence Rother, Alfaretta Symonds, Lillian Doris, and a strong supporting cast, including Symonds and Weston, Hall and Barry, Shane, Bisland and Calvert, provided high class entertainment with repeated encores. Harvey Brooks, an exceptional juvenile, contributed materially to the show.
The St James Theatre top of the vaudeville bill was the College Quintet singing popular college glees. Mabel Paige presented The Lesson with her company. Cooper and Cox performed Magic Pills. Ward and Pryor. Jewett and Pendleton also appeared. The crowd saw The Fatal Ring episode ten on screen along with News Pictorial and The Haunted House featuring Winifred Allen. The entire bill changes Thursday.
Globe Theatre Stock Company staged The Misleading Lady a comedy by Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard last evening. The plot follows a frivolous society woman who flirts with a cosmopolite until he abducts her after her empty attentions reveal themselves. Robert Le Sueur and Mary Frey received praise for their roles with strong supporting performances from Fred C. House and the rest of the cast.
Park Theatre manager Soriero presents a strong program this week led by The Lifted Veil starring Ethel Barrymore. Douglas Fairbanks stars in Double Trouble in a new dual role. Also on the bill are Precious Life Metro Travelogue and Pathe weekly with Annhette Luvic singing as the finale sotto voce.
Townsend Wilber and company offered A Smart Aleck about a presumptuous suitor. The Celli Opera company sang In Old Madrid. The bill also featured Port and De Lacey the Dolce sisters and a Two Jumping Jacks act. News pictures and Babbling Tongues with Grace Valentine were shown. The slate changes Thursday.
At Fenway Theatre yesterday The Outcast starring Ann Murdock as a woman of the streets drew interest alongside a film from the new national cantonment at Ayer showing grounds buildings and cadets. Charlie Chaplin in The Pawn Shop also screened with a fine musical program featuring soprano Mildred Efford. The bill changes in the last half of the week.
A brace of feature photoplays were shown yesterday at the Lancaster Theatre. Transgression stars Earle Williams with Corinne Griffith and Mother Mary Maurice, sharing top billing with him. The companion picture is Wife Number Two featuring Valeska Suratt.
Mary Pickford stars in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm at the New Beacon Theatre this week on a bill with George Beban in Lost in Transit. The program promises a sequence of unusual incidents.
With propitious weather persisting, Revere Beach amusement enterprises will stay open to the public. Many attractions are housed to operate even in cool conditions.
Hiram Conibear longtime University of Washington rowing coach was killed in Seattle after a fall from a plum tree behind his home near the campus. The news notes his decade directing UW crews and the sudden fatal accident.
Billy LeClair must carefully time signals for the Coffey Levinsky bout as Jim Coffey, rising heavyweight from Dublin, eyes a potential upset. The 12 round main event, plus a return 10 round Owens Snyder, headline a large crowd expected at the Arena with Coffey’s countrymen fueling the rush.
An all fun vaudeville show at Scollay Square Olympia featured A Holiday in Dixieland as the headline act with five Southern belles. The program included Swart and Clifford and Fields and Holiday Sevilla and Pife Holden and Herron Leila Davis and company in as It Will Be. Shepps Circus and multiple photo plays such as The Guardian starring June Elvidge also appeared.
Scores of professionals tested the Westmoreland Golf Club course in Chicago for the Western Open 72 hole medal event. The best score reported was 73 or two under par on the 6452 yard layout by Ernest French of York Pennsylvania.
President Johnson of the American League said that if Chicago wins the pennant, World Series seating in American League parks will be reduced to affordable levels. Bleacher seats would be 50 cents, pavilion 1 dollar, grandstand 1.50, with box seats at five dollars, effectively doubling season prices.
New Orleans Sept 16 Pete Herman holder of the world bantamweight championship was granted draft exemption until Oct 15 by the district appeal board to defend his title. Herman sought exemption citing dependent parents.
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