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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1921
Page
11
Poem fragment from Star Points by Houghton Mifflin quotes a road leading to unknown places. It contrasts a structured path with a mysterious journey toward God, describing landscapes, birds, bees, and nature. The speaker longs for a road that could lead anywhere and to divinity.
A 1921 Vivian Vane comedy fragment follows Jack and Jill as they swap roles in a playful suburban evening. Jill discusses a charming newlywed pair while Jack cleans the house to prove his love. The couple share laughs and a gentle reversal of traditional duties ending with mutual affection.
A letter column voices mixed views on whether a husband may read his wife's mail. Readers argue for mutual trust and equal privacy, with Vera defending open sharing while preferring consent before opening mail, and others urging compromise and frank discussion for a truly happy marriage.
The Rev. W. F. Preston assumed duties as pastor of Arington Heights Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday, delivering the morning sermon. He previously served at Holyoke Highlands M E Church and succeeds Rev. Edson R. Leach.
A collection of New England recipes with instructions for orange cake ham timbales cream sandwiches and cookies. Includes ingredient lists measures and basic baking directions credited to Mrs F H Bacholder Mrs J Sullivan and Mrs J in Dunham.
A brief note suggests peeling cheese with a vegetable or apple peeler to yield thin flakes that crumble easily. For citrus, boil five minutes to loosen rind and inner skin. Signed MRB J L Dunham Taunton.
Readers ask who declared Poland independent and when. A 1916 manifesto by German and Austrian Emperors is cited. A query explains ro coco architecture and pronounces it ro-Ko-ko. A pastor asks if citizen ness exists to distinguish women voters. note that citizen includes women under the Constitution.
The word kismet means fate or destiny. The passage likens it to phrases such as It is fate and fate has so ordained it. It also contrasts with pessimism expressed as What's the use.
The present king’s family name is Windsor. If he were a private citizen he would be styled Mr George Windsor.
Funeral services are set for Frank E. Butler a longtime professional baseball player who died Saturday at his South Boston home. A solemn high mass of requiem will be conducted at St Augustine Church and burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Butler a veteran of the Northwestern League Union Association and New England League is survived by three daughters one son William F a Boston school committee member six sisters and two brothers.
Lithuanian tenor and composer Mikas Petrauskas gave a concert in Steinert Hall with Carl Webster cellist Veronika Putsvinskas soprano Pauile Sarkaite soprano Jacob Varaitis baritone Anthony Badulas bass and Ernest Harrison as accompanist. The program featured instrumental pieces by Webster and songs by Petrauskas and composers including Montague Moniuszko Simkus Dargomirsky Verdi and Schumann. Petrauskas impressed as both singer and composer and his music reflects Lithuanian folk influences.
The People's Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emil Mollenhauer presented yesterday at Convention Hall a program including the Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor, Liszt E flat concerto with Miss Dai Buell as piano soloist, three Berlioz pieces, and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The audience was large and enthusiastic. The final concert of the season will be next Sunday afternoon.
Rex Ingram, Metro director, is a Dublin born stage to screen figure educated at St Columba’s Trinity College and Yale. He trained under sculptor Lee Oscar Lawrie, shifted to film, directed and wrote, with three Metro features Shore Acres Hearts Are Trumps The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He served as a lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps and is described as six feet tall with black hair and gray blue eyes.
Thomas H Ince announces Hail the Woman as his next production with a star lineup including Florence Vidor Lloyd Hughes Madge Bellamy Theodore Roberts and Tully Marshall in key roles for the all star cast.
Richard Dix, a Goldwyn star, once worked as a medical student bank teller and lumber jack before entering the stage. His latest picture is titled Look Before You Leap.
Louise Glaum finishes I Am Guilty with Mahlon Hamilton as lead. Marion Davies begins Enchantment at Cosmopolitan. Dorothy Devore and Neal Burns lead in Christie comedy Sneakers. Marguerite Marsh, Mae Marsh’s sister, appears in current projects.
Director D W Griffith was the principal guest at a Friars dinner and dance at the Hotel Astor last Sunday night. Guests at his table included Alice Brady Mae Murray Dorothy and Lillian Gish Norma and Constance Talmadge Marion Davies and Madge Evans.
Universal engaged four leading actresses Jean Calhoun Jacqueline Logan Ruth Ashby and Gertrude Olmstead to appear with Frank Mayo in the film Three in a Thousand. The casting signals a high profile production and strong star power for the project.
The Boston Post item lists film figures and addresses for Wanda Hawley Pauline Frederick and others, noting marriages births and studio connections. It also describes Lafayette relics donated to the paper including a 200-year-old flint lock gun with George Washington Lafayette initials, duelling pistols and more from the chateau of Lafayette's birthplace, given by the Marquis de Lafayette to Miss C G Perry.
A column of practical tips covers washing milk from glassware by rinsing with cold water and testing watered milk with a knitting needle. It advises covering gas-range trays with newspaper and replacing soiled sheets, parboiling beans with soda, washing after boiling, and refreshing rugs with turpentine in warm water.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman offers an amusing character study of farm life framed as a Boston Sunday Post Magazine feature. The piece uses light humor to explore rural routines and eccentric neighbors.
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