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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1921
Page
23
Fragmentary letter draft seeks to attract the Sewing Circle editor and gain attention. It states the piece is not for publication and appears intended as an icebreaker or greeting rather than a formal article.
A long reader letter asks if a husband may read his wife's mail and argues for shared letters. Contributors from REDHEAD and ONE BETTER HALF defend privacy, warn jealousy, and urge trust, sharing opinions on marriage rights and censoring letters.
A man asks if he should seek the return of letters from a popular dancer he has broken with. The columnist argues her social life and spending are not faults, defending dancing, generosity, and high standards while condemning the display of other men's letters.
Francois Comptois a protege of Father Finn of the Paulist Choir will sing in Symphony Hall on Sunday evening April 7 and again on Patriots Day. The 14 year old coloratura soprano from Chicago trained at the Paulist School in New York has earned praise at home and abroad and impressed Pope Pius X during a European tour.
The Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging President Harding to recognize the Irish Republic by a 101 to 10 vote with little debate before the roll call.
Satin novelties in coats gain appeal for women of taste while canes remain popular. Capes stay in style in twills and duvetyne, with softer draped crops and satins. Quilted and brimmer collars appear, sometimes two lengths gathered about the neck and finished with draped shawl collars.
Poem fragment recalls Flynn of Virginia not known to the speaker. A miner or tunnel scene unfolds with Flynn aiding others as danger looms. The speaker repeats Flynn’s courage and asks listeners to claim they knew him or served with him in adversity.
Receipts for potato dainty and Grandmother's Pork Pie plus Salmon Salad and Cottage Pie from New England housewives. Recipes include mashed potato cakes with ham, baked pork pie with apples and salt pork, salmon salad with lettuce and dill dressing, and cottage pie with beef and mashed potato topping. Names and addresses of contributors appear.
Marguerite Gabrielle Courtot born 1897 in Summit New Jersey trained in New York and Switzerland. Her career included posing for Harrison Fisher and acting in Kalem films before starring in Pathe serials Pirate Gold Bound and Gagged and Velvet Fingers with George B. Seitz. She stands five feet two inches, 110 pounds with golden brown hair and blue eyes.
Names of actors and studios across New York Los Angeles and Maine appear in a reader notice from the Boston Post. It lists Anita Stewart Viola Dana Earle Williams Alice Joyce Billie Burke and others with studio affiliations and addresses. A few personal notes note marriages births and stage history along with inquiries to Prunella Hall.
Facts and Fashions highlights the Directoire influence in current style. Skirt edges show diamond-shaped scalloping while spring hats feature shells straw flowers leather cutouts and wooden beads. Colors favor gray blue and black.
Douglas Fairbanks works as D Artagnan in The Three Musketeers at his Hollywood studio. Mary MacLaren returns as leading lady with Marguerite de la Motte Barbara La Marr Adolph Menjou and Thomas Holding in the cast.
Elinor Glyn will play a noblewoman in her phoetopley The Great Moment written for Gloria Swanson. The project marks Glyn’s return to acting and adds a collaboration with Swanson for the screen adaptation.
Clara Kimball Young nears completion of Charge It based on Irving Bachellor novel. Priscilla Dean to start The Conflict after finishing False Colors. Florence Moore signed by Metro for Breakfast in Bed and Human Hearts. Hal Reid, author of the popular melodrama, is noted with his son Wallace Reid and his death announced.
At about 9 am on April 19 1775 Lord Percy departs Boston Common with three regiments of infantry and two divisions of marines and two field pieces. The column travels via Boston Neck and Roxbury following Dawes message route toward Cambridge. A milestone reading Boston seven miles from 1729 is noted along the way and can be seen near the North Harvard Street School yard.
In Cambridge the author walks the Dawes and Lord Percy route to the old schoolhouse near North Harvard Street. An adjacent house is cited as Washington sleeping place. At the Charles River bridge site, soldiers crossed thanks to planks saved by Cambridge Selectmen who piled them by the Cam side for troops and cannon to pass.
A set of home tips includes placing window screens in the upper half to cool kitchens and keep curtains clean, plus quick stain removal using glycerine on linen and fruit or coffee stains. It also notes aging a china egg mending ball for stocking color matching and credits Annie 8. Goldsmith of Beverly Massachusetts.
The record shows William Farnum born July 4, 1876. It lists Arlene M. Brockton Address Ruth Roland at Pathe Film Co Hollywood Cal Eugene O Brian at Selznick Pictures Corp 807 Rast One Hundred and Seventy-fifth.
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