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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1919
Page
9
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero returns to Boston with The Thunderbolt at the Copley Theatre via the Henry Jewett Players. The afternoon performance presents the playwright in a new light, contrasting his recent problem plays with a focus on greed and heartlessness.
Edward Mortimer dies at the play’s start leaving no will. Heaped with wealth his heirs gather for the estate, except Thaddeus Mortimer the outcast who married a grocer’s daughter. Thaddeus’ wife confesses erasing the latest will naming his natural daughter Helen Thornhill.
A drama directed by Henry Jewett features a tangled plot of a friendship with Thaddeus and his wife and a near felony settlement. The cast includes H. Conway-Winefield, E. E H. Clive, Jessamine Newcombe, Mary Hamilton, Phyllis Relph, Viola Roach, Anabel Montagu, Cameron Matthews, Leonard Craske, Noel Leslie, Nicholas Joy and Fred W. Permain delivering strong ensemble performances.
Fireworks a banquet and the unveiling of a bronze tablet will mark a welcome home for St Marys Catholic Association of Cambridge service men. The tablet lists 427 names with 18 gold stars for those who sacrificed. Brig Gen Cole Rear Admiral Wood and Col Logan will speak. Margaret Greehan leads the decorating efforts with the ladies’ association.
A WWI personal account from New England volunteers details March 1918 gas bombardment near a valley supply point, a blinded hospital-term recovery, and the Chateau Thierry advance. The narrative covers Seicheprey and Tou sector experiences, trench work, and a battle sequence toward Epids amid heavy shelling and retreat and regrouping.
Sergeant D. Robert MacSwain, base hospital 44, recently landed in New York after a year abroad and telephoned his father Alexander MacSwain of Roxbury. He plans a furlough to join a long awaited family reunion at Camp Mills en route from a transport. He was previously in mercantile and building work before enlisting. Receptions are planned in his honor by local organizations.
The 1101st infantry joined the assault alongside three French artillery batteries with 75mm guns. Shells rained on the town and Roche positions as troops advanced through town and into the woods beyond, meeting heavy resistance until relief by the 28th and 42d divisions. The narrative continues tomorrow.
In St Albans Vermont April 22 only 11 of a 32 jurors and 40 special panel survived challenges in the State vs Robert Warm murder case. Warm, a Fort Ethan Allen soldier, is accused of killing 14 year old Jennie Hemmingway in St Albans Aug 12 1917. The Vermont Supreme Court sent the case back for a new trial due to juror misconduct.
New Orleans April 22 George Ward of New York president of the American Association of the Baking Industry told the Southeastern Baking Industry convention that bread prices will not fall even if flour costs drop. He cited rising materials operating and labor costs as offsetting any flour price decrease.
New York April 22 The treason charge against Albert Paul Fricke alleging aid and comfort to German agent Karl Rodiger will be given to a federal jury Thursday Judge Mayer said he will instruct acquittal on the first count and limit deliberations to the second count about funds furnished to Rodiger The jury was excused for the day.
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