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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1922
Page
7
Chicago Aug 2 Sears Roebuck Company announced it will retire all outstanding interest bearing common dividend script at maturity Aug 15 without new borrowing. The current outstanding amount is 1,300,000 while 2,190,000 remained on Dec 31 Last. President Julius Rosenwald noted cash balances ranging from 8,000,000 to 11,100,000.
Former United States Senator Frank S. White of Birmingham died here last night of pneumonia at age 77. He was a Confederate veteran.
Worcester reports Francis Fox an 11 year old from 6 Oden Avenue growing a remarkable double radish with two bulbs one above the other. The vegetable shows half red and half white and illustrates a young gardener’s early exploration of nature.
Helen Ferguson rises from Misany Company schoolgirl to leading lady in a Goldwyn special. She played neglected wives at seventeen and now, five years later, appears as a young bachelor maid opposite Bryant Washburn while rumors connect her with William Russell.
Roxbury police say two youths Edward McGonagal 16 of South Boston and Eugene Barrows 17 of Roxbury were taken into custody for breaking into A J Baker haberdashery at 269 Center Street. They face arraignment on night of Aug a for larceny of clothes amid a string of similar incidents blamed on a band of unemployed youths.
Behind the scenes at Gloria Swanson’s Para mount feature The Impossible Mrs. Bellew scenes unfold at a French seaside resort with a troupe of bathing girls. Swanson recalls Sennett bathing beauty days and flaunts over a dozen chic Paris outfits from her European trip.
A Boston Post item notes requests for a one sided story sheet and a 1 to 800 word synopsis for a five reel picture. It mentions Mrs M L C and Prunella Hall, asking readers to address story questions to Prunella Hall in Boston.
Robin Hood star Douglass Fairbanks unsure of acting as the slow moving hero in The Virginian may turn producer instead. He hints that, advised by Mary Pickford, he could produce the film with another actor in the title role, possibly shooting near Yellowstone Park, the story’s locale.
Channing Pollock’s latest play The Kool with Richard Bennett in the lead opened at the Majestic Theatre Los Angeles. Early attendees read like a Filmland Who’s Who including Nazimova Dexter Meighan Lytell Stone Lemon Carlisle Keaton Lewis Roberts and others.
Harrisburg officials report the State Board of Pardons will meet August 10 to consider a pardon for Frank Smith of Philadelphia alias Jesse Donahue who faces 17 to 13 years for assault and battery and other offenses and is sought by Massachusetts for murder. extradition requested to proceed there. The pardon could affect a crime for which the Rollins brothers have already been convicted.
The Reid mansion in Beverly Hills appears deserted as Wallace Reid works at Lasky studio in Hollywood finishing The Ghostbreaker Dorothy Davenport performs in vaudeville around Los Angeles in a sketch titled The Blue Flame Bill Reid age five joins curtain calls with his mother in Wild West attire provided by William S Hart The Reids may soon perform together in a vaudeville sketch.
Buster Keaton is hard at work conceiving fresh gags for his latest First National comedy The Love Nest, aiming to blend humor with visual invention and timing.
Mildred Malden and Betty Compson lead in The Bonded Woman and To Have and To Hold. David Powell with Gloria Swanson stars in The Gilded Cage. Amna Nilsson in Pink Gods. Shirley Mason at Fox studio. Talmadge sisters at United studios. Nagel at Lasky studio. Send 20 cents for photo. Billie Mulhall’s early A acting. recent marriage to Evelyn Winans. first wife’s suicide last year.
New York aug 2 News that Dr William Sergeant Kendall an artist and former Yale School of Fine Arts director who was divorced in Paris on July 15 was to marry Christine Herter wealthy artist surprised members of her artistic family. Uncles and friends knew nothing of the marriage.
William Youldon, 72, a Brockton Mass shoe manufacturer, died suddenly of heart disease at St Stephen New Brunswick while on his annual vacation at his native home. He is survived by one sister, Mrs Florence Shaal of Brookline Mass.
A quoted line from The Stock Market Barometer stresses the nation’s reliance on market indicators. The New York Times and The Boston News Bureau reflect business interests shaping public discourse and economic confidence.
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