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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1920
Page
20
President Wilson issued a sharp rebuke to Pennsylvania anthracite miners threatening a Labor Day walkout unless he backed the minority report of the Anthracite Coal Commission. The minority favored a 27 percent wage increase, while the majority recommended 17 percent.
In a telegram to anthracite miner leaders President Wilson cautions that if their ultimatum to strike before Sept 1 1920 is a threat it will be rejected. The note follows approval of the commission majority report which recommended about a 17 percent wage rise and back pay totaling roughly 218 million. Conciliators await Sept 2 Scranton talks with miners and operators.
Dr. Edgar C. Abbott of Boston, a lecturer and noted Unitarian clergyman, died when his touring car overturned at Four Mile Hill in East Lyme. Mrs. Sarah L. Pearce of Raymond, California, survived but was badly shaken and treated at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital after the crash while en route from New York to Newport.
A sailing tale shows at Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia and Gordon's Olympia with The Mutiny of the Elsinore beginning a week run. Andreas Mellaire schemes for Margaret West before leading mutiny. John Pike belts the revolt. Cast includes Mitchell Lewis Helen Ferguson Noah Beery Casson Ferguson and others. The bill blends pictures and vaudeville.
Last night the Cambridge Central Square Theatre presented The Family Honor detailing a youth who loses his fortune in a gambling hell run by the town mayor. The show includes a Southern girl shaping her two brothers and vaudeville acts. Thursday Mildred Hart Chaplin appears in Polly of the Storm Country.
At the St James Theatre Passers By is the leading film for the first half of the week. The Dumbwaiter's Scandal news and vaudeville includes The Dance Phantasies Wells and allace Avenie Story Zuln and Dress and Nash and Thomas aerial wonders. Thursday Man and His Woman TM is the principal attraction along with Demp rey No 10 comedy news and all new vaudeville.
The Lancaster Theatre bill lists His Wife's Money with Eugene O'Brien and Madlaine Traversé, The Iron Heart, plus Thursday's shows featuring Jane Novak in The Golden Trail and Elaine Hammerstein in Widapers.
Emma Carus headlines a Keiths Theatre program with Irving and Jack Kaufman Bradley and Ardine and other acts. Carus performs new songs including Everybody Loves the Irish and showcases gowns. Ruth pictures and a Babe Ruth injury are noted among the lineup.
Crowds packed Gordon's Old South Theatre for the fourth week of its reopening as part of Gordon's Olympia chain. Mary Pickford stars in Heart O the Hills as a fiery feud daughter with a notable courtroom scene. Arthur J. Martel provided organ accompaniment as other strong features elevated the program.
Yesterday the Cute Cuties burlesque company at the Howard Atheneum presented a lively show headlined by Frank Damsel Frances Farr and Harry Seymour with Manny Besser. Lillian Herbert Rose Allen Eddie Golden and others performed in varied acts as the chorus led audiences to Atlantis and Four Ortems plus a vaudeville act and a William S Hart film.
Mayor Charles W. Eldredge leads officials attending the Somerville Theatre debut of Civilian Clothes staged by the Somerville Players. Anne Bronaugh Carroll Ashburn and John Gordon head the group, praised for the well staged production under Kendall Weston. The Crimson Alibi is set for next week in America.
Conway Tearle stars in Marooned Hearts at the Boston theatre all week a tale of selfish love that ruins a character. Vaudeville bill features Roger Gray and Company in a big laughing offering Ben Meroff and Company with Shadows of Broadway Highlights Alt St Johns aeronauts Frances and Hume Frank Shields the lariat thrower and the Breen family. Extra attraction Babe Ruth home run pictures show his hitting movements.
Despite many New England cities contracting for the film the Tremont Temple in Boston keeps the picture for another week due to immense popularity. Audiences filled the temple yesterday and watched a two hour reel depicting the Kla Kia tribe of cannibals.
At the Fenway Theatre House Peters stars in Silk Husbands and Calico Wives with Tom Moore in The Great Accident and Henry Kelley as a leader. H R Warner in Unchartered Channels and Maurice Tourneur’s The White Circle join in, along with Henry Kelley, Burton Holmes travel pictures, and Fenway Topical Review.
The Strand Theatre presents Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as the main attraction with Robert Warwick in The Manil Man on the same bill along with the Strand Weekly, a comedy and organ recital. On Thursday Mrs Mildred Harrie appears in Polly of the Storm Country.
Up to and including Wednesday evening the Exeter presents Norma Talmadge in Yes or No and Sessue Hayakawa in An Arabian Knight. The remainder of the week features King Victor's special The Family Honor and Charles Ray in Homer Comes Home.
The Globe Theatre box office opens today for seals on Pitter Patter a new musical comedy to start its season and mark a policy change next Monday night based on Caught in the Rain by William Collier Grant Stewart. William B. Friedlander wrote the score and Will M. Hough the book with a cast including Jane Richardson William Kent Helen Bolton John Frice Jones Jack Squires Fred Hall Mildred Keats Hugh Chilvers and others.
At Loew’s Orpheum Theatre this week every act is a headline number. Conn and Whiting open the bill followed by Billy Layden Menners and Loweree in A Long Flirtation. Constance Binney is seen in 39 Hast. Thursday features H B Warner in The Hour Before Dawn and more vaudeville.
Large crowds enjoyed five vaudeville acts and two photoplays at Loew’s Columbia Theatre. Dorothy Gish starred in Remodelling Her Husband and Holbrook Blinn in The Ivory Snut Box, with Ethel Clayton in A Lady of Love and Robert Warwick in The Man He Forget slated as top attractions for the latter half of the week.
The Codman Square Theatre presents four vaudeville acts and Corrine Griffith in The Garter Girl with a two reel comedy and photo play supplement. On Thursday the top attraction changes to Tom Mix in Three Gold Coins.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presented The Lone Star run featuring William Farn Ranger and The World and His Wife with Alma Rubens and Montagu Love. Ed die Polo starred in The Vanishing Dagger. Vaudeville featured Lewis and Manning and others. Friday night bargains added. next week The Fighting Chance tops the bill.
Dorothy Dalton starts the bill in His Wife's Friend at Park Theatre this week. Wallace Reid appears Wednesday and Thursday in Hawthorne of the U. S. A. with Lila Lee Harrison Ford Theodore Roberts and Tully Marshall. Hubert Bosworth stars in Behind the Door Friday and Saturday.
The Shubert Theatre opened its final Boston week last night with Kissing Time led by William Norris and Edith Taliaferro. Dorothy Maynard Paul Frawley Frank Doane and Harry Coleman provide the song and humor as audiences applaud the production. East is West with Fay Bainter follows on Labor Day as the next city engagement.
The Gayety Theatre features Sam Howe's Jollities of 1920 this week with three leading performers Sammy Howard Cliff Bragdon and Helen Farr providing most of the comedy. The cast includes Caroline Ross Norma Barry Helen Rikhoff Lillian Norwood Harold Carr Frank Mallahan William F. Collins the Synce Melody orchestra and an attractive chorus.
The Temple Players staged Owen Davis mystery drama at Malden Auditorium yesterday. Miss Bushnell and Mr Meade led the cast with strong performances. the company benefited from added members due to the drama’s many parts.
The Golden Crook Company performs at Waldrons Casino this week in a musical comedy revue about a Chinese laundry’s clever scheme. The plot features a Western union leader urging a shift to American girls, causing humorous complications. William Bence stars as the Chinese character comedian.
A film tracing Yukon early days, its first daily paper, and rugged settlers. Finth Bennett stars in Hairpins as a house hold drudge who learns from her husband’s stenographer.
Mrs. Jimmie Thompson will entertain soldiers from Parker Hill Hospital at an Labor Day matinee at Plymouth Theatre. Joseph Klaw presents the show in Boston and served in the war, keeping a warm spot for the boys who went over. Advance sale for Mrs. Jimmie Thompson opens at the box office this morning.
South Boston new vaudeville and motion picture palace opens Friday at 6 30 PM with continuous performances until 11 PM. Opening night feature is J Warren Kerrigan in The Green Flame followed by a long varied vaudeville bill. After opening week shows run 1 30 to 5 30 and 6 30 to 11 PM.
The Wilbur Theatre reports unprecedented demand for Irene with Helen Shipman in the lead role. Advance ticket sales indicate a record month for Boston venues.
The current week is the final limited engagement of Turn to the Right at the Arlington Theatre. The production features a capable cast and first class staging. On Labor Day Monday Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield present Look Who's Here.
The Little Whopper at Majestic Theatre enters its third week with Labor Day matinee. Lead Vivienne Segal remains the drawing card alongside cast members Harry C. Browne W W J Ferguson Helen Gunther and George Rasely as tickets sell briskly.
Georges Carpentier the European heavyweight champion headlines the Norumbega Park Theatre lineup with musical attractions by Mildred Parker Francis and Love and the Australian La Merta. A children’s show Rip Van Winkle runs today and Friday.
A weather summary notes mean barometer mean temperature and mean dew point with mean relative humidity. It records maximum and minimum temperatures and references a large total of fresh pounds of something noted by a meteorologist WwW 8 nearly 1 200 000.
A fleet of 18 vessels delivered 1,196,700 pounds of haddock cod hake flounders pollock and halibut to the Fish pier. Some boats held over for higher prices while others sailed to Gloucester to sell to splitters. Swordfish also arrived from four vessels with limited yardage.
Shipping brief lists numerous schooners tugs barges and steamers moving between New York Boston Portland and Canadian ports. Vessels include Lake Fighting Prince George and Ocean steamers while names like Nickerson Beechwood Pitteton Co., Gloucester, Providence, Camden and Bangor appear amid a flurry of nautical activity.
Workers at the Boston and Worcester Street Railway voted 144 to 4 for a wage strike to raise pay from 62 to 69 cents an hour. The vote occurred at the Central Labor Union Hall in Framingham, with strike sanction sent to the international headquarters. The current contract expires tomorrow, and arbitration is proposed by the company on financial ability, while the union seeks wage arbitration.
Forest Hills N Y Aug 30 Surprises marked the opening matches of the 39th annual all comers national tennis championship at the West Side Tennis Club. Davis Cup stars including William M Johnston of San Francisco, the defending champion, survived the opening rounds.
Carl Fischer, Francis T Hunter and G Colbet Caner stretched the court and nerves in a string of third set thrillers. Norris Williams fell to Caner in straight sets while Williams edged Hunter in a marathon four setter 8 6 3 6 2 10 8. Tilden defeated Rice with sharp power in Wimbledon style fashion 6 4 6 3 6 2.
In South Boston on Aug 80 Dennis Long husband of Delia L Long funeral from 770 East Broadway on Thursday Sept 2 at 8 am with mass at Gate of Heaven Church at 9 am auto cortege and Farragut Lodge LL D of Workmen No 165. Peter J McKenna husband of Catherine Nolan McKenna funeral from 603 East Sixth St on Thursday Sept 2 at 8 am with solemn mass at Gate of Heaven Church at 10 am auto cortege and SS Peter and Paul's Court M C notes.
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