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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1921
Page
5
The Shipping Board advertises sealed bids for supplying equipment for the steward's department of the steamship Leviathan, the largest US flag vessel. Bids open Dec 29 at IMC in New York, two months given to prepare.
In Lot-et-Garonne, France, William Brugere known as Bill sold his wife to his brother Marty for a bag of potatoes and a gun after a deadly robbery and arson against an elderly farmer and his wife. The six assailants were sentenced to the guillotine or hard labor.
George Koehn told his wife he had found a job after weeks of searching, and they celebrated. Later his body was found in the kitchenette with the gas on and a note reading Your Untruthful Husband stating I have lied to you for the last time.
Clemens Pirquet a renowned Vienna University of Medicine professor will lecture at Harvard Medical School on preventive medicine. He will deliver two talks on December 21 on Tuberculosis in children and on quantitative nutrition.
In Brockton William Kave aged 12 of 12 Intervale Street was struck this afternoon by an approaching automobile driven by George J. Loving of Brockton while playing tag. He was rushed to Brockton City Hospital placed on the dangerous list with small chances of recovery.
The People's Symphony under Mr. Mollenhauer gave its eighth concert at the Arlington Theatre yesterday. The program featured Beethoven Eighth, Westerhout Ronde D amour, The Rosary of Nevin, Komzak A Fairy Tale, and Liszt First Hungarian Rhapsody. Cellist Karl Zeise assisted, praised for his beautiful tone and thoughtful interpretation of Boellmann Variations. The ensemble offered unity and strong overall performance, drawing a large, appreciative crowd.
The screen gossip profiles a blonde cinema actress Francisco who moved from vaudeville with her sister to Broadway via Maytime and Winter Garden appearances. She acted with Agnes Ayres and Jerome Patrick in The Furnace and later starred in Midsummer Madness Greater Than Love and Straight From Paris.
Rudolph Valentino secures a leading role opposite Gloria Swanson in the Paramount film Beyond the Rocks written for Swanson by Elinor Glyn. The project marks Valentino’s return to a top billing ahead of his first major vehicle with the studio.
Fidward Hearn stars opposite Jane Novak in The Starveling his second independent production. Hearn previously played opposite Anita Stewart in A Question of Honor. Los Angeles Times notes Edythe Sterling wed L T Osborne the producer and Sterling is Art Acord ex wife. Osborne is father of Baby Mario Osborne and is on location in Miami Florida acting opposite Corinne Griffith in Island Wives.
The note cites Edith Roberts as five feet tall with brown hair and eyes and recalls James Morrison from Black Beauty, linking actors to Vita graph days with Maurice Costello and Dorothy Kelly. It ends by directing readers to Prunella Hall at the Boston Post for further questions.
The Famous Players Lasky Company will revise the drama Bought and Paid For with William de Mille directing. The production, well known in earlier years, is to be updated for modern audiences.
Brockton, Dec. 11 Daniel C. Reardon of East Main Street Avon was taken to Brockton City Hospital this noon with a possible fractured skull after his car crashed into a telegraph pole on the Brockton Avon road. He lost control and struck the pole breaking it off at the ground. The car was demolished. Reardon was found unconscious and placed on the dangerous list.
George Hobart's Sonny, seen briefly on Broadway this fall, was acquired by Inspiration Pictures Corporation to be adapted for film for use by star Richard Barthelmess.
Readers supply identifications for actors and roles. Chester Conklin is suspected for a query, Sydney Mason details awaited, and Mary Hay played Kate in Way Down East with Richard Barthelmess as her husband. Other notes name Al Nazimova’s marriage to Charles Bry and Creighton Hale as the professor.
Meyer Schwartz, a Lawrence shoe dealer, identified John J. Collins of Lynn as the man who passed a forged $40 check for a $6 pair of shoes and received $14 change. The bank detected the forged signature on the check drawn on a local bank payable to W. J. Chase. Collins faces larceny charges in district court tomorrow. The narrative includes stray lines about a theater manager and a joke.
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