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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1921
Page
7
A black chinchilla overcoat was left under the rear veranda of 95 Esmond Street Dorchester containing papers that may reveal the burglar’s identity. Mattapan police, seeking the thief who ransacked the Clements home, say he was scared away by Mrs. Clements’ bravery.
A burglar fled through a kitchen window after a break in at a household. A visiting card in a coat pocket suggested a Bos ton convalescent hospital visit as the likely lead to his arrest. Mrs. Clements awoke, challenged him, and he dropped a bundle of clothing on the lawn as he ran.
The Deaconess Hospital Campaign held its second luncheon at Ford Hall with over 300 workers present. Horace A. Carter presided as Rev. J. Edwin Lacount delivered the invocation. Three new teams formed, two led by ministers Albert C. Tyler and C. R. Ross, plus a team of new ministers and a freshmen team at Boston University Theological School. Pledges totaled $203,945.25.
Faris Feb 25 The permanent commission to study mandatories for the League of Nations includes W Cameron Forbes former American Governor General of the Philippines among members from Sweden Holland Italy Portugal and Britain Belgium and France appointing officials. The Japanese representative awaits appointment.
John Alden Carpenter's The Birthday of the Infant was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux in Boston yesterday. Carpenter attended and his score drew warm applause. Benno Moiseiwitsch debuted as soloist, delivering a romantic Schumann concerto praised as perhaps the finest in years. Brahms Second Symphony closed the concert, also well received under Monteux.
The Chicago Opera Company's planned March 6 ballet by Mr. Carpenter was postponed by stormy weather. The program featured a Wilde inspired scene with a birthday princess, gypsy dancers, a juggler, a bull fight, and a grotesque dwarf. Moiseiwitsch’s Schumann performance received high praise for authority and spontaneity, while Monteux conducted Brahms with lyric clarity and humor, delivering a delightful concert.
Monkeys at the zoo watched a clanging fire engine from their round house observation window after a fire broke out Saturday afternoon. Firemen, alerted by the zoo squad led by Dan Harkins, found smoldering shingles beneath the roof. the alarm likely prevented a larger disaster and saved valuable animals.
Screen gossip notes John Barrymore to be the youngest of theBarrymore trio. He began on stage at twenty in Magda and starred in Stubborn Cinderella The Fortune Hunter and Peter Ibbetson. He co stars with Lionel in The Jest and had notable photoplays including a Jekyll and Hyde turn. Now return with his own company at 88 years old after two marriages, the second to Mrs Leonard Thomas.
Wheeler Oakman is named star of five steel Western films titled The Broncho Kid, a name chosen from the rofl he played in The Spoilers. He is married to Universal star Priscilla Dean.
On February 10 the opera adaptation of The Cheat premiered at the Opera Comique in Paris. The screen version earlier featured Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa in lead roles.
Charles Ray is hard at work on filming The Midnight Bell. Frank Elliott holds a leading part in May Allison's current production entitled Dazed. Alan Forrest and Walter McGrail lead with Anita Stewart in The Invisible Fear. Agnes Ayres will play opposite Wallace Reid in Watch My Smoke.
Beverly addresses enlist film stars such as Hallam Coo ley Barbara Ray and Viola Dana with agency details. Notes Helen Ferguson engagement to William Russell and Jack Holt height and wife status. Mentions Constance Talmadge Mae Murray Gareth Hughes Helene Chadwick Colleen Moore Phyllis Haver Clara Horton and Prunella Hall with studios and cities across Hollywood Culver City New York and Los Angeles.
The H A Strout Farm Agency reports city workers facing unemployment or wage cuts are moving to farms at nearly double the rate of a year ago. The notice cites sales from over 60 offices nationwide, with New England leading the rise as February farm sales run about 200 percent above last year.
Joseph Marcott of 12 Jordan Court New Lebanon New Hampshire says thin blood and stomach pains left him unable to work for months. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills he reports relief from stomach trouble better sleep restored strength and richer blood. The Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady New York offers a booklet What to Eat and How to Eat and sells Pink Pills for sixty cents a box.
A period advertisement touts Pepto Mangan as a vitalizing blood tonic to relieve fatigue and restore energy. It claims physicians widely endorse it and emphasizes choosing the genuine Gude's Pepto Mangan in liquid or tablet form sold at drug stores.
United States Commissioner Hayes released Lo rense Michelak of Willard Avenue West Springfield on his own recognizance after federal officers aided his release from $500 bail for manufacturing liquor. Deputy Marshal Joe Quinn rallied deputies to raise $4.50 as Michelak reunited with his ill wife and seven children at their home, tears in his eyes. He had been held in Springfield awaiting federal grand jury action and was brought to East Cambridge jail a week earlier.
A Suffolk County jury will hear the contest over the will of Jeremiah J. McNamara a former police sergeant and Boston liquor dealer alleging unsoundness of mind and undue influence by his two sons John and Thomas. The estate worth about 230000 largely goes to the two sons with no provision for daughter Mary Curley or grandson John W. McNamara.
Manchester, N H February The New Hampshire Manufacturers Association calls for a reasonable number of immigrants for Granite State farms in a report released today amid an abandoned farm situation. Prominent farmers oppose the stance, signaling a wordy clash between manufacturers and agriculturists.
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