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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1922
Page
10
The Boston Post will publish headless pictures each day numbered for identification, without revealing names to the newspaper photographers. The images will appear in sequence, with future issues providing the corresponding captions and subjects when known.
Harvard University announced 124 awards totaling over 35000 dollars to students worldwide including 41 percent from New England. Greater Boston recipients include John I Hotson Cambridge Randall Thompson Roxbury and many others from Cambridge Somerville Dorchester and Boston. Also listed are winners from Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island Connecticut and international youths from China Belgium and India. Three Murphys, L F Murphy Chadwicks New York P T Murphy Dorchester and T B Murphy Medford, are singled out for annual scholarships.
Rocco Scicciitant, convicted of killing Patrolman Thomas J. Riley on November 2, 1920, was moved to the state prison yesterday to await execution in mid June. Handcuffed to Sheriff John R. Fairbairn, he left East Cambridge jail smoking a cigarette and was received by Warden Elmer E. Shattuck who placed him in Cell 1 of the death house. He requested a priest of his own nationality.
The Sandy Islanders alumni of the Boston YMCA summer camp at Lake Winnipesaukee join for an afternoon and evening reunion at the Huntington Avenue YMCA. Members will test swimming strokes at 6:30 in the natatorium and a camp bean supper is served at 6:30.
Screen gossip places Sam Wood as director of Gloria Swanson silk lined dramas. Once an actor, Wood prefers directing and has helmed Miss Swanson in Her Great Moment Under the Lash Her Husband's Trademark Beyond the Rocks and The Gilded Cage. Upon Swanson reporting to Lasky Studio, Wood will direct The Impossible Mrs Bellow. He is married with a baby daughter named Gloria after Swanson.
Percy Marmont has been cast as Mark Sabre in If Winter Comes to be filmed in England by Fox Company. The rest of the cast is not yet chosen. Marmont sailed on the Berengaria last Tuesday with director Harry Millarde. He has been leading man for several stage and screen stars and is an English actor making his screen debut era.
The Goldwyn Company hires humorist Montague Glass to craft the titles for Hungry Hearts, Anzia Yezierska’s story of Jewish life on New York City’s East Side. The cast includes Rose Rosanova Bryant Washburn Helen Ferguson George Siegmann and Kate Lester.
Madge Kennedy begins work on her first production for the Kennila Corporation with Dear Me as the title. Monte Blue Vincent Coleman and Dore Davidson will support Miss Kennedy in the project.
Dorothy Dalton and Jack Holt star in On the High Seas a Sheldon written screen story. Grace Darmond headlines The Wheel of Fortune in a special picture. Sunshine Mary Anderson leads Wild Youth an Ivan Abramson production.
King Vidor has been chosen to direct Laurette Taylor in Peg o My Heart. Production will start next month at the Metro studios in Hollywood.
Miss G reports Mildred Harris, Chaplin's ex wife, on tour in a vaudeville sketch. Earle Williams weds Florine Walz. his new release is The Man from Downing Street. Constance Talmadge has an interlocutory divorce from Join Pialogiu and may remarry soon outside California. Peg o My Heart filmed by Paramount with Wanda Hawley and Thomas Meighan, rights later in litigation.
Three Follies performers from Paragon Park publicly smoked on Nantasket Beach prompting confusion among police. Metropolitan District Commission Chair James Bailey stated there is no law against beach smoking, and the incident ended with the realization that women may smoke on the beach if they wish.
Prohibition agents pursue a major rum running ring linked to 600 quarts of rye seized Thursday. An investigation traced liquor to a booze truck driver Vincent De Mauro and a chase from here to Andover, with searches of the City of Atlanta and a Savannah Line ship yielding no liquor. Officials say liquor was hidden in burlap bags covered with wet sand and likely landed from an overseas liner.
A campaign by police captains targets improper license plate placement. Drivers report notices asking them to explain why their plates are not properly displayed. Some high priced cars are flagged for plate height and readability violations. The law requires the bottom of the plate to be horizontal, 8 to 40 inches from the ground and kept clean for readability at 60 feet.
Each morning in this paper we announce that day’s leading bar gain attraction in our store. Merchandise offered will be up to standard quality and priced lower than similar articles in Boston. Items are on sale only on the day the advertisement appears and while quantities last.
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