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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1921
Page
19
Oscar L. Young the Attorney General of New Hampshire challenged critics of the unsolved 1918 murder of Dr. William K. Dean at East Jaffrey. He offered to step aside and let another prosecute if it ends disparaging mudsling against the state’s name.
Attorney-General Young offers to provide full facilities to prove charges against Cheshire county officials and state leaders in the Dean murder case. He stresses readiness to prosecute rather than persecute and invites complainers to take responsibility for any action and consequences.
The National Board of Reviews named Earthbound one of the year’s 2% big pictures as it opened its second week at the Majestic Theatre. The film’s love theme and tense drama of material and spiritual conflicts, along with notable double exposure photography and strong acting, are drawing growing interest and discussion.
In Batavia New York Mrs Augusta James reports benefit from Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. She says it cleared bronchial trouble strengthened her and built up her system. She recommends the tonic and blood purifier and offers trial packets by sending 10 cents to Dr Pierces Invalids Hotel Buffalo NY.
Belasco presents Call the Doctor at Tremont Theatre Boston last evening. The piece, a light satire from New York, features the original Belasco cast. It blends humor with social commentary, ending with a prompt for reflection on household life.
A Boston stage review of Jean Archibalds play Call the Doctor stars Charlotte Walker as the wronged wife and Janet Beecher as the clever doctor. It traces marriage drift toward reconciliation through witty scenes and strong acting by Belasco’s ensemble including Morris Merrivale and Beatrice Martin.
The Massachusetts Committee for Irish Relief received a cable from the Quaker Unit urging a $30,000,000 drive for Irish aid, citing widespread starvation in Dublin Cork and Belfast. They approve a permanent Irish business body to administer funds and seek American representatives to work with the committee until reconstruction is finished.
The cablegram reports visits to 75 towns in 19 counties and 36 of 42 cooperative creameries destroyed, with 90 percent of damage sites surveyed. It asserts unique comprehensive coverage, calls for immediate relief funds, and notes meetings with General MacCready and John Anderson.
Evan Burrow Fontaine the dancer leads the bill in Madonnas and Men a picture play at the Boston Theatre. The vaudeville lineup includes Fred La France Joe Kennedy the Hoy sisters Rudell and Dunigan Boudini Bernard Stras sell's animals a new comedy and kinograms and topics of the day accompany the feature.
The Fenway Theatre opens the week with The Inside of the Cup featuring William Church hill and Shirley Mason and The Flame of Youth with short subjects and Paul Thayer as soloist. On Thursday Thomas Meighan stars in The Frontier of the Stars.
The Beggar's Opera revival by the Amateurs at Jordan Hall benefits the Copley Society Building Fund. The production features strong acting, a small orchestra, vivid character drawing, and memorable songs, with repeat show planned for the 16th.
The week’s attraction at Waldron’s Casino is the burlesque production Jollities of 1920 by Sam Howe. Addison Burkart and Sam Howe are aided by Sammy Howard Cliff Bragdon and Helen Tarr. Cast includes Norma Barry Helen Rikhoff Lillian Norwood Harold Carr Frank Mallahan and the Jollities Jazz Band with a large beauty chorus.
The Arlington Theatre players staged a revival of Ten Nights in a Bar-room directed by Willard Dashiell. William Shelly Sullivan played Joel Morgan with Doris Haslett as his wife and Bernie Kelly as the daughter Mary.
Douglas Fairbanks stars in The Nut at Park Beacon and Modern theatres this week. The eccentric inventor falls for a New York girl in Greenwich Village with Doug playing the gay young Lothario and causing comic misadventures. Also showing is The Little Fool featuring The Little Lady of the Big House with Milton Sills Ora Crew Nigel Barrie Byron Munson Marjorie Prevost Helen Howard and Iva Forrester.
The Hollis Street Theatre in Boston closed its four week engagement of Abraham Lincoln after an final three weeks with crowds filling houses nightly. Critics and audiences praised the production for its stark portrayal and historical details.
Matteo Runci husband of Lucia Runci nee Lo Presti died. Funeral from 230 Dover Street on Wednesday March 16 at 1 30 PM. Friends and relatives invited.
The farce Twin Beds by Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field was revived at the Globe Theatre last evening before a large audience, delivering jazzy bits of jollity in a lively three act comedy.
The production remains a popular mirth maker in farce, with Zaina Curzon as Blanche Hawkins delivering sharp wit. R. M. D'Angelo as Monte provides strong entertainment, while Joseph Crehan as Harry Hawkins and the supporting cast deliver congenial, well-acted roles. Elaborate costumes heighten the production.
Otis Skinner stars in a screen version of Kis met shown at Gordon's 614 South Theatre Boston last night. A capacity audience filled the house with many turned away. The film surpasses the stage version in detail and settings. Skinner plays Hadj the beggar amid a sequence of dawn waking, arrests, pardons, marriage of his daughter to the Caliph, and avenging enemies, ending on the mosque steps.
George Arliss was seen at Gordon's Cambridge Central Square Theatre in The Devil giving a subtle, refined interpretation of a polite tempter. The Olympia Weekly debuts a new comic picture and five vaudeville acts including Submarine F-7 and Ray Fern and Mayce. Thursday features Twin Beds with Mr and Mrs Carter De Haven and five new vaudeville acts. The seventh Tarzan episode is an added attraction.
George White presents the second edition of Scandals of 1920 at the Colonial Theatre featuring Ann Pennington as the star. The revue includes about a dozen scenes from burlesque to extravaganza, with artistic scenery, attractive chorus girls, and a sprinkling of comedians.
Ann wows in cold cream and shimmering costumes with lively knees and varied personas including a Mexican bandit and a Kiss Me doll. George imitates dancers in a mainly scene free of plot with a jazzy ensemble and noted performers. The show features White, Gershwin music, and a 2.5 hour program with Bostonians and guests.
A Bowdoin Square Theatre program offers Dead Men Tell No Tales with Catherine Calvert, plus Mack Sennett's Four Small Town Idol featuring Ben Turpin and Charlie Chaplin reissue Work. Vaudeville includes Lorner Girls in Racing Days and acts Harper and Blanks Eckhoft and Gordon. Bargain night Friday. next week The Eternal Light Life of Christ.
A Japanese inspired discovery promises fast corn relief with Ice mint. Just a touch cools and soothes sore feet, lifting hard and soft corns and even tough calluses off without pain or skin irritation. Ask your drug store for Ice mint and treat tired feet.
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