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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1921
Page
18
Brokers and customers quoted around seven percent for many loans with variations. Outside brokers offer quick calls at seven percent. Individual collateral and commercial loans show seven to eight percent. Year money ranges from seven to eight percent in the market.
The market rose in motor and some stock groups while industrials lagged. U S Steel and others slipped. Rail shares declined and the steel sector ran near low capacity. debates over rail unification dominated. Analysts seek foreign trade aid and new credit plans with Hoover's commerce role seen as a catalyst. Economic outlook warms as treaties and external loans spark cautious optimism.
The list shows native beef cuts and pork products with prices per hundred pounds and per pound, dairy items, butter, cheese, and margarine, along with grains and farm staples. It covers cornmeal, oats, hay, feeds, flour, potatoes, poultry, and various vegetables with regional origin notes and unit prices.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation reported gross sales and earnings for 1920 totaling 274,431,236 with a decrease of 7,210,671. Net earnings were 36,351,551 down 1,089,665 and net income 14,458,836 down 898,025. End of year orders stood at 168,295,328, below 1919 and 1917 peaks, though new construction orders should keep shipyards busy this year.
A dense OCR fragment shows a bank of bond listings and dollar values across rail and utility issuers. Names include Pacific, Southern Ry, Western lines, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Union Pacific with varied coupons and maturities.
Two revues at B. F. Keiths this week feature Marie Nordstrom with Frances Nordstrom and William Rock plus seven dancers. Nordstrom delivers songs dances and sketches while Rocks Revue showcases seven young dancers and acts like The Pianu tist and Laughs Coated with Melodies. The program includes O Mesras Tim and Kitty dancing acts and other entertainers with Kinograms and Topics of the Day.
Augustus Thomas's Colorado photodrama heads a week at the Modern and Beacon Theatres with Frank Mayo in a starring vehicle. Wanda Hawley follows in The Outside Woman, a domestic comedy about a wife who thrifts to the junk man. Then Hard Luck features Buster Keaton in his rising screen giggle act.
The Sporting Widows come to Waldrons Casino this week for a new production. Proprietors Jacobs and Jermon retain Al K Hall as lead comic with a strong supporting cast including Bob Startzman George Weist June Le Veau Gertrude Beck Eugenie LaBlanc and the Rex trio. The company is described as a jolly coterie whose aim is to make the world happy.
The Back Bay theatre patrons enjoy a three star programme at the St James Theatre headlined by Madonnas and Men a beautiful super production. Buster Keyton appears in Hard Luck five acts of vaudeville Pathe News and screen snapshots with special music by Hector's St James Orchestra. Thursday Tom Mix appears in The Road Demon Velvet Lingers No 18 a new comedy news and vaudeville.
Boston Theatre features the screen version of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty as the week’s leader. The vaudeville bill stars Charles and Madeline Dunbar with animal fynology, the Rovenberg sisters, Sime Neary in a new revue, Frank Farren, Bert Rome and Betty Wagner in Come on Red, the Carpos brothers, Buster Keaton's latest comedy, exclusive Kinograms and current topics.
Otis Skinner stars in Kismet at Gordon's Olympia Theatre with popular prices. Skinner has long played Hajt on stage, joined by Hamilton Revelle who appears as Mansur in the picture. Rosemary Theby and Elinor Fair earn praise in their roles as Kut al Kulb and Marsinah. The program includes newsreels, a new comic picture, and five acts of vaudeville.
The Griffith picturization of Way Down East continues its 27th week at Tremont Temple in Boston with Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in heroic roles. Griffiths special musical score features a selected symphony ensemble.
Lawrence and Lowell police pursue Michael J. Gardner of Lowell after he evaded arrest in a larceny case. Indicted for stealing $1700 in diamonds from Esther Barlow and from Franz Schneider. bail set at 4000. Capias ordered by Judge J. J. Mahoney. Gardner disappeared from the courtroom, triggering a renewed manhunt.
David Belasco produced comedy Call the Doctor continues at Tremont Theatre with a notable cast led by Janet Beecher Charlotte Walker Philip Merivale Fania Marinoff Jane Houston William Morris and Mrs Tom Wise in the second week of performances.
George White's Scandals of 1920 continues its second week at the Colonial Theatre. The revue moves swiftly with constant energy and a parade of headline artists. Ann Pennington stands out as especially charming with ample stage moments.
Anita Stewart appeared in Harriet and the Piper for a three day engagement at Gordon's Strand Theatre. The program also features Will Rogers in Honest Hutch Buster Keaton in The Haunted House and the Strand Weekly with a Thursday change to Twin Beds starring Mr and Mrs Carter De Haven.
For today and Wednesday the Exeter Street Theatre features Isobel with James Oliver Curwood and Alice Lake in The Greater Claim. Harold Lloyd stars in Number Please with Alice Brady later in the week in Out of the Chorus and Allan Dwan special The Perfect Crime.
The first half of the week at the Fenway Theatre features Paying the Piper with short subjects and soloists Miss Drew and Miss Davidson. On Thursday Fatty Arbuckle stars in Brewers Millions and Alice Joyce appears in Cousin Kate, with the two leading acts listed for the program.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents a well balanced bill featuring Cecil B. DeMille’s Something to Think About with Gloria Swanson Elliott Dexter Monte Blue and Theodore Roberts. Also shown The Eternal Light in Holy Land style, Buster Keaton in Hard Luck and Son of Tarzan, vaudeville acts Ca mille trio George and White Morse sisters and more. Beginning March 28 Heliotrope and Midsummer Madness join the program.
Automobiles replace horses in many ways yet fail to replace emotion as audiences respond to Black Beauty with Ginger and Jessie on screen. Jean Paige shines as Jessie while Just a Wife and The Woman God Sent headline the week. Vaudeville features include Anderson and Graves Charming Trene and Burke and Bache among others.
Mildred Harris in Irene delivers a fine performance as a New York importer’s daughter whose public facade masks private debt and family strain. A stair accident leads to a dream sequence revealing dramatic events, with newsreel, a comic, and organ recital by Arthur J. Martel as additional attractions.
Next Monday evening marks violinist Efrem Zimbalist’s debut as a composer in Boston as Joe Weber stages the sparkling musical comedy Honeydew. The show features librettist Joseph Herbert and original New York cast members Hal Forde Sam Ash Theresa Maxwell Conover Dorothy Follis Frank Gill Mile Marguerite Etheline Terry John Park John Dunsmore Marie Hall and a chorus of women.
Sam Cohen’s amateurs perform Monday evenings at Loew’s Columbia Theatre augmenting the bill for the first half of the week. The program includes four vaudeville acts and screenings of Wallace Reid in Always Audacious and Mme. Nazimova in The Heart of a Child. A new comedy and latest news events finish the program. The final three days feature new vaudeville attractions and Charles Ray in An Old Fashioned Boy and Voices.
Bright chorus girls perform on the Howard stage in the Grown-Up Babies burlesque. Performers Billie Spellman Eddie Shubert Collette Batiste Little Olga Woods Ruth Spellman Anna Geary George Shelton Harry Howard Violet Karlewyn appear in acts. Mirano brothers perch thriller and Howardscope features Wallace Reid in Always Audacious.
The Arlington Theatre presents St Elmo as a top tier stage attraction earning praise for its cast led by Frances Anderson as the wife and William Shelley Sullivan as the husband. The show follows an atheistic youth whose beliefs reform under emotional influence. Next week Kerry Gow is slated for Boston audiences.
The week at Loew's Orpheum Theatre opens with Zelaya, renowned for music and philosophy, headlining a varied program. Other acts include Robert Henry Hodge and company in Bill EBlither's Lawyer, Maher and Kléredge in I Don't Care, Hall and O'Brien in Frozen Out, and the Parsh eleys in a melodic medley. Elaine Ham merstein appears in Poor Dear Margaret Kirby as the top photoplay attraction, with Dice of Destiny slated for the last half.
A large audience enjoyed the weekly repetition of When Knights Were Bold at the Copley Theatre last evening. The cast from Mr. Jewett's organization with Wingfield Cline Joy Hart Hansell Kingsford Warburton Turner and the Misses Road Ediss Dillon Welliver Cleveland Gaythorne Pitt and Jenkins delivered finished performances. This is the last week of When Knights Were Bold and The Rivals will follow on March 28.
Plymouth Theatre presented Gertie's Garter last evening with Walter Jones and Hazel Dawn delivering unusual performances. Dorothy Mackaye and Lorin Baker also kept busy entertaining the audience in each show.
Charlie Chaplin stars as a foster father in The Kid at Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia last evening. The program also features Goldwyn's The Man Who Had Everything with Jack Pickford, plus news weekly and five acts of vaudeville.
The Goldwyn production of Basil King's drama Earthbound opened its third week at the Majestic Theatre in Boston with rising audience interest in the mystic tale of a personality from the beyond. The film will close its local engagement next Saturday night.
John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln closed its run at the Hollis Street Theatre with the final fortnight starting last evening. To meet demand, two extra matinees are added next week with afternoon shows on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday.
The Central Square Theatre shows The Faith Healer at Gordon's Cambridge Central Square. A new Olympia Weekly comic picture and five vaudeville acts including Louise and Mitchell Marie Russell the Rathburn Four Nick Basil Bert Allen recruit ing and the Roy sisters in Sweet ness complete the bill. A Thursday change adds the film Not Guilty and The Son of Tarzan episode.
A warm reception greeted Sex Against Sex as the Somerville Players staged the drama. Anne Bronaugh led with a creditable performance while Carrol Ashburn scored heavily in the male lead. Next week Mrs Murphy will be shown with Gracie Emmett in the principal role.
Yesterday at the Lancaster Theatre featured Thomas Meighan in The Frontier of the Stars and Justine Johnstone in The Plaything of Broadway on the same bill. A Thursday change will bring Winston Churchill Inside of the Cup and Wanda Hawley in The Snob to the program.
Prosperity and romance follow William Courtenay and Lola Fisher in the comedy Honors Are Even now in its 12th week at Selwyns Park Square Theatre. Audiences continue to acclaim it as one of the season’s best comedies.
A compiled list shows pairs from various addresses and occupations seeking marriage licenses. Entries include William J. Romain and Lena L. LaRiviere in Boston areas, plus numerous others tied to South Boston Dorchester and surrounding locales, with occupations from baker to chauffeur and mill worker.
A long list enumerates pairs of workers and their partners, with occupations and street addresses in Cambridge, Brighton, South Boston, Newtonville, Mattapan, Roxbury, East Boston, Sharon, Dorchester, Hyde Park, and other nearby locales. Included are watchmen, nurses, clerks, salespeople, stenographers, and other trades, with many at immigration stations or hospitals.
Cambridge and Boston individuals including Temple E Stewart machinist 28 Magnolia St Boston and J J Farrington chauffeur 90 Chandler St Boston listed with spouses or households. Mentions Norah Sammon at 43 Allston St Cambridge and Hery Hamilton machinist 122 Fairmont Ave Boston with Winnie Davis at 36 Richdale Ave Cambridge. Includes Mayor A Shattuck student James Smith Hall Cambridge and Jessie Ridge teacher 586 Highland Ave Boston. Also Jeremiah Buda laborer 39 Foster St Cambridge and Rose Samale factory operative 16 Bradbury St Cambridge. Erwin L Werthamer machinist 23 Wright St Cambridge and Elizabeth Bischoff 190 Normandie St Dorchester. Joseph M Lynch physician 12 Ramsey St Dorchester and Florence M Sullivan clerk 21 Granville Rd Cambridge.
A critical remark notes that while societies focus on penitentiary inmates, they should also attend to individuals who deserve confinement. The quote advocates broader public interest in justice and crime prevention.
An old newspaper snippet touts four ounces of liquid argon as a nightly scalp treatment to dissolve and destroy dandruff. It claims itching will cease, hair improves, and the remedy is inexpensive and widely available at rug stores.
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