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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1921
Page
38
Customers' brokers loans quoted at 7 percent and outside brokers' quick call at 7 percent. Individual customers' loans range from 7 to 8 percent. Customers' commercial loans at 7 percent. Year money loans at 7 to 8 percent. Listed at the Clearing House.
The market closed lower amid weak industrials and mixed motor stocks while weather boosts sectors. U S Steel and steel makers slid as capacity use remained low. Rail stocks fell, Germany's Silesia plebiscite news stirred bullish sentiment. Experts see growing foreign trade needs and possible government aid. Hoover era trade plans and credit shifts loom as U S Smelting meets to discuss dividends. International deals with England Turkey Ukraine Poland and potential Japan talks signal improving but cautious outlook. A bond house partner predicts possible repayment of Russian external loans.
A dense price listing for eggs, butter, cheese, flour, beans, meats, and produce shows current quotes from various regions. Items include butter extras and firsts, dairy terms, beef sides and cows, flour types with weights, cornmeal, oats, and hay prices, alongside poultry and fresh vegetables with per unit or per hundred weights. Many entries specify regional sources such as New York, Michigan, California, and Pacific shipments, with miscellaneous grade descriptors and price ranges.
Bethlehem New York March 21 gross sales and earnings for 1920 totaled 274431236 a drop of 7210671. Net earnings reached 36351554 down 1069665 and net income 14458836 or 5.27 percent lower by 898025. End of year orders stood at 168295328 versus 204118387 in 1919 and 559364041 in 1917. New construction orders expected to keep shipbuilding plants busy this year.
A dense OCR fragment lists bond prices and yields across many U.S. issuers and currencies, including Powers, Cuban Am Sugar, West Ind, Peoria & Est, and Union Pacific. The item resembles a historical financial page with numerous 4s and 5s rubrics, dates, and series notes, lacking coherent narrative. Entities include City of Ber, Cuban Am Sugar, Peoria & Est, West Maryland, and Union Pacific.
Lawrence police and Lowell authorities reengage the search for Michael J. Gardner of Lowell on capias warrants after he vanished in court. He faces indictments for larcenies from Esther Barlow and Franz Schneider jewelers from 1918. Bail set at 4000, fugitive now pursued by both forces.
Marie Nordstrom brings Tick Tock a lively mix of songs dances and sketches aided by Frances Nordstrom and seven pretty girls William Rock presents seven dancers in a polished revue with acts from the Wilbur Theatre. The O\\'Mearns Tim and Kitty whirl dance act Hudson Ray adds spark Jim McWilliams the pianist delivers jokes and songs George Watts Belle Hawley Wilbur Swetman Kara and the Rial duo perform acts with Kinograms and Topics of the Day all wrapping a bustling Keith\\'s program
Augustus Thomas's Colorado photodrama heads the week at Modern and Beacon Theatres with Frank Mayo in a starring role. Wanda Hawley follows in The Outside Woman a clever domestic comedy about a wife who loves selling to the junk man. The bill closes with Hard Luck featuring Buster Keaton, the rising giggle getter.
At Wal dron's Casino this week The Sporting Widows delivers a new production. Proprietors Jacobs and Jermon retain Al K Hall a top comedian 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 coterie of jolly people whose mission is to make the world happy.
The Back Bay theatre offers a three star programme featuring Madonnas and Men as the headliner. Buster Keaton in Hard Luck and five acts of vaudeville plus Pathe News and screen snapshots round out the bill with Hector's St. James Orchestra providing special music. Tom Mix appears Thursday in The Road Demon Velvet Wings No 18.
The Boston Theatre presents Black Beauty the screen version of Anna Sewell s classic as the headliner. Also on the vaudeville bill are Charles and Madeline Dunbar in animal fynology the Rovenberg sisters and Sime Neary in a new revue Frank Farren in Come on Red Bert Rome and Betty Wagner in Come on Red the Carpos brothers musical acrobats Buster Keaton in a new comedy and exclusive Kino grams and topics of the day.
Bowdoin Square Theatre presents a strong bill headlined by Cecil B. DeMille’s Something to Think About with Gloria Swanson Elliott Dexter Monte Blue and Theodore Roberts. Also shown The Eternal Light a life of Christ. Buster Keaton Hard Luck and The Son of Tarzan draw interest. Vaudeville includes Camille trio George and White Morse sisters and Lillian Ray. New cards March 28 Heliotrope and Midsummer Madness to follow.
Automobiles replace horses in many ways yet fail to dull emotion as Black Beauty draws crowds at the National Theatre. Jean Paige as Jessie captivates alongside Ginger, with Just a Wife and The Woman God Sent as week features. Vaudeville includes Anderson and Graves and several acts.
The Old South Theatre presents Habit featuring Mildred Harris as Irene. A New York importer scene shows latest fashions before Irene’s father reveals his business troubles. She reproaches him then, trips unconscious, and dreams a sequence of events. Arthur J. Martel provides organ music and the program includes news weekly and a comic picture.
Next Monday evening marks Efrem Zimbalist’s debut as a composer in Boston as Joe Weber presents the musical comedy Honeydew. The score by Zimbalist, with Joseph Herbert as librettist, uses the original New York cast. The lineup includes Hal Forde Sam Ash Theresa Maxwell Conover Dorothy Follis Frank Gill Mile Marguerite Etheline Terry John Park John Dunsmore Marie Hall and a chorus contingent.
Sam Cohen's amateurs appear on Monday at Loew's Columbia Theatre augmenting the bill for the first half of the week. The program includes four vaudeville acts, Wallace Reid in Always Audacious, Mme Nazimova in The Heart of a Child, a new comedy, and latest news events. For the closing three days new vaudeville attractions and Charles Ray in An Old-Fashioned Boy and Voices will be shown.
Otis Skinner stars in Kismet at Gordon's Olympia Theatre with popular prices. Skinner has repeatedly played Hajj on stage for three seasons, while Hamilton Revelle appears in the film as Mansur. Rosemary Theby and Elinor Fair deliver strong roles as Kut al Kulb and Marsinah, with newsreels, a new comedy short, and five acts of vaudeville rounding out the program.
Bright chorus girls opened a merry burlesque at the Howard yesterday with Billie Spellman and Eddie Shubert adding merriment in the comedy. Collette Batiste Little Olga Woods Ruth Spellman Anna Geary George Shelton Harry Howard and Violet Karlewyn appeared prominently in scenes. The Mirano brothers offered a sensational perch thriller and Howard and Craddock and McGrath and Deeds were in the bill. Wallace Reid starred in Always Audacious a thriller of entertaining type via The Howardscope.
The Arlington Theatre presents St Elmo this week, a stage adaptation praised for strong performances. Frances Anderson shines as the wife influencing her husband's awakening, with William Shelley Sullivan as the husband and Willard Dashiel delivering solid work. The company is expanding its local following as Kerry Gow is slated for next week after a long absence.
Zelaya leads the initial half program at Loew's Orpheum Thea tre with music and philosophy. Robert Henry Hodge and company present Bill Blither's Lawyer alongside Maher and Eldredge in I Don't Care. Hall and O'Brien perform Frozen Out, the Parsh eleys offer a melodic mix, and Keno Keyes and Melrose present That Fellow Don't Like Me. Elaine Ham merstein stars in Poor Dear Margaret Kirby, about a butterfly wife rising from financial straits with old associates still calling her Poor Dear Margaret Kirby. The last half features H B Warner in Dice of Destiny.
Last week of the comedy at Copley Theatre drew a large amused audience. Cast included Wingfield, Cifne, Joy, Hart, Hansell, Kingsford, Warburton, Turner and the Roads and Ediss, Dillon, Welliver, Cleveland, Gaythorne, Pitt, Jenkins. The Rivals to open March 23.
Gertie's Garter continues at the Plymouth Theatre as Walter Jones and Hazel Dawn entertain with unusual talents. Dorothy Mackaye and Lorin Baker are also featured in lively performances, keeping audiences amused last evening.
Charlie Chaplin returns to Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia in The Kid as a foster father to a boy delivering humorous and ludicrous comedy. Also shown are Goldwyn's The Man Who Had Everything with Jack Pickford, plus news weekly and five vaudeville acts.
The Griffith picturization of Way Down East continues its long run at Tremont Temple Boston. Yesterday marked the 316th performance with Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in heroic roles and a Griffith tuned score featuring selected symphony players.
The Goldwyn production of Basil King's Earthbound opened its third Boston week at the Majestic Theatre with growing interest in the mystic tale about a personality in the beyond. The engagement ends next Saturday night.
David Belasco’s comedy Call the Doctor began its second week at Tremont Theatre last evening with a notable cast led by Janet Beecher Charlotte Walker Philip Merivale Fania Marinoff Jane Houston William Morris and Mrs. Tom Wise.
George White's Scandals of 1920 entered its second week at the Colonial Theatre last evening. The fast moving musical revue kept steady pace with constant performances by a lineup of headline artists. Ann Pennington appeared as charming as ever with numerous moments to shine.
Anita Stewart stars in Harriet and the Piper for a three day engagement at Gordon's Strand Theatre. Other acts include Will Rogers in Honest Hutch Buster Keaton in The Haunted House and the Strand Weekly. A Thursday change adds Mr and Mrs Carter De Haven in Twin Beds.
Today and Wednesday at Exeter Street Theatre a strong bill features James Oliver Curwood's Isobel and Alice Lake in The Greater Claim, Harold Lloyd in Number, Please. The second half of the week shows Alice Brady in Out of the Chorus and an Allan Dwan special The Perfect Crime.
John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln opened the final fortnight of its Hollis Street Theatre engagement last night. To meet demand for seats, two extra matinees will be added next week with afternoon performances scheduled Wednesday through Saturday.
The Cambridge Central Square Theatre presents The Faith Healer at Gordon's with Olympia Weekly new comic picture and five vaudeville acts led by Louise and Mitchell Marie Russell the Rathburn Four Nick Basil and Bert Allen in Recruiting and the Roy sisters in Sweet ness The bill notes a Thursday change with the film Not Guilty and the latest episode of The Son of Tarzan.
The Somerville Players drew a gratifying reception yesterday with Sex Against Sex. Anne Bronaugh led in a creditable performance, Carrol Ashburn turned in a strong male role. Next week Mrs Murphy will be staged with Gracie Emmett in the lead.
The Fenway Theatre opens the week with Paying the Piper and short subjects featuring Miss Drew and Miss Davidson. On Thursday Fatty Arbuckle stars in Brewers Millions and Alice Joyce appears in Cousin Kate for the screening lineup.
Yesterday at the Lancaster audiences saw Thomas Meighan in The Frontier of the Stars and Justine Johnstone in The Plaything of Broadway On Thursday a program will include Winston Churchill Inside of the Cup and Wanda Hawley in The Snob Readers may enjoy the shift to new features as the week continues.
Prosperity and the couple William Courtenay and Lola Fisher star in Honors Are Even now in its 12th week at Selwyns Park Square Theatre. The comedy continues to draw crowds and earns praise as one of the season's best.
Numerous entries list fiancé and fiancée pairs across Boston area streets and immigrant stations. Names include William J. Romain and Lena L. LaRiviere. Francis J. Wachenheim and Minna M. Groendaal. Orazio DeLuca and Rose Dandretam. Joseph L. Murphy and Rose E. Driscoll.
Names and occupations of numerous individuals with addresses in Cambridge Brighton South Boston Newtonville Roxbury East Boston Dorchester Hyde Park Sharon and surrounding areas. Includes watchman, nurse, clerk, salesman, pressman, laborer, printer, photographer, clerk, barber, waiter, machinist, fruit dealer, and others with residential details and marital status where shown. The roster appears to be a biographical directory style pairing failed to form households or households with spouses.
A dense OCR style enumeration lists multiple Cambridge and Boston residents, including Joseph M. McGuire and Norah M. Sammon, with occupations from clerk to nurse, and addresses across Cambridge, Boston, Dorchester, and Dorchester area. The roster shows paired individuals at various streets and avenues, reflecting a broad resident directory snapshot.
A sharp remark critiques societies devoted to inmates while urging attention to individuals who deserve imprisonment. The line implies a call for focus on wrongdoing and accountability over sympathy for those confined.
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