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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
6
Assistant District Attorney Henry Fielding found a double set of Embossograph Products Company books while preparing to submit affairs to the grand jury. One book allegedly showed false accounts receivable to obtain loans totaling $150,000 from local banks.
President Wilson, a circus devotee, reviewed the season’s opening parade from the East portico with Mrs. Wilson nearby. He laughed at clown antics and repeatedly tipped his cap to greetings from circus folk.
Henry LaVarre Jayne lawyer and reform leader died at age 63 in Philadelphia. He served as an officer of the American Philosophical Society and as president of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. In 1893 he married Elizabeth Matthews, whose brother Nathan Matthews was four times Mayor of Boston.
George M. Cohan presented the new Tremont Theatre piece Mary last night. Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel wrote the book and lyrics with Lou Hirsch providing the score. Audience filled the house to capacity, many unable to obtain seats, and the Brock front conveyed the Cohanesque vivacity throughout the performance.
A Kansas girl Mary becomes social secretary to Mrs Keen and falls for her son Jack. He seeks fortune with portable houses, strikes oil, and chooses Mary over a wealthy widow. Janet Velie leads a lively cast with vibrant dance numbers and comic support from Georgia Cain and Charles Judels in this charming if music driven piece.
Booth Tarkington's Seventeen story The Other Things of Life will be printed in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The feature highlights Tarkington's popular serial and adds anticipation for readers.
Esta Mae Barr presents The Chosen King a biblical pageant on Solomon with 1000 performers at the Boston Opera House as part of the Salvation Army home service drive. Lloyd G del Castillo composed incidental music Lucille Perry Hall directed dances. Cast includes Helen St Leger Murphy Ethel May Eagileston Edith Porter Berta Barggiotti Zabelle Panosian and W S Cowlishaw Jetson Ryder Irving N Doe T E P Wilson H Harding Hale with Handel and Haydn Society voices.
The Schubert Chorus the People's Choral Union and many Boston church choirs join under Emil Mollenhauer and E N L Afric an to stage The Chosen King. Salvation Army women run the production with committees led by Mrs Nathaniel Emmans and Mrs Marie Dewing Faelion.
Mr Mantell and company begin the second and final week at Hollis Street Theatre with a Julius Caesar revival as Brutus. The production features notable new scenery inspired by Paris Theatre Antoine, enhancing the Forum and Brutus garden scenes and elevating the overall dramatic impact.
Mantell delivers a superb Brutus rivaling previous triumphs and shows the conspirator’s loyalty to country over personal enmity. The performance, praised as an education in character acting, marks another high plane in his Caesar cycle.
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