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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1919
Page
3
Sergei Rachmaninoff performed his revised concerto for piano and orchestra in D minor with the Boston Symphony. The display by the Russian virtuoso drew a tremendous triumph and an unusually warm, enthusiastic reception from the normally critical audience.
The reviewer criticizes the concerto as long and diffuse with weak development and repetitive ideas, though lauds the piano part and certain characteristic effects. Haydn's Symphony does well, while the Isle of the Dead and broader program receive mixed impressions of orchestration and stage spectacle.
The Washington D C Juvenile Court judge argues children should be reared at home rather than by the State. The article critiques a musical work inspired by Parisian themes including Maurice Ravel, noting its theaterlike effect and movements such as The Princesses Playing with the Golden Apples Berceuse and the Dance of the Princesses.
A Fenway Park football event for Boston Latin High School faced postponement after heavy rain. Fans who traveled to the grounds found gates closed as field conditions remained slippery despite efforts to prepare.
Fitchburg Oct. 31 Baptist campaign aims for 100,000,000 to推动 the denomination in home and foreign fields. Delegates urged financial and spiritual support. Barrett Montgomery urged Baptist women to join men. Rev Frank W Padelford of Boston read appeal. Rev Hugh A Heath and others spoke as delegates adopted the resolution.
Miss Helen O Neill daughter of Mr and Mrs O Neill of 8 G Street East Boston will wed John M Mee overseas navy on Armistice Day at Augustine's Church Dorchester South Boston.
Fearn, 55, a lodger at 40 Chestnut Street, was found unconscious in his room yesterday after his landlady Catherine Mee revealed the incident. He was taken to the Relief Hospital where he was reported to be safe.
A fragmented excerpt urges teaching girls that homemaking is more valuable than outside careers and that boys should praise their mothers home accomplishments. It argues current home life is wrong and mothers are undervalued in society.
Judge Kathryn Sellers, the District of Columbia’s first woman jurist, urged reforms at a luncheon in Ford Hall. She called for a more limited juvenile court with added chancery powers, parental rights in trials, and consent to keeping children with families when possible. She urged finishing eighth grade, adding trades in grades seven and eight, and emphasized employment and recreation alongside morals, praising the Woman’s Bureau and police for handling girls’ issues.
At the 65th annual Middlesex County Teachers Association meeting in Boston, educators urged public education to remain independent and thoroughly American, refusing to lean toward any party amid an imminent industrial conflict.
Middlesex teachers refuse entangling alliance with the American Federation of Labor and vote to affiliate with 87 Massachusetts Teachers' Federation groups to boost pay and school quality. High school and elementary sessions at Tremont Temple and the State House urged adequate pay, with Florence Hale urging unity and protest against low wages. Henry H. Harris of Lowell elected association president. new officers and executive committee named.
S K Ratcliffe will speak at the Brookline Civic Forum meeting tomorrow night in Harvard Church. His topic is America and Britain with remarks on the planned programme for the two powers. Rev Ashley Day Leavitt, pastor of the church, will preside.
The Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters St. Malachi Court No. 81 marked its 28th anniversary with a large dancing party at Robbins Memorial Town Hall Arlington last evening. Town officials and order officers attended with Thomas F. Kenny as committee chairman.
Reading left to right the group includes Henry H. Harris of Lowell as elementary school section chair, M. B. N. Langdon Davies, Margaret T. Maguire principal of General McCall School Philadelphia, John Anthony of Melrose Middlesex County Teachers Association president, and Arthur L. Doe Somerville treasurer.
Frank G. Maloney a wagon man was sentenced to two months in Central Court for heckling Guardsman Robert O Connell The case marks the second use in two days of a 1917 statute aimed at stopping mild interference with policemen The judge deemed the act serious and noted a broader aim to curb heckling officers An appeal was taken.
Five Republican figures who opposed Fred J. Burrell in the state treasurer race now back him. The supporters are Col. Frank S. Perkins of Safe, Sen. Charles L. Gifford of Barnstable, Frederick N. Kerr of Winchester, Rep. Frederick E. Pierce of Greenfield, and Burgess Spinney, former campaign manager for Sen. Gifford.
Benny Gray fled three blocks when Detectives Chaisson and Ferrari chased him in Boston's North End. He claimed to avoid people who know him and gave a fictitious Hast address. He told Judge Bennett he slept in Newton worked in Brookline and visited the West End. four months for idle and disorderly conduct were imposed on appeal.
Manchester New Hampshire October 31 Lieutenant Thomas J Quirk who had accepted the Republican nomination for commissioner of charities after the Democrats nominated him arrived home from an army hospital in New York and refused to accept the GOP endorsement after conferring with Democratic leaders Albert T Barr who won the Republican nomination withdrew in favor of a World War veteran and a telegram from Quirk accepting the GOP nomination was received He then declined to accept the Republican nomination on grounds of misapprehension believing he was nominated without opposition.
Boston bars will temporarily close tonight and stay shut until the bay lifting or Jan 16, despite retail liquor dealers denying the reports. The move follows a drop in patronage since the prohibition act and a weak beer market, with several saloons already closed. James T. Purcell, VP of the dealers, says the meeting focused only on whether to close next Tuesday election day.
Tomorrow opens the third Red Cross roll call to fund war work at home and abroad. Special services will be held in synagogues and churches across metropolitan Boston as the active canvass begins Monday morning. Boston’s quota is 300 000 members and 500 000 in gifts toward a national 15 000 000 goal.
All civilian staff at the Charles Town Navy Yard will get two pounds of sugar weekly. A department card signed by the head of the department and the U.S. seal will identify each worker. Employees must present the ecard and their pass to obtain sugar.
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