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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1917
Page
15
A reader urges saving for the Red Cross by cutting Christmas presents while noting potential harms to merchants and workers. Letters from Loyal to Santa Claus and Common Sense discuss balance between thrift and supporting those who sell gifts.
A light verse about smiles outshining medicine and sneers. It urges cheerful persistence to win admiration and fears. The playful quatrains celebrate a confident grin reducing woes and fooling doubters.
The Melting of Molly adaptated by Maria Thompson Davis stirs New York theatregoers at Plymouth Theatre with Alma Tell in a witty performance. James L. Crane plays the amiable doctor while George F. Trimble lumbers as the obese suitor in a brisk farce about Molly Carter’s romance and weight loss.
Nellie Fillmore performs a colored servant and the cast includes Harry Davenport Evelyn Duncan Maude Turner Gordon Gladys Wilson Freeman Gladwin and Jeanette Horton in a lively show that provokes intelligent laughter and is capably presented throughout.
Joseph Lee was re elected president of the Massachusetts Civic League at a meeting on 3 Joy Street. The session featured an address by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard on industry and citizenship with remarks by Herbert C. Parsons and Edward M. Hartman. Officers named include Edward Cummings and Parsons as vice presidents and Lawrence G. Brooks as treasurer. A governing committee was also chosen with members Francis Bardwell Jeffrey R Brackett C C Carsteins George D Chamberlain Helen Cheever Caroline J Cook Elmer S Forbes Edith M Howes Harry Levi Mrs William H Lothrop J Prentice Murphy Cornelius A Parker William H Pear Mrs George T Rice Annette P Rogers the Rev Michael J Scanlan Reginald Heber Smith Frank V Thompson and James F Wise.
Lewis A. Crossett of Boston, member of the committee sent to France by the M C A to investigate conditions along the firing line, addressed the Boston Congregational Club at Ford Hall last night, recounting his experiences at the front since his return.
The oldest inhabitant recalls Nov 27 histories of Boston weather with record lows from 11 to 27 degrees, noting 1896 72 degree warmth and no rain or snow on the date in the last decade.
Dr Charles W Eliot president emeritus of Harvard told the National Federation of Religious Liberals in Channing Hall that the nation plans to join a league to enforce peace after the war and thus must maintain a large army. He argued democracy speeds up through action and called for teaching hygiene in every school nationwide. He noted wartime changes include broader social instruction and the need to address social disease through universal education.
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