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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1922
Page
11
Central Court heard a case arising from a drug squad raid at a doorway near 482 Columbus Avenue involving alleged delivery of narcotics to another person. Details about participants and outcomes were not provided.
Houdini star of The Man From Beyond shown at Bowdoin Square Theatre with Niagara Falls rescue scene. Houdini appears in person Thursday to discuss his film career. Mystic Clayton offers daily crystal seances with a ladies only reading Friday. Dustin Farnum in The Yosemite Trail and Ruth Roland in The Timber Queen also featured. Vaudeville adds George Scheck and team, Chief Blue Cloud, and Charles Sweet. Bargain night Friday brings extra acts.
Mrs Abigail J McGowan widow of James G McGowan former advertising manager of the Boston Post died at St Elizabeths Hospital Brighton from a broken spine suffered when she fell nine feet from her back porch at 58 North Beacon Street Brighton Funeral arrangements to be announced at the Dorchester residence of her sister Mrs John F Morse 7 Bicknell Street She leaves two daughters Mary E McGowan Gail McGowan and a son James McGowan plus four sisters and two brothers. a Globe editor was among the survivors.
The Winter Garden show Spice of 1922 played to a full Boston Opera House crowd last night with the auditorium filled and many attendees left outside unable to secure seats. The strong advance publicity had clearly paid off as the performance drew widespread public interest.
A Shubert style revue features continuous action and lavish settings. Sam Hearn plays the Hick character while Eve Beatrice Squire and Adam perform, with Beatrice Squire in true Eve attire. Dancers, comediennes Valeska Surratt and Florence Browne shine as Marie Nordstrom Georgie Price also perform. The show runs three weeks and offers high order music and artistic design.
Allan Monkhouse comedy shows a retired father trying to keep up with his kids by hosting bohemian guests. The plot follows his romantic flirtations and misguided business ventures leading to a moral ending. E. E. Cleve, Walter Kingsford, and Jessamine Newcombe deliver notable performances.
Four year old Julia Parquaska of 4 River street Lynn died after her clothing caught fire while playing with matches in the yard. Two men who ran to help her suffered burns on their hands as they helped extinguish the flames near her home steps.
Pat Rooney reappeared at Keith's last evening entertaining Bostonians with a half hour act. He was backed by Marion Bent Ted and Kathryn Andrews as dancers and a compact jazz ensemble. Nora Cunneen laughed at Barrett's old man with young ideas while Edna Aug and company performed Day Dreams. Jack Joyce wowed with a one legged dance and several other acts included Jennifer Bros Charlotte Lansing Johnny Johnston Leo Hayes and Davis and Pelle.
The Majestic presents Spice of Life a Shubert tale show with eight vaudeville numbers and nine scenes. Rita Bell Ray Greene Irene Delroy and the Wainwright sisters headline lively vocal performances with dance by the Twelve London Tivol Girls. Chanteuse Julia Kelety and comic turns from Tom Hickey Ed Hickey and others amplify the revue.
The Railroad Labor Board granted about 2000 yardmasters on Class 1 railroads and six switching terminals an eight hour day with overtime, a near 25 percent pay rise. This marks the board’s first set of rules and working conditions for wartime subordinate officials under the Transportation Act.
Special Officer Allen Wilson of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation was promoted to detective sergeant at the Brookline Board of Selectmen meeting. He headed a long list of promotions, while Patrolman Joseph J. O Connell Jr. was promoted to sergeant to fill a uniform unit vacancy.
Miles apart the wealthy Charles Garland a socialist and free lover sails for France with his wife and children gone from his home. Doris Benson the agriculturist and a chaperone join them in an isolated chicken-house residence as police consider possible inquiry into the Garland commune amid local skepticism.
Governor Edward I. Edwards, a Volstead era reformer, jokes during a campaign stop that his flushed appearance is not from golf. He invites voters to inspect his face and then challenge Senator Frelinghuysen to similar scrutiny, urging them to ignore golf as the origin.
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