Boston Elevated Fares Seen At Hearing Opposition
City Solicitor Boutwell of Malden opposed the reduced fare plan at a hearing before the State Public Utilities Commission. Somerville urged sticking to a five cent fare under a long term contract while Malden opposed the Curley plan citing a seven dollar tax hike. Alien population in the United States grew by 69 892 in the nine months ending April 1.
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State Public Utilities Commission
Somerville
United States
Jackie Coogan In Boston Pictorial at Gordon's Theatre
Screen Gossip reports Jackie Coogan visiting Gordon's Washington Street Olympia Theatre in Boston this week. He stars in Trouble as a pathetic orphan boy with canine co star Queenie, delivering tears and laughs for a family audience. His latest release Oliver Twist is described as his best work yet. He is working on an original story Fiddle and I and enjoys golf with custom clubs and a toy car. a governess teaches him his three Rs daily including Saturdays.
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Alice Lake Stars in Chicago Sal with Milton Sills
Alice Lake plays the title role in Chicago Sal produced by Irving Cummings for Principal Pictures Corp. Milton Sills is the leading man and Richard Headrick also appears in the cast.
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Alice Lake
Chicago
Irving Cummings
Principal Pictures Corp
Milton Sills
Little Richard Headrick
William Fox Returns From Europe Aboard Berengeria
Fox Film Corporation president William Fox returns from three months in Europe aboard the Berengeria. He traveled for both pleasure and business and visited Italy and Palestine where the screen production The Shepherd King was filmed.
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Fox Film Corporation
Europe
Fox
Italy
Palestine
Advice From Experts on Writing Screen Scenarios
A columnist quotes Miss June Mathis and Walter Woods of Paramount offering guidance for aspiring screenwriters. Mathis urges individuality and style while Woods advises publishing magazine stories first to prove ability before selling a script.
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Paramount Productions
Walter Woods
Paramount Forces
Lila Lee Rumored Romances Stir Paramount Stars
Old dame rumors swirl around Lila Lee in Hollywood as gossip links her to Charlie Chaplin and James Kirkwood while she denies engagements. Tommy Meighan co-stars in Back Home and Broke and the press stays mum on romance angles.
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Paramount
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James Kirkwood
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Abbey Turned Into Movie Theatre for One Night
For the first time a church building became a film venue as Norma Talmadge's The motion picture was shown at the St Paul Convent on West 61st street New York last Thursday night despite the church’s status as an abbey and the cinema novelty.
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West 61St Street
New York
Norma Talmadge
Actress Miss Talmadge In Convent Themed Film Screened
Sister Thomasina of St. Pauls invited sixty sisters to view Miss Talmadge's portrayal of a noblewoman who forsakes court splendor to seek peace in a cloister. First National Pictures supplied the machine booth and silver screen for the showing.
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Thomasina
Valentino contract dispute clouds future in film
Snowball Somerville reports Rodolph Valentino faces an uncertain future as he resists Paramount Pictures alleging contract breach while the Ma mous Kaers Lasky Company has secured an injunction barring him from acting for any rival studio. An inquiry to Fox in Boston seeks news reel showings from the Brookline Country Club golf championship. The Boston Post advises readers to apply in person to studios for motion picture work, noting New York as a nearby option.
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Mass
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Paramount Pictures
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Boston
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Brookline Country Club
Deputy Hall Likely To Remain On Job
City Hall and police headquarters show Deputy Superintendent Hall of the Boston police department likely to stay in post. Healthy and efficient, he remains favored by Mayor Curley and seen as a top officer from patrolman to deputy superintendent. The article notes the R. M. S. Homeric liner at 777 feet.
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City Hall
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Boston Police Department
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Mayor Curley creates special city coal bureau in Boston
The Boston fire and city administration will fund a special coal bureau with a 10000 appropriation from the reserve fund to advise consumers on bituminous coal usage. The bureau will survey local dealers and root out profiteers during the coal shortage and may distribute purchased soft coal through city departments.
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Boston
Curley
Republicans Set Night Before Dinner at Hotel Brunswick
The Republican Club of Massachusetts plans a night before gathering at Hotel Brunswick with a dinner and a post dinner reception. Vice President Coolidge will preside over the State convention in Symphony Hall the next day with Governor Cox Lieutenant Governor Fuller and Senator Lodge among guests. President George A Rich will preside at the dinner.
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Republican State Committee
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Fuller
Senator Lodge
George A. Rich
Allen Named Chairman of Resolutions Committee
Frank G. Allen, president of the Massachusetts Senate, selected as chairman of the committee on resolutions at the State convention.
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Frank G. Allen
Massachusetts Senate
The Tenth Mrs Tulkinson Revealed In Butler Satire
Ellis Parker Butler, author of Pigs Is Pigs, shares sharp thoughts on marriage in The Tenth Mrs Tulkinson, a complete piece to appear in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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Mrs. Tulkinton
Boston Sunday Post
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