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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1922
Page
17
More than $1,000,000 worth of United States army surplus goods were auctioned at a South Boston base yesterday. About 100 buyers bid on items ranging from trumpets and blankets to tents, saddle equipment, medicines, and hand grenades. The sale, sourced largely from Camp Devens after the citizens' training camps, continues until all surplus is sold.
On National Navy Day Oct 27 no Navy Day observance will be held by the local Navy Relief Society at Charlestown Navy Yard on Oct 12.
Delays securing discharging berths for England bound coal carriers in port cause financial losses to charters. Shipments from the other side have largely ceased, with congestion from recent arrivals not worsening. Some steamers rerouted to Providerste to ease the strain while unloading continues at several docks despite non coal built ships slowing the process. The French Maru waited 144 days in stream, piling four days of demurrage. The latch steamer Hagne, after quarantine, berthed at Pier 4 and unloads coal into cars off Atlantic Avenue as onlookers watch trains take full cars away. Women in Inverness played football in the 19th century, wives versus spinsters while men observed.
Jane Jennings shifts from writing to acting and mother roles in Vitagraph films. She appears in The Lion and the Mouse and The Case of Becky with Glenn Hunter and Constance Binney, and joins Mae Murray in The Gilded Lily Peacock Alley Fascination and Broadway Rose. Valentino’s contract dispute with Lasky remains unresolved as he may return to The Spanish Cavalier. Duchie and Lila Lee join Thomas Meighan at Famous Players Long Island studio. Miles Welch and Elaine Hammerstein are at Selznick in Hollywood. Amateur scripts are rarely accepted by comedy producers who hire seasoned writers. PRUNELLA HALL Boston Post.
D W Griffith brings The Haunted House to Boston for its first real showing at Tremont Temple on Monday night October. An earlier Derby Connecticut try out used 14 reels which have been cut and re edited for this premiere.
Myrtle Stedman and her son Lincoln co star in The Pengaroie Age a Louis B Mayer First National release directed by John M Stahl Lincoln plays an ardent awkward suitor for Edith Roberts while Stedman portrays a New York society leader A separate showing of Forget Me Not a Metro Burston production delighted clergy and orphanage delegates at Loews State Theatre on Wednesday morning The Forget Me Not follows motherless fatherless and homeless children finding homes Bessie Love and Gareth Hughes are praised for portraying the waif and her boy
Charles Buck Jones begins The Footlight Ranger at Fox West Coast. Jerome Storm to direct John Gilbert project. A $1000 prize offered by Fox for best title for A Little Child Shall Lead Them after it opened Tremont Temple and showed at Lyric Theatre New York. The title misled audiences as a Biblical tale. the film is a modern society drama.
Barbara La Marr and Gaston Glass are chosen for the leading roles in B. P. Schulberg's production of the Gilbert Emery play The Hero. Louis Gasnier will direct the film adaptation.
An admirer from Haverhill notes John Gilbert in the title role of the Count of Monte Cristo. He is a Fox star making pictures at Fox Studios in Hollywood. He has just completed St. Elmo and Laurea Huff is not yet before the camera. text mentions pres et ON married and Edward Sthl.
Mildred Harris Chaplin, ex wife of Charlie Chaplin, sees her vaudeville act crippled as trunks wardrobe and salary are attached by Chicago agent J W Rubenstein for a $1850 claim. She risks canceling appearances or performing in limited costume until release papers are obtained.
Theatre actors will perform at the Apollo Theatre in New York to raise money against prohibition. Daniel Frohman says artists lend their support to the public movement for the first time. cast includes Lionel Atwill Frank Tinney Ernest Ball Will Morrissey Eva Clarke Edna Morn and Frankie Heath.
Prof Elihu Thomson told the Illuminating Engineering Society that swatting is not scientific and proposed slicing a fly with a table knife to exploit its mosaic eye. He warned a bite of ice cream may come from the same source as electricity in time. Officers and directors were elected for the ensuing year including Ward, Crampton, Harries, Johnson, Drisko, Feiker, Regar, Hibben, Marks and several directors.
Three men were injured last night in two Lexington area crashes and rushed to Symmes Hospital Arlington. Eugene M. Barry of Cambridge suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries after colliding with a Medford driver’s car. Gerald E. Haggerty of Somerville sustained severe cuts and a fractured arm as a rear passenger. Morris Sk. Coleman of Bedford had a crushed chest and head wounds after crashing to avoid a pedestrian and hitting a hydrant and tree.
The resolutions committee of the Democratic State convention in Bay City Michigan announced there would be no endorsement for Henry Ford at this time. The proposal was rejected as premature and too far in advance of the 1924 election.
Washington September 28 The National Catholic Welfare Council was authorized by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church to continue and intensify activities that have yielded the greatest good in the past year Archbishops Hanna and Curley announced at the close of the hierarchy meeting Reports on each department showed notable social service and educational achievements The hierarchy said the welfare council is its representative in carrying out educational social and related policy for the Catholic people of America
Mrs. Henry Bushman died after rushing into a flaming barn to save a horse. She guided the animal to safety through smoke but her clothing caught fire and she could not extinguish the flames. The tragedy occurred in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the event was reported by United News.
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