Friday, January 13, 1922

Pleasant, cool, clear day. Arose 8 A.M. Out on business most of day. Hard going for automobiles. Stuck twice. Supper. Watched church league bowl. To Strand with Russell & Merlin. Talked. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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Since it snowed all day on Wednesday, and with temperatures "cool" on Thursday and Friday, no doubt there was still quite a bit of snow on the roads. Stanford's comment that travel was "hard going for automobiles" is echoed in the below editorial, published in the January 10, 1922 edition of the Schenectady Gazette.

As the article notes, in previous years, automobiles were put away for the winter because the roads were often impassable. But the increasing use of cars meant that roads had to be cleared. But as is apparent from Stanford's comment, the roads were not kept as open as the writer of this editorial presumes.
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Stanford doesn't tell what he and his friends saw at the Strand movie theater, but the Wednesday Schenectady Gazette showed that the silent film Uncharted Seas, starring Rudolph Valentino, was to be playing on Thursday-Saturday. Below is the ad:

I was unfamiliar with this movie, so I looked it up. The following information comes from the website allmovie.com. The synopsis was written by Janiss Garza.

Uncharted Seas (1921) - While he was working as a supporting character in this film, Rudolph Valentino had no idea that stardom was imminent. Alice Lake stars here as Lucretia Eastman, who is married to Tom, a drunken womanizer (Carl Gerard). Lucretia's attempts to reform him are futile, and finally she turns to explorer Frank Underwood (Valentino), who has always loved her. Tom's father, Old Jim Eastman (Charles Mailes), gives him one last chance to straighten up by sending him on a trek to the frozen North to locate a treasure ship. Lucretia accompanies him, but his cowardice disgusts her. They run into Underwood, who is on the same mission. Eastman goes home, while Lucretia continues on with Underwood. Eastman claims that Lucretia has been unfaithful and divorces her. She and Underwood hold back their passion, even though they wind up locked in the ice with the ship for several months. They struggle to make it back home and discover that they are now free to legally unite.