Datebook 1922: Friday, February 24, 1922

Beautiful and bright but cool. Arose 9 A.M. Out to Breakfast. Back. To classes 10:30 to 12:30. Wrote letter home. To dinner at Arlington. Tried for symphony. Thru Christian Science church. Over to Cambridge. Called on Ed. Snell, Bryan Carpenter. Looked around Harvard. Supper at Arlington. To see "The Green Goddess." Ate, home. To bed 12 P.M.

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I'm starting to wonder what Arlington means on this trip. Is it where Hanford lives? Not sure.

The Green Goddess was a stage play by William Archer, first produced in 1921 in England. Here is a website that tells much more about the history of this play which later became a silent, then talking film. Stanford doesn't say where he saw the drama.

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband, son and friend. This is the fourth installment of Date Book, covering 1922 (the first three cover 1919-1921). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1922 to January 1, 2016, for instance--with one entry per day.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford.

And this year, because Stanford moves to Boston when he starts his graduate program at Boston University, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these annotations, I hope to convey a sense of Stanford's life and times. And of course, I'm also hoping to give his descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1922

Friday, February 24, 1922

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