Datebook 1923: Monday, April 23, 1923

Cool and overcast. Some rain. Arose 6:30 A.M. Breakfast & Devotions. Greek seance with H.H. & Chadwick for Hebrews. Class in Hebrews 10-11:30 A.M. Dinner. Worked 12 M - 2 P.M. Class & chapel. Talked etc. To Supper. Studied. H.H. & I to Tremont Temple to see "Hunting Big Game in Africa." Studied. To bed 12:30 P.M. Thankful for mental powers.

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Hunting Big Game in Africa was a documentary film released in December 1922. Below is a picture of a poster for the movie. According to IMDB,

This father (H.A. Snow) and son (Sidney Snow) documentary filmmaking team were inspirations for the character of Carl Denham in King Kong (1933).

taken from IMDB

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, cousin, nephew and friend. This is the fifth installment of Date Book, covering 1923 (the first four cover 1919-1922). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1923 to January 1, 2017, 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 is living in Boston, attending Boston University School of Theology, 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 1923

Monday, April 23, 1923

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