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Advocate Archives
Highland Bright, Garbo Banned, From Russia with Love
December 1, 1932
HIGHLAND LIGHT
INCREASED IN BEAM OF POWER
Highland Light has now stepped into the fourth place as strongest light in the United States. With the candlepower increased from 580,000 to 4,500,000 with the introduction of electricity in place of oil, the lighthouse at North Truro has become more important among the many American lighthouses. The three lights having stronger beams than the Highland are at Navesink, N.J., a New York harbor entrance beacon of 9,000,000 candlepower; Hillsboro Inlet, Fla., 5,500,000 candlepower; and at Liston Range, Del., 5,000,000 candlepower.
Highland Light, or Cape Cod Light, as it is sometimes known, was the first lighthouse built on Cape Cod. It was erected in 1798, making it 134 years old. In the older days, worse storms lashed this coast, and hardly a family lived nearby which had not suffered some sad loss from shipwreck.
However, nowadays conditions have greatly improved in this vicinity, so that Cape Cod is losing its nickname “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
The lighthouse is also familiar to autoists. From the time the motorist leaves Wellfleet the arc of light sweeps landward as well as across the sea, sending to the motorist a friendly beam as it warns the mariner.
December 4, 1941
SELECTMEN BAN
NEW GARBO FILM
Showing the new Greta Garbo film, “Two Faced Woman,” scheduled for two days at the Provincetown Theatre with two performances yesterday and as many today, was suddenly stopped by order of the Board of Selectmen just before the first running yesterday afternoon.
A large bulletin shortly after noon appeared over the poster announcing the picture and it stated that the ban of the Selectmen prevented the showing of the picture and that “The Secrets of Lone Wolf” with several shorts would constitute the program. A reduction was also made in the adult admission prices.
Action by the Selectmen followed a protest lodged with them by delegates from the Knights of Columbus and Catholic Daughters, organizations which in a joint meeting the night before voted to ask for the banning of the film. Mrs. Helen Pierce, president of the Catholic Daughters, said that she had not seen the picture and did not think that any members of her organization had seen it. It is also understood that none of the members of the Knights of Columbus had seen the film. Both organizations, however, were moved to action by the views of Archbishop Spellman of New York who termed the picture as immoral and making light of marital bonds.
It was also pointed out that the film had been banned in Providence by Police Censor George W. Cowan, who ruled the film out after it had received a “D” rating by a group of film censors of that city.
Members of the Board of Selectmen when questioned regarding their decision to ban the film admitted that they had not seen the picture nor had they read the script. They said they were basing their action on similar decisions elsewhere and that “there must be something in it.”
December 1, 1960
FAMILY HAPPY TO BE HOME
AFTER EXPULSION FROM RUSSIA
Major Irving T. McDonald, Jr., and his wife and two children spent a short but happy weekend here at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irving T. McDonald of Bradford Street. Arriving in Provincetown Saturday night, he and his family left again early Monday morning for Washington, where he will be assigned to a new post following his expulsion from the Soviet Union last week, where he was serving as assistant air attaché at the American Embassy in Moscow.
While Major McDonald and his family had a Thanksgiving dinner at the embassy in Moscow last Thursday they thoroughly enjoyed their second turkey dinner here Saturday night.
Part of Sunday here was spent in a trip over the dunes to the backshore with the McDonald children, Maureen, 8, and Michael, 4. Michael insisted that he wanted to see the ocean close up — in spite of the fact that they had flown thousands of miles over the ocean. When he got to the edge of the ocean, young Michael announced gleefully to his grandmother, “You know, the ocean chased me.”
[Major McDonald] could offer no reason for being expelled, explaining that he had done nothing contrary to his duties as assistant attaché. He added that he was mighty glad to be back in America and even more so, he explained to his father, when on a walk down town here Sunday morning he was greeted by so many friendly, smiling faces and was no longer conscious of tensions all the time.
A telephone call from Washington to Major McDonald Monday morning before leaving led him to believe that he would be assigned to a post in the nation’s capital.
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Mounts Ararat and Gilboa, Provincetown’s large dunes
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Dec 1st, 2005