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Advocate Archives
First Movie, Long Bows, First Blessing
June 25, 1931
LICENSE GRANTED FOR SUNDAY MOVIES
After a public hearing before the Selectmen Saturday afternoon a license was granted to the Provincetown Theatre to show pictures Sunday nights. The hearing was held as the result of a petition drawn up by the proprietors of the Theatre which over five hundred residents had signed.
The license granted by the Selectmen must also be signed by the State Department of Public Safety, and the picture to be shown, approved by this department. This necessitates a blank, listing the program to be shown Sunday nights, being forwarded to the Department each week for its approval and signature.
At the hearing Saturday afternoon, the only objection to Sunday Movies was that the operating machine at the Theatre caused radio disturbances, and that people owning radios in that vicinity should have at least one night in the week free from that interference. The management promised to take care of this matter if the license were given.
Steps will also be taken to keep people from loitering on the sidewalk opposite the Theatre on Sunday and other nights.
The first Sunday talkie is scheduled to be shown this Sunday the 28th.
June 20, 1940
STRONG MEN PULL LONG BOWS AT CLUB
Archery — ancient art and sport of bow and arrow — will be one of the new attractions at the East End Club this summer for those who go for games a bit more quiet and strenuous than tennis, according to Lauren Cook, manager of the Club, who has added several fine long bows, a quantity of arrows, and a target, as well as other necessary equipment for use of those who want to take up the sport.
Several have already gone in for archery. Tex Slade, “Tiny” Rivard, Churchill Smith and Eph Rivard, turning from a winter of badminton, are to be seen pulling their long bows on the East End Club range, described by Mr. Cook as a “sylvan dell surrounded by whispering pines.” Strong man Eph Rivard scorns the bows used by the weak and effete and had Anthony Souza of Pearl Street make a special bow of lemon wood, according to the specifications used by Robin Hood, except that it has a 75 pound pull instead of the mere 70 pound pull used by the late Mr. Hood.
June 24, 1948
BISHOP CASSIDY WILL BLESS FLEET IN COLORFUL CEREMONY
Favorable weather is all that will be needed to make the first blessing of Provincetown’s fishing fleet on Sunday by the Most Rev. James R. Cassidy, D.D. Bishop of Fall River Diocese, the most dramatic religious ceremony ever witnessed here. Practically all of the details of the arrangements have been worked out and it is expected that some 75 Provincetown and Truro boats will participate in the ceremony, Arthur Bragg Silva, committee chairman, has announced.
Events connected with the blessing of the fleet will take up most of the day with the fishermen assembling in front of the Knights of Columbus hall at 10:30 in the morning to march, escorted by members of the Bishop Feehan Assembly 4th Degree Knights of Columbus, to the Church of St. Peter the Apostle where Bishop Cassidy will celebrate the solemn high mass at 11. At the mass the Assembly will serve a guard of honor to Bishop Cassidy.
At 2:30 in the afternoon the fishermen will again assemble at the Knights of Columbus hall to march to the church to escort Bishop Cassidy, with members of the Bishop Feehan Assembly as honor guard, to the Town Wharf where the bestowal of the blessing will take place. The famed Santa Christo band of Fall River will lead both processions playing American and Portuguese music.
Around the south east end of the wharf the fishing boats, which have been cleaned, painted and flag-bedecked for the event, will be tied up and when the procession reaches the end of the wharf and the dignitaries take their places on the special platform to be erected they will slowly pull out into the harbor and make a great circle on the spacious expanse of water. Each boat will come close to the platform on which Bishop Cassidy will stand to receive the individual blessing. Included in the fleet will be draggers, scallopers, trap boats and dory fishing boats.
At the conclusion of the religious rites and the playing of the American and Portuguese national anthems by the band there will be a two-hour concert for the townspeople at the bandstand at the head of the dock.
In case of rain or high winds the ceremony of the blessing will take place in Town Hall.
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Jun 22nd, 2006