Faust Delights Boston Opera House Audience
The Boston Opera House hosted the first performance of Faust with Paul Bourrillon as Faust and Giusto Nivette as Mephisto. The cast included Marguerite Jane Noria, Siebel Bettina Freeman, and others. The production impressed with strong chorus work, notable staging, and an attentive orchestra conducted by Mr. Goodrich.
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Faust
Boston Opera House
Paul Bourrillon
Mephistopheles
Giusto Nivette
Valentine
Raymond Boulogne
Wagner
Roberto Vanni
Marguerite
Jane Noria
Siebel
Bettina Freeman
Marthe
Mildred Rogers
Opera House
Miss Noria
Mr. Bourrillon
Santuzza
Gounod
Noria
Felicitas Freeman
Seibers
Miss Freeman
Mr. Nivette
Interesting Statement by Consolidated Gas Co
The Boston Consolidated Gas Company reports a decreasing trend in public complaints. It cites price scales and employee stock ownership as factors, noting 5761 complaints in year one and 3869 last year, with errors totaling 567 and 188 respectively, while promising thorough investigation and improved service.
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Consolidated Gas Co
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Consolidated Company
Public rehearsal charms with Longy Heink in D Indy's symphony
The eighth public rehearsal at Symphony Hall featured Georges Longy first oboist and Mme. Schumann-Heink as soloists. They joined D Indy's colossal symphony in B flat, praised for its bold structure, rare beauty, and ambitious musical span. The concert drew a large crowd with rush seating outside.
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Symphony Hall
Georges Longy
Mme
Schumann-Heink
D’indy
Mr. Longy
Mozart
Gounod
Wagner
Haldigung
D'Indy
Sappho
Elmendorf At Tremont Temple Tours Soudan In Stereopticon Show
Dwight L. Elmendorf led a large audience through the Soudan with moving pictures and stereopticons tracing the Nile over land and water. The two and a quarter hour lecture mixed humorous and historic stories with personal experiences, with a repeat performance scheduled for this afternoon.
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Dwight L. Elmendorf
Tremont Temple
The
Soudan
Nile
Mr. Elmendorf
Church school census shows 52142 pupils educated in five counties
The Rev. George A. Lyons reports 52142 pupils educated by the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes diocese across Suffolk Norfolk Middlesex Plymouth and Essex counties. Fifty nine parishes run elementary schools and twenty six parishes operate high schools.
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George A. Lyons
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jamaica Plain
Suffolk
Norfolk
Middlesex
Plymouth
Essex
Fraud in Woolens Charged
The Carded Woolen Manufacturers Association warns that a drastic tariff revision is needed in the incoming Congress to prevent scarcity. They claim the current schedule forces consumers to buy clothing not of American wool but cotton and inferior shoddy, harming both growers and wearers.
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Carded Woolen Manufacturers’ Association
Congress
Wool Market Manipulation Alleged In Tariff Fight
A historical statement accuses worsted manufacturers of controlling cloth prices to keep woolen clothing expensive for the average consumer. It argues tariffs favor worsted goods, limiting heavy shrinking wools and nails, while citing Taft’s 1909 remarks about tariff compromises. The piece blames lawmakers for a failed reform due to west wool growers and eastern worsted spinners’ influence.
Wool tariff split drives mills to unequal fortunes
Carded woolen mills sag while worsted mills surge as tariffs keep wool duties low. Provo Woolen Mills led by Reed Smoot and Merchants’ Woolen Mills in Dedham have struggled, while American Woolen Co. keeps Hecla mill idle yet funds Lawrence worsted project. A Carded Wool Manufacturers letter to President Taft seeks tariff revision.
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Provo Woolen Mills
Provo
Reed Smoot
Merchants’ Woolen Mills
Dedham
Mass
Hecla
Uxbridge
American Woolen Mill Company
Lawrence
Taft
Congress
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BY Olin Downes
Coan
Chester
Cluett, Peabody & Co., Makers
Winona
Far West
East
Boston
Harvard Square
Cambridge
American Woolen Company
America
Washington and Essex Streets
Henry Siegel Co
Coonskin
Coats
Siegel
Stein-Bloch
Meltons
Handy Men’s Furnishing
Washington and
Essex Streets
Harvard
Lloyd Domet
Jou
Wright’s
New England
Tiffany
Vienna
Austria
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