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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
8
Last night at the Boston Opera House Puccini's Mme Butterfly was repeated with the familiar cast, including principal performers returning for another run.
Mme Tamaki Miura sings Butterfly with Ric Cardo Martin as Pinkerton in a highly praised performance. Thomas Chalmers portrays Sharpless and Elvira Severoni Suzuki. The production features strong individual performances and a remarkably smooth ensemble with an engaged audience applauding after each act.
Miss Frances G Curtis, candidate for re election to the Boston School Committee, outlines plans to improve pupil health. She cites school doctors under committee control aiding vision and dental care, special classes for the semi blind and deaf, and home instruction to lift underdeveloped pupils.
Miss Margaret Wilson daughter of the President will preside at a session of the American Civic Association annual convention in Washington meeting December 28. The session will be devoted largely to consideration of using school houses as civic centres.
Miss Maud Birch formerly employed by Mrs Constance Lowell alleges slander false imprisonment malicious prosecution and trespass in a $10000 damages suit in Superior Court before Judge White and a jury.
Miss Maud Birch testifies in 1913 that while employed at Mrs Lowell’s home at 11 West Cedar street several personal items disappeared and she faced threats to sign a confession. She describes being confronted at the Lowell residence with her sister present and was later arrested but the case was dismissed after Lowell admitted a mistake. Meanwhile Willis E Bunnell’s engagement to Hazel Webber is blocked by his parents who demand parental consent before a marriage license can be issued.
A daylight robber forced entry at 84 Prescott Street Cambridge Bromley Court apartment of Mrs. Osgood seizing jewelry valued at $1900. The thief, likely familiar with the building, entered while Mrs. Osgood was out and before the telephone operator began duty. The haul included a sapphire ring amethyst pins pearls cuff links and other gold pins.
Citizens auxiliary committee marks Lewis Hayden birth centennial with a sunrise wreath at Woodlawn Cemetery a 2 pm service at the old Hayden homestead 66 Phillips Street a flag drape of his portrait in the secretary of State's office and an 8 pm closing service at the Twelfth Baptist Church Shawmut Avenue and Madison Street.
The Kreisler Club presented the second winter concert with more than a dozen selections in the Emerson building Harrison avenue. The double string quartet performed under director J H Lynch, attracting about 100 attendees.
A reader seeks dandruff relief. the answer prescribes plain yellow min vol scalp application three or four times weekly and thorough rinsing for weeks of improvement. Another asks about corpulence. advised safe reduction with five grain arbolone tablets noted as reliable, with many pleased by arbolene results.
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