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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1901
Page
5
Open Day and Evening at Tremont Temple offers Munyon remedies for grip cold rheumatism indigestion Brights disease heart and nervous disorders with free medical advice. The ad touts 57 cures and urges early treatment with inexpensive vials and druggist sales.
Society notes mark Mrs Charles H Bond ending her Tuesday at homes and family travel to Washington then Palm Beach. A grand Somerset hall hosts Miss Esther Hayden’s coming out as December debut. Gardiner-Mitton wedding prep draws George Gardiner Jr and Miss Alice Mitton to Brookline home for tomorrow’s ceremony with noted guests and performers.
The Naval Veterans of Boston will place a candidate in the race for junior vice commander of the G A R at their convention at Faneuil Hall on February 12 and 18. Shipmate Charles W. Smith is the selected nominee.
Mrs Helen Kilkenny of New Portland Maine recalls her mother using Ayers Hair Vigor for two decades as a hair dressing. It is recommended to stop hair loss keep scalp clean restore gray hair color and is sold at one dollar per bottle.
If your druggist cannot supply you send for an express bottle prepaid to your nearest express office. J C Aver Co Lowell Mass invites readers to request their handsome book on The Hair.
At the Park Theatre Frohman's comedians present Self and Lady with Nellie Butler Maggie Holloway Fisher and May Lambert. The old French force theme mistaken identity and disguises make a funny if thin farce but the skilled company elevates the show. The Tremont production All the world loves a lover and Way Down East receive praise with three weeks left and souvenirs planned for the 175th performance.
The sensational melodrama Sporting Life returned to Boston Theatre for a week long run. Nora and the Earl of Woodstock share a troubled romance, with a jealous brother killing Olive De Carteret in a climactic third act. Lawrence Johnstone and Marion Shirley drew sympathy as leads.
Robert Fitzsimmons, the famed boxing figure, appears in a four act drama at Grand Opera House in The Honest Blacksmith. The audience filled the house and gave strong applause for Fitzsimmons and his wife on stage while a cast including Harry Clifton and Jessie Ralph supported the performance. Next week Rose Melville offers Sis Hopkins.
Patrons enjoyed The Queen of Chinatown at Bowdoin Square Theatre with new scenery and lavish Oriental costumes. Susette Willey stars as the opium victim and Lt. Harry Hildreth is played by James, with strong turns by Carl Vey and E K Denison.
The modern comedy Liberty Hall at Castle Square Theatre drew hearty praise for R C Carton and a strong Conmpatt cast. Jillian Lawrence Blanche Chilworth Marian A Chapman and Leonora Gnito impressed in notable roles while John Craig Charles Mackay and John Craven gave solid performances as key characters. The production runs one week before The Little Minister opens.
John Hare's second week at Hollis Street Theatre draws a large attentive Boston audience. Irene Vanbrugh shines in the production with a standout third act performance. A special matinee of 2 Pair of Spectacles is announced with Vanbrugh in a congenial role, marking Hare's Houston farewell with The Gay Lord Quex as the regular main offering.
The fragment notes ongoing nightly receipts tied to the arrival of Way Down Nast, hinting at a continuing pattern of records or tallies. It presents no clear event, dates, or names beyond the thematic reference to Nast.
Snow did not deter visitors as the eighth week of General Lew Wallace's Ben Hur opened at the Colonial Theatre. The cast includes William Farnum W Hart Frank Kingdon Francklyn Roberts Mary Shaw Mabel Burt Adele Block and an army of skilled supernumeraries. An extra matinee on Lincoln’s Birthday February 13 will accommodate out of town attendees.
The Boston Museum hosts a China inspired show with San Toy in town from London after a year. James T Powers gains praise for spontaneous fanmaking while Carolyn Gordon enchants as Dudley and Rhoda’s pagoda song earns charm. Fortescue as a mandarin and a cast including Melville Stewart Sirony Lambert Flora Zabelle and others perform. The comedy starts at 7 45 p m.
The Miladi and the Musketeer company closed its first week at the Columbia Theatre with a well filled house despite rain. Charles J. Ross remains a hit as cardinal and Arthur Nelstorne’s Oh Rachel continues to draw encores. Tom Browne’s whistling solos as messenger boy were well received with several new songs added to the program.
The Grand Theatre's stock company brings back N. S. Wood in Out in the Street at the South End venue. Severin De Deyn leads the villain role opposite a strong cast including James A. Bliss and Mildred Hyland. New scenery, specialty acts, and daily matinees bolster a one week engagement with bargain prices for ladies.
The European Sensation Burlescucers began a run at the Howard with a new musical trifle The Night It Happened detailing two Americanized high flyers in New York The cast includes Pat White Will Boulden Tom Griffin Helen Russell Mamie Richards Allie Vivian Mamie Brown and others The program also features popular vaudeville specialties and living pictures with The Prince of Pawling as the closing travesty The week’s top bill features Haines and Pettingill with Dorothy Drew and Milt Aborn plus The Plumber and several comic acts
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as a natural remedy for low vitality and lingering coughs caused by the grippe. It claims to heal bronchial inflammation, restore strength, and return sufferers to health, offering a free trial bottle from Scott & Bowne of New York.
The first Sunday audience packed Keiths for a top vaudeville program headlined by Jenny Yeamans whose contagious humor and the scene stealing acts of Sam Bernard Charles Wayne Anna Caldwell Torcat Winton and Henry Lee impressed patrons. The pageant of nations Egyptian scarf dance Red Hussar drill and Captain Eddy’s staging received high praise as a standout all around entertainment.
The Boston Music Hall presents a strong week with Three Martens Sam Kitty Clara Louise top liners. Sam and Kitty, popular since earlier Days, perform in a thoroughfare and a ball room. The program also features Clifford and Huth, the Mimic Four, Fred St Onge brothers, Smith and Fuller musical wonders, Zazell and Vernon pantomime act, the Clemence sisters in an operatic sketch, Lawrence Crane Irish Adonis, Spaulding hand jumper, Dot Rand Heeland dances, Nason Frances Rube and German, Fox and his dog, Budd brothers, and enchanting tableaux. Tickets go on sale at Hollis Street Theatre box office Wednesday morning.
A curious show at Austin & Stone's recreates an Algerian street with turbaned soldiers Moorish maidens and derisive dervishes. Rosa spins in a mud whirl at 190 revolutions per minute while fakirs camel drivers and musicians add color alongside a lineup of acts including the Lindons Howard Rowleys Drew Sperks and Starr and others.
The Lyceum Theatre hosted The Utopians burlesque and vaudeville company with star acts like Frobel and Rage Odell and Perry Whiting and Whiting Hickman Brothers and Getmore and Garland and Quaker City Quartet. In Grand Utopia showcases sixteen Pierrette costumed dancers and a barber shop satire Jordan White Co. ends the program.
At a bustling venue the Reptile Queen Princess Olga displayed pythons boas and alligators. Curio hall highlights included flame belcher Miss Balbroma, strongman Cary, banjo heroes Butler and Thompson, necromancer Whero Oriental, and an eight-woman tug of war. Vaudeville offered two nightly sketch acts and numerous acts in the parlor theatre. Amateur night announced for Friday.
John Hare presents two one act plays A Pair of Spectacles and A Barri cade next Thursday at Hollis Street Theatre to benefit the Woman's Charity Club. Cast from San Toy Miladi and the Musketeer featured in the bill.
Denman Thompson arrives in Boston with The Old Homestead at the Boston Theatre next Monday for a two week run. He recreates Uncle Josh with a natural Yankee charm and a unique stage creation. Wednesday and Saturday matinees are scheduled during the engagement.
The Paris Exposition will be the subject of a Burton Holmes lecture at Tremont Temple. It will be held Wednesday at 8 PM and Saturday at 2 30 PM. Holmes visited the exposition 110 times and will show numerous fine still and motion picture illustrations.
The fourth in H. G. Tucker's concert series occurred last evening at the People's Temple in Columbus Avenue. Performers included Ernst Perabo on piano Leopold Lichtenberg violin Herman Heberlein cello with Elsa Heindli soprano and H. G. Tucker as accompanist.
Mme. Marcella Sembrich offered a second recital yesterday afternoon at Symphony Hall in fine voice. She performed works by Mozart Haydn Schubert Bungert Strauss and Lowe plus a group of folk songs, pleasing a very large audience with her vocal artistry.
Washington Delgado of the Young Men's Christian Association upset champion sprinter Arthur Duffy in a special 60 yard dash at the Knickerbocker A. C. winter carnival in Madison Square Garden. Duffy finished second to Delgado with Arthur Kent of the Pastime A. C. third as the meet drew top sprinters and jumpers from across the country. University of Pennsylvania and Cornell claimed wins in longer events, while Columbia and the College of the City of New York trailed in the relay.
A grand charity concert will be held Sunday evening February 10 at Hollis Street Theatre under Y M H A auspices. Volunteers include Jacques Hoffman violin Emanuel Fiedler Bernard Fiedler G T Sauer Leon Van Viiet Austrian String Quartet Idalie Levy soprano Clara Wallentin mezzo soprano Sofia Wallentin contralto Adele Adler Zella Cole pianist Sig Fiumara baritone.
The Board of Health has served notice on undertakers after a complaint over burial laws. Some Russian Hebrews reportedly inter the dead without caskets, a practice described as old among them. The board demands compliance with the law.
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