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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 21, 1893

Page

5

Social Calendar Events Highlight Boston February

The Tuesday social page lists multiple upcoming events in Boston and vicinity. Notable items include art students’ reception at 180 Marlboro street, a Newton Tea at the Newton Club house, and marriages with plans for Los Angeles honeymoons. Recitals by Hannibal A Williams in Chickering Hall, several receptions at Mount Vernon and Commonwealth Avenue homes, and a Mary Adelaide Cook vocal recital are noted along with a Parish Club lecture on the World’s Fair. The Brunswick hosts the National Association of School Superintendents, with Mrs Grover Cleveland involved in a Lakewood charity concert and Mrs Barker slated for a Boston debut in March.

Post Art Samuel Mixter Marlboro Street Ode Students’ Association Stephen Glover Train Arlington Street Train Charles S. Dennison Walnut Street Newtonville T. B. Aldrich Mt. Vernon Street Horace MacMurtrie Beacon Street W. P. Wesselboeft Arthur Haserick Commonwealth Avenue C. V. Whitten Dorchester

Crinoline critique argues for present dress over hoops

A reader defends modern fashion against crinoline and hoop skirts. She argues that stout women can wear today’s dress with grace, condemns knee tight styles, and asserts independence and progress in women’s dress seeking artistic beauty rather than hideous retrogrades.

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Mrs Albert Barker Readings At Beacon Street Reception

Mrs Albert Barkers readings generate buzz after a Sunday New York press tone. The English reciter makes her society bow at a reception by Mrs McMurtrie at 81 Beacon Street before her New York debut at Madison Square Garden Concert Hall on Thursday afternoon March 2.

New York Albert Barker Hub McMurtrie Beacon Street Madison Uare Garden

Mrs Wilson Bissell Emerges as Washington Society Belle

Mrs. Wilson S Bissell wife of the next Postmaster General rises as a leading figure in Washington society. She is young and strikingly similar in bearing to Mrs Cleveland and will quickly draw comparisons. Married February 6 1890 at Geneva the couple settled in an elegant Buffalo home on Delaware Avenue. She stands tall with a commanding figure and a vivid vivacious countenance that lights her features.

Wilson S. Bissell Washington

Women in science and art gain honors and milestones

The Royal Society of Painter Etchers elevates three women as associates Miss Williams Miss Susan Crawford and Miss Jessie Harrison. E J Lloyd joins the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain as associate by examination. A women led medical journal edited by E M Roys Gavitt M D debuts this month with Dr Mary P Jacobi among contributors. Dr Caroline S Pease becomes Board of Examiners member at the State Hospital for the Insane in Poughkeepsie, first woman on the examining board. Bohemia recalls a 90 year old woman once courted by Goethe.

Royal Society of Painter Etchers Miss Williams Susan Crawford Jessie Harrison E. J. Lloyd Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain E. M. Roys- Gavitt M.D Mary P. Jacobi Caroline Pease State Hospital For the Insane Poughkeepsie New York Bohemia Goethe

Dr Mary Walker Sees Crinoline as Harmful

Dr Mary Walker now in a New York dime museum marks twenty five years since emancipation from petticoats. She denounces crinoline for causing nervous distress through hoop sway and hip pressure, says she never wore hoop skirts or corsets though she tried them, and argues it offers poor protection and hampers daily tasks like entering street cars and climbing stairs.

Mary Walker New York

Around the Theatres Bow Boston Burlesque and Shore Acres

Boston theatre notes praise Ali Baba burlesque at the Boston Museum and Shore Acres at the Bowdoin Square with strong turns by Louise Kissing Ida Mulle and Nat Goodwin. The Wilbur company returns at Grand Opera House with The Royal Middy and new names highlight a lively schedule amid travel delays and lavish stage machinery.

The Globe Grand Opera CRAND Washington Susie Kerwin Wilbur Opera Company Black Hussar Grand Duches Dorothy Boccaccio Nell Gwynne Falkas Tremont

Shore Acres shines in Boston with Herne drama

Last evening at the Museum Boston audiences saw James A Herne’s Shore Acres praised as a precise study of down East farm life with vivid detail and strong human emotion. The Columbus Theatre hosted the third week of 1492 in Boston amid record demand as Conroy and Fox refreshed the bill. Hoyt’s Temperance Town at Park Theatre also gains praise for thoughtful refinements and actor guidance.

Soudan Bowdoin Square Boston The Bowdoin Square Theatre James Horn Captain Temple Henry Neville Horace Lewis Matthew Harker Paul Deae Alexander Kearney James A. Herne Shore-Acres Down East Columbia Theatre Rice Conroy Fox Hoyt Park Theatre

Burlesque Crowd Applauds Rentz-Santley Company at Howard

A large audience braved bad weather to attend a Howard burlesque show led by the Rentz-Santley company praised as foremost in their line. Harry LeClair presented Protean novelties while Goldie and St. Clair drew top applause for their sharp humor. The widows and the Columbus burlesque drew strong praise with high order specialty acts and an extra matinee announced for Wednesday.

Wilbur Opera Company Grand Opera House Catherine Lewis Susie Kirwin Wilbur Dorotha Morton Mary Portugal Maggie Bolton J. E. Conly W. H. Kohnle Shaw Ed Bowen Howard Rentz-Santley Company Harry LeClair Goldie St. Clair Evne Sees Columbus

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Lakewood Grover Cleveland Lakewood Hotel Mrs DR. Mary Boston Museum Nat Goodwin the Howard and David Henderson Chicago Henderson Louise Kissing Ida Mulle Eddie Foy Henry Norman Joseph Doner Philadelphia George Ali Ada Derves Nellie Lynch Messrs Ali Beni Miss Hampton Uncle Nat Miss Addison Hudson Burrows Schiller Shore Acres Gates Mr. Herne William Harris Martin Wilson Farmer Gates Henry Guy Carleton Hollis Street Goodwin Margaret Ruthven Chauncy Mr. Goodwin Clarence Holt Bannister Strange Minnie Dupree Nel Ruthven Mabel Amber Estelle Mortimer Jessie Rood Mechanics’ Building Thayer’s Parker House Connolly’s Adams House Cashin’s Young’s Hotel Herrick’s Copley Square Heard’s West Street Clark’s Hotel Washington Street Brunswick Reynolds Quincy House Thurston’s Hollis Isaac B. Rich Street Theatre Nat C Lyceum Washington ST Boylston, Caiety Globe Theatre Ameri Kan Extravaganza Co Morgiana and the Forty Thieves Sinbad Bumstead Hall Paneer Xaver Scharwenka Music Hall Chas. F. Atkinson Co. B. Jefferson Klaw & Erblanger John T. Kelly McFee Dublin Barnard Memorial Children's Festival Edmunds Howard Atheneum WM. C.cameron Rentz-Santley Burlesque Co Leaves OF Shamrock Boston Theatre Eugene Tompkins C. B. Jefferson Klaw & Erlanger’s Country Circus Nton Seidl Emmaren Tata Susie Kirwin IN Museum Temperance Joe Austin William Austin Washington’s George Milbank EPA Lenton Manhattan Club Bertoto Peerless Peerles Peeress Ours Edwin F. Thorne I In Hoyt’s Columbia Rich & Harris Charles Frohman Mgrs Theatre Mass BR. A. Barnet Carl Sflueger BR. M New England Jas. A. Herne Nathaniel Berry Chickering Hall Russia H. E. Krehbiel Mme. Lineef Tremont Theatre Abbey Liv the Tae GRAU Propa Myra Neil Burgess County Fair Grossm TH London George Grossmith Homburg Henry Irving Bayton Ben Jamin Johnson Old South Church Grand Museum Cor Dover Austin&stone Tremont Row Scollag Square
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