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.
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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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Boston
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Joseph Doner
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Klaw & Erblanger
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Dublin
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WM. C.cameron
Rentz-Santley Burlesque Co
Leaves OF Shamrock
Boston Theatre
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C. B. Jefferson
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Ours
Edwin F. Thorne
I In
Hoyt’s
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Charles Frohman
Mgrs
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Mass
BR. A. Barnet
Carl Sflueger
BR. M
New England
Jas. A. Herne
Nathaniel Berry
Chickering Hall
Russia
H. E. Krehbiel
Mme. Lineef
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Myra
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London
George Grossmith
Homburg
Henry Irving
Bayton
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Tremont Row
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