Ruddigore's New York Reception Mixed with Praise and Flaws
A New York review profiles Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore at the Metropolitan. The critic lauds Sullivan's music and notes Gilbert's uneven libretto, praising clever travesties while calling the plot convoluted and the action sometimes dull. The piece may endure if the score carries it.
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New York
Krebiehl
Tribune
Gilbert and Sullivan
Krebichl
Wagner
Verdi
Metropolitan Opera House
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Sam
Arthur Sullivan
Gilbert
Arthur
Sir Arthur
Ruddigore
Robert Oakapple
England
Sullivan
Rose Maybuch
Courtice Pounds
E. George Thorne
Burlesque cast grows stronger with returning voices
In a grotesque burlesque vein Federici and Billington renew vocal presence after gains. Geraldine Almar has improved and renders three or four droll songs with grace. Kate Foster Elsie Cameron as Mad Margaret and Dame Hannah strengthen the cast, which Montgomery notes may seem stronger tonight than last night.
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Federici
Mr. Billington
Geraldine Almar
Kate Foster
Elsie Cameron
Mad Margaret
Hannah
Roderick Margatroyd
G. E. Montgomery
Ballot Results for U S Senator In Separate State Sessions
In Trenton New Jersey the joint Legislature backed Abbott and Sewell with 35 votes each and 11 scattering while Attorney General John P Stockton’s nomination was confirmed unanimously in the Senate. In Charlestown W Va the twenty seventh ballot for Senator showed Camden 39 Goff 84 Daily 8 Thompson 5 and 5 scattering.
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Trenton
N. J
United States
Abbott
Sewell
Scattering
Senate
John P. Stockton
Cuarurston
W. Va
Camden
Goff
Daily
Dem
Thompson
Greenbacker
General Crook Visits Boston for Red Man Talks
General George Crook arrived in Boston at the invitation of the Boston Indian Citizenship Association. He will relate his thirty five years of Indian warfare experience at several meetings including Old South Meeting House and Tremont Temple with parlor receptions, as the association aims to improve the red man’s life and civilization.
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Department of the Platte
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Park Street
Shawmut
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Daar
Sanders Theatre
Cambridge
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Prince
John D. Long
J. B. Thayer
H. O. Houghton
Rufus S$. Frost
John Boyle O Reilly
Frank Wood
D. A. Goddard
Hemenway
Bullard
Dismissal of Boston Water Power Mandamus to Fund Back Bay Park
The Supreme Court dismisses the Boston Water Power Company petition seeking a mandamus to force Boston City Council to appropriate funds for Back Bay Park under 1886 Act. Court holds no mandatory duty exists and council discretion governs annual allocations and bond approvals.
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Exceedingly Interesting Paint and Clay Club Exhibition Opens
The sixth annual Paint and Clay Club exhibition opened with a large reception at the Art Club gallery. Thirty seven exhibitors present including Allen Atwood Caliga Clements Dean Elwell Enneking and others. The strong showing features Dutch marine views Graves flowers and fruit, landscapes and portraits. The catalog by W. L. Taylor is illustrated and well printed with club insignia on the cover. The show runs until March 10. Separately Boston bridge department hearing held at City Hall with adjournment to March 5 after discussions over charges against Superintendent Bartholomew Young.
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H. Peabody Flagg
Abbott Graves
C. E. L. Green
Otto Grundmann
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H. H. Kitson
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Louis G
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Thomas Robinson
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Elwell
Allen
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Waterman
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Graves
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Domburg
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Rogers
Tarbell
Vonnoh
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Rotterdam
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Sandham
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Maguire
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Leary
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Boston Advertiser and Record
Railroad heaters and guard rails experiments
The railroad commissioners will witness tests of the Smith & Owen hot water heater on Friday and inspect Sewall car heater on the Maine Central at Portland Saturday. They have issued a circular to state railroads asking if bridges have guard rails or guard timbers and how installed.
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Smith & Owen
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Maine Central
Local Art Sales and Arrivals Attract Boston and Munich Figures
Mr H H Kitson sold his bronze La Musique de la Mer to a Boston lady. Mr F H Tompkins, long in Munich, will stay in town and likely take a studio until next autumn. Mr Abbott Graves plans a spring abroad for several years. Two Waterman paintings sold from Williams Everett gallery. one went to Mr Thomas B Clarke who traveled from New York to view the works. Clarke, a leading American art figure, shows strong taste in the sale.
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H. H. Kitson
Boston
F. H. Tompkins
Munich
Abbott Graves
Mr. Waterman
Messrs. Williams & Everett’s
Thomas B
Biggs assigns assets amid $100000 debts in outburst of business trouble
Edward M. Biggs wholesale and retail druggist of St. Paul Minnesota made an assignment yesterday with liabilities of about 100000. Several assignees listed include K Eberly & Co Caseyville Ky J F Baya Lake City Fla I E Anderson Interlachen Fla W C Land & Co Jacksonville Fla Mary Reichenbach Monticello Ind John Sharpe Lacrosse Wis Church & Phalen Troy N Y W M Gardiner Poughkeepsie N Y Louis Nolta St Louis Mo Ellis & Carver Kola Mo Ida F Wirth Pittsburgh Pa Charles W Clark & Co New Haven Conn A Newman San Francisco and Alexander Macdonald Pictou NS
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Caseyville
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San Francisco
Ladies’ Suits
Alexander Macdonald
Pictou
N. 5
Sale of Unopened Express Packages At Auction
600 unclaimed Express packages held by American Express were sold unopened at L. J. Bird & Co 82 Bromfield street. The sale drew church-fair level interest as buyers wagered on unknown contents and merriment followed each opening.
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Bromfield Street
Dr WairmMAN Recommends Di grelin for Severe Dyspepsia
Dr S E WairmMAN says Di grelin has benefited severe dyspepsia cases. Sold by all druggists at 1 dollar per bottle or by W F Kidder Co manufacturing chemists 83 John street Newark.
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W. F. Kidder & Co
John Street
Newark
Boston Theatres Offer Mixed Amusements This Week
Amusements section lists Mather in As You Like It at Hollis Street Theatre, Boucicault in Fin Mac Cool, McCaull in Lorraine at the│Biograph, private entertainment at Park Theatre, and the Parisian divers at the Italian venue with shows daily at 2 and 3, and 7:45 p.m.
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Even Balobe Theatre
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Kerry
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Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
Marriages in City and Suburbs Amid Feb Declarations
In this city many couples announce weddings in February. Isaac G Allen to Mary A Allen of Cambridge. Bigelow to Elizabeth Parker Smart. James D Edwin Chapman to Gertrude Barker Robertson. Ruth Wetherbee to Francis George Curtis. Emily N Newell to Charles Francis. Edward W Friend to Mary A Kenny. Frank P Prescott to Julia J Yeaton. George A Wallace to Helen E Flint. Isaac Wolff to Mamie Lewis.
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Willoughby
Ont
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Cambridge
Mass
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L. A. Bigelow
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Robertson
Chapman
E. W. Virgin
Saxonville
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Charles Francis
Boston
Kenny
St. Thomas’s Church
Somerville
George W. Durell
Edward W. Friend
Mary A. Kenny
Prescott—Yeaton
C. F. Davis
Frank P. Prescott
Dexter, Me
Obituary Notices of Local Residents February 21 1899
Obituary notices list deaths in Massachusetts towns and cities on February 20 21 22. Names include Agnes Benbow at Watertown aged 18 years 9 months Rachael Elder referenced, Frances H Bush at Brookline aged 83, Eben Clark at South Peabody aged 76 years 10 months Martha A Edmands at Cambridge aged 31 years months Susie Stetson at Somerville aged 12 years 11 months Smith Newell son of Lucius and Abby W Newell aged 22, Alfred Pierce at Concord aged 26 years 4 months 11 days and Rhoda Porter widow of Reuben Porter at Holbrook aged 85 years 7 months 21 days.
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Watertown
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Bush
Brookline
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Clark
South Peabody
Eben Clark
Cambridge
Martha A. Edmands
Somerville
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