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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1895
Page
5
A vintage advertisement touts Scott’s Emulsion as the best remedy for thin babies and pale, rapidly growing children. It claims the product builds up the system, enriches the blood, and aids recovery from coughs and colds, asserting substitutes are never as good. It emphasizes palatability and labels cod liver oil with hypophosphites as essential nutrients.
The five act tragedy Rinaldo by Ernest Lacy opened at Castle Square Theatre with Joseph Haworth in the title role. The play centers on the devoted doctor Rinaldo and his conflict with Elena, a peasant girl loved by nobleman Tommaso Adimari, and features strong acting from Haworth and Grace Atwell. Strong scenes in acts three and four, and a poignant death in act five, earned widespread applause as the production was praised for lyric blank verse and effective staging.
The Tremont Theatre greets the Bostonians for a three week engagement beginning with Prince Anamias, Victor Herbert composing the score and Francis Neilson providing the libretto. The opera follows strolling players led by a poet adventurer who proclaims himself Prince Anamias amid courtly adventures.
The Twentieth Century Girl opened at Park Theatre to a large audience with bright music witty dialogue lively dancing and broad humor. Sydney Rosenfeld and Ludwig Englander present a burletta about a girl bachelor Miss Percy Verance who may become a congressional candidate while staging a play. guardian Mr Dinglewort objects to women in masculine dress and politics. Cast includes Bettina Gerard Catherine Lingard Edith Howe Archie Crawford John T. Kelly and Al H. Watson with Lillian Thurgate delivering a graceful dance and strong performances throughout.
The popular Civil War drama Shenandoah drew a large, enthusiastic audience at the Columbia Theatre last night. C. H. Riegel starred as General Haverill with Henry Weaver Jr as Colonel Kerchival West, Margaret Robinson as Gertrude Ellingham, Bruce McRae as Captain Heartsease, Mary Anglin as Madeline West, and May Wood as Mrs Edith Haverill. The company delivered strong performances and the production featured perhaps the best sets yet seen for the play in this city, drawing wide approval.
Chauncey Olcott returned to the Grand Opera House with The Irish Artist drawing a full audience for a second appearance this season. Olcott’s strong voice and popular songs drew encore after encore. The company, led by Daniel Gilfether as Sir Robert Dean and C F Gotthold as Edmund Dean, featured Ila Irvine as Maggie.
The Boston Theatre buzzed with carpenters and scene men as Miss Fanny Davenport prepared to stage Sardou's Gis mondas. A private dress rehearsal went smoothly and officials expect a large, eager crowd for tonight's premiere.
The Bowdoin Square audience gave a full house for the touring production of the Silver King. Carl A. Haswin led the strong cast as Wilfred Denver with frequent calls at curtain. Frances R. Haswin Nellie Denver, and the ensemble including S H Verney Louis Gifford J D Walsh Annie Morton and young Walshs drew favorable notices.
Nat C. Goodwin showed humor and humanity as Jim Radburn sheriff in Mizzou ra earning praise for genuineness beyond mere farce. Blanche Walsh as Kate Vernon, Holt as Joe Vernon, and Minnie Dupree as Lizbeth contribute to a simple, natural atmosphere with strong character work.
The London Gaiety Girls and a clever coterie of comedians gave two performances at the Lyceum Theatre yesterday greeted by appreciative audiences. The programme opened with a musical burletta The Reception of the Clans introducing many bright specialties. Victor Lee Miss Dot Lathrop Thomas Robinson Ed Gallagher Picardo and George Davis made things merry. A lively sketch featured Jennings and O'Brien aided by Annie Mabel O'Brien a bright child artist who sang and danced with piquant charm. Hilton added new laurels to his reputation with a marvellous contortion act. The show closed with an original burlesque starring the company and a bevy of shapely young women.
The Black Flag drew large audiences at the Palace Theatre yesterday as Henry Pettitt's famed drama impressed in strong acting, fine scenery, and expert production. William Stafford as Harry Glyndon elicited sympathy with the prisoner’s suffering, while Ethel Tyler and Eugene Sweetland delivered notable performances as Naomi and Jack Glyndon respectively. Frederick Ormonde as Sim Lazarus also scored, with the remainder of the cast praised as acceptable.
A historical newspaper snippet lists cast members for a stage production. Names include Owen Glyndon, Herbert C. Chesley, Jim Seaton, J. H. Griffith, Augustus Seas, Harry Leonard, John Locksley, Frank Edwards, Captain Handysides, James Carden, Captain Maskly, A. J. Double, and others among roles like Lilian Calef Mary and Topsy.
The B F Keith's vaudeville bill drew large houses as Juan Caicedo the Spanish wire performer stunned audiences with graceful equilibristic feats. Hadi Taha's Arabs impressed with oriental gymnastics while Delorell brothers and McAvoy May acts sparked laughter and applause. Bernard Dillon and the Dillon brothers, Tom and Hattie Nawn, Bryant and Richmond and many others filled a long, lively program.
The Howard Atheneum enters another week of success with Robert Manchester's Night Owls burlesque and Lothrop's long olio. The program features McCloud and Melville in Saharet, J. K. Mullen and Annie Dunn in Bradley's Visit, Topack and Steele, Tilly Jardyne, Odell and Page, and Odell and Page among others, plus a grand Henry-Etta extravaganza and a famed dog and monkey circus by Professor McCart. Roles include Ida Stussell, Aida N Armour, the Marions, and a strong French trumpet trio.
Katherine Reber stars in Camille at Lothrop’s Grand Museum to a crowded house. J Gordon Edwards Lillian Mortimer and Frank Drumier give strong support while a high class variety show with Rich mond Glenroy Ryders Bettina La Marr and others delights the audience with acts and sketches.
Pauline Hall and an esteemed company bring 31 musical chambers to the Boston Museum for two weeks starting Monday. The operatic comedy Dor cas promises tuneful catchy music likely to be popular. Olga Nethersole makes her Boston debut March 18 with a brilliant repertory during her stay.
The last week of Zip opened at the Museum with Annie Lewis starring and drawing a large audience. Annie Clarke and the cast including J H Ryley George F Marion Sheridan Black Arthur Forrest Helen Dayne Mrs Pennoyer Edgar Halstead and Harry Davenport were praised for solid performances in the final run through Saturday night.
The Bijou Opera House continues showing Our Uncle Dud ley as the second week opens with audience interest high and performances attracting steady crowds. The lighthearted production headlines the bill with comic turns and familiar routines sustaining appeal.
The revue opened last night with George Wilson in the title role drawing laughs at its ludicrous predicaments. The piece remains popular as audiences have followed it for the past week. No show tonight, but the play continues for the rest of the week to amuse patrons.
Opera week at the Scollay Square Museum features Captain James Woodward's amphibian company in Voices From the Deep. Sea lions perform with humanlike skill amid drums, xylophones, and other acts as large crowds applaud hourly shows. Also featured are Young Americus, the Imperial Hungarian Sextet, and Arabian necromancer Mustapha Baba among many listed performers.
The Lees headline at the Nickel Odeon on Hanover street with a reclining apple cut on a lady’s throat and a hatchet and axe throwing act. The program features Yeager and Wood, Alice Chester, Kittie Hoffman, Charles Mack, Delmar and Girard, Professor Lees marionettes, and a female minstrel company.
Rumors say Louise Beaudet’s company remains active with a Chicago engagement for The Dragoon’s Daughter. The Emergency Hospital benefit at Boston Theatre on March 7 will feature Joseph Haworth in Rinaldo as a highlight. Season tickets for the German opera start April 1 at the box office.
England's unemployed hearing in London reports MP James Keir Hardie admitting distress is vast and a five million pound state grant would only cover six weeks. John Burns questions the impact of grants, Hardie retorts that any debauchery comes from charity relief funds.
Feb 25 news from Havana reports rising fears of a Cuban revolution. The governor-general enforces the public order act island wide, allowing immediate punishment for sedition. About twenty four men defied authorities at Ybarra near Matanzas seeking rebel recruits, with further trouble reported at Guantanamo.
A Merrimac Valley Congregational Club gathering at Centre Church in Haverhill elected officers. New slate includes President G. Sargent of Methuen and vice presidents Rev Calvin M. Clark, Prof M. S. McCurdy, Gordon C. Cannon, and Joseph S. Sanborn. Following the vote a discussion on the Norwegian system for liquor control was held with Edgar O. Achorn opposing and Rev Dr Beach supporting.
Edwin R. Hunt, 51, son of the late Reuben S. Hunt of Winnengance, dies in Bath. He was a prominent lumber dealer and a director of Bath National Bank. He was unmarried.
Raphael Caudetta was struck with a bottle during a row at Rumford Falls and died at a Lewiston hospital. Officers are pursuing the assailant who delivered the fatal blow.
The Livermore and Knight Company distributes a unique Washingtons Birthday keepsake an axe shaped paper model full size with G W on the handle and a firm inscription on the blade. They issue this yearly reminder of the immortal George in a distinctive form.
The residence of August Fels of Dracut, agent for the Merrimack Woollen Mills, burned this morning. Loss is $10,000 with insurance. Some furniture was saved.
C F Jackson 30 attempted suicide by placing poison in beer tonight in Lawrence. He is in critical condition and remains unknown at this time.
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