Amusements and theatre listings in Boston notices
Amusements today list shows at Boston theatres including Bettys Finish The Solicitor Gore Lyala Thompson The Dazzler Grand Opera House George Wilsons Minstrels Street Theatre Kendal in The Ladies Statue Master and Man Ship Ahoy Annie Pixley Kate A Romance of the War Tremont Theatre Kate A Romance of the War and a 230 recital by Mrs HB Beach for the Marine Biological Laboratory activities
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Boston Tuiater
Washington Street
Howard Athenwam Specialty Company
Boston Museum
Tremont Street
Scollay Square
Betty
Solicitor
Gore
Lyala Thompson
Mrs. Kendal
Howard Aruxxavm
Howard Street
Master and Man
Tremont Theatre
Annie Pixley
Kate
Cyclorama OF
Jerusalem
Tremont Temple
H. B.A. Beach
Marine Biological Laboratory
Paris Hints of Boulangism Fizzle as Tempers Rise
In Paris M. DevonLrepDE leads a violent anti German crusade tied to the Empress Frederick’s visit. Boulangist figures linger in Brussels awaiting a turn. But hopes fade as the city’s tempers stay within tea pot limits, with plenty of reckless talk yet no real upheaval.
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Paris
M. Devonlrepde
Frederick
BouLan- Ger
Brussels
Micawber
Subsidy bill faces tough debate in Congress
Washington reports show strong Republican opposition and little Democratic support for the subsidy measure. The debate reveals waning chances for passage as leaders like Candler back free ships and O Neill denounces the bill, signaling the state’s prevailing sentiment.
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Congress
Washington
Friends
Boston Executive Business Association urges stock pricing reform
A memorial to the Legislative Committee on Railroads from the Boston Executive Business Association argues against stock watering by railroad companies. It insists shares should be issued at market value to raise needed capital, comparing undervalue issuances to selling stockholders notes for personal gain. The piece notes appendices addressing objections to reenacting laws requiring auction sale of additional stock.
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Legislative Committee
Boston Executive Business Association
The
Executive Business Association
The Gypsy Moth Incident
Governor Russell ends the Gypsy Moth Commission after a short, noisy tenure. Members reportedly hired among themselves and quarrelled over extermination methods, with little success.
Governor Russell Shifts Gypsy Moth Battle to State Board
The gypsy moth now covers about fifty square miles and at least one commissioner risks fines up to 1000 dollars or a year in jail. Governor Russell transfers the problem to the State Board of Agriculture, signaling clear action and urging departmental reform for practical results.
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Russell
State Board of Agriculture
RussEnt
The Use of the Streets in Street Railway Finance
The piece discusses methods for cities to charge street railway corporations for use of public streets. It reviews taxes on real estate machinery tracks and a lease system with public bidding. It notes constitutional questions, proposed bills from Boston groups, and appeals to Railroad Commissioners. It laments court backlogs delaying justice.
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WixiLiams
Legislative Committee On
Citizens’ Association of Boston
Relief of the Supreme Court
The Conference Committee signals a relief bill favoring an added circuit judge in each circuit and a Court of Appeals within each circuit with final jurisdiction in many appeal classes. It favors this plan over a divided Supreme Court, noting potential conflicts and disharmony between circuits.
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Supreme Court
Circuit Courts of Appeal
New York
Massachusetts
Court of Appeals
Congress
Conference Committee
Senate
Washington
Truants and Juvenile Offenders Debate at State House
A 1886 Boston truants law remains unimplemented and a hearing at the State House examined an amendment to place truants and juvenile offenders in Deer Island together. Proponents argued it risks mixing youths with criminals and erodes the purpose of a separate truant school.
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Boston
Deer Island
State House
Committee On Public Charitable Institutions
House of Reformation
Public schools and truants merit proper provision
The speaker argues that removing truant boys to separate mainland institutions would cost little and prevent crime. He warns that the current system, which allows truants to become criminals and then sends them to a reforming institution, is costly and counterproductive. He values children as much as parks, clean streets, or flowers in the gardens and calls for maintaining a robust public school system.
Society and Lent Observances with Mr McAllister
In a talk with a reporter, High Priest of Society Mr Warp McAllister discusses what Society does during Lent. He praises New York dinners and theatre parties as acceptable substitutes for dancing, notes imported chefs, and suggests tariffs on chefs to spur American cooking.
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Warp McAlluister
Society
McAllster
Medias Res
Florida
California
California—a Practice To Which Mr. McAllister
New York
McAlllister
McAcuster
McAnnister
Mr. McAllister
McA Vuister
Monumental Verse and Anglo American Poets in Aldrich’s Volume
A critical review celebrates Aldrich's volume for its noble lyrics, especially lines praising England and its poets. It highlights patriotic pieces like Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips and Westminster Abbey, noting echoes of Keats and Tennyson and a tribute to enduring verse that transcends a single era.
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Tennyson
Shakspere
Milton
England
Westminster Abbey
Wrenpell Pxittps
Century Magazine
Hawrhorrne
Emerson
Loncretuon
Scumyneir
Wendell Poitairs
Casar
Louis Napoleon
Mari Antoinette
Charlotte Corpay
Batuschka
Tsar
Keats
The Sisters Tragedy and Other Poems by Thomas Alprich
A review of Thomas Barney Alprichs new volume The Sisters Tragedy from Houcuron Morelli and Co features lyrical and dramatic pieces including Paul ine Pavlovna and Act V Midnight. The opening dramatic piece uses a two women loving the same man motive presented with fresh arrangement and swift, tight verse.
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Thomas Barney Alprich
Houcuron, Morelli & Co
Pauline Pavlovna
Boston Streets Inspire Tales From Everyday Chats
An observer laments crowding on Washington Street in Boston sakes leisure to inspect shop windows and suggests a system to curb pushing pedestrians. He recalls old Boston banking and trade practices, notes lively street conversations, and envisions writers using casual talk as material for fiction.
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Lamb
Hazlitt
London
Boston
Washington Street
Boston Girl Hand Shake Dials Back Fashion Warning
A writer notes a dated trend of formal hand shaking among young women, describing a high arm, curved gesture and questioning if Boston girls are behind the times. The piece jars readers with its social critique and calls out provincial manners as observers wonder about modern introductions.
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New York
Boston
Kendals Star in Impulse At Hollis Street Theatre
The Kendals headline a refined Impulse revival at Hollis Street Theater praised for its honest French roots and lively performances. Mr. Kendal’s Captain Crichton earns near forceful consistency, Mrs. Kendal’s Dr Beresford is buoyant, while Miss Vanbrugh as Mrs Macdonald and Mr. Barnes as Colonel Macdonald deliver standout, sympathetic, capable work.
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Mrs. Kendal
Captain Crichton
Mr. Kendal
Drs. Beresford
Edith
Colonel Macdonald
Crichton
Miss Vanbrugh
Barnes
Mr. Barnes
Denison
Sir Henry
Mr. Carne
Victor de Riel
Mrs. Macdonald
Miss Kilmore
Miss Bennett
Bernhardt to Open at Fifth Avenue New York
Mme Bernhardt signs for a return season in New York starting November 2 at the Fifth Avenue Theatre Mine. A three month Australia engagement is cancelled and the company returns to San Francisco for a brief run between those cities while staging new productions.
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Mme, Bernhardt
New York
New Fifth Avenue
Australia
San Francisco
Bernhardt
Music Notes From Local Recitals At Iremont Temple
Mrs H H A Beach presents the second pianoforte recital for Marine Biological Laboratory at Iremont Temple 2 30 with Bach Beethoven D Albert and more. Polymia Club under C E Hay tonight at Dudley Street opera house. Kneisel Quartet plans three Cambridge concerts next month with noted artists. Season tickets $3 at University Book Store Cambridge.
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H. H. A. Beach
Marine Biological Laboratory
Iremont Temple
Bach
Beethoven
D’albert
Paine
Foote
Greig
Sgamiell
Moskowski
Polymia Club
C. E. Hay
Dudley Street
Pera House
Kneisel Quartette
Brattle Hall
Cambridge
Arthur Nikisch
Helen Hopekirk
Perabo
Kreutzer
University Book Store
Mrs Erving Winslow At Cambridge In Second Reading
Mrs. Erving Winslow presented her second reading on English dramatists at Cambridge yesterday afternoon to an attentive audience. The Predecessors of Shakspere served as the central theme with selections from Lyly and Endymion, followed by Marlowe scenes from Edward III rendered with charm and insight.
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Erving Winslow
Cambridge
English Dramatists
Oddities and opinions on law politics and censor
A collage of brief notes covers copyright limits in Pittsburg and spelling debates, echoes anti Sunday press sentiment, census quirks in Bengal, low judge salaries in Chicago, experiments with animal tobacco use, and a futuristic plan in New Zealand to sell Rights to Live with depopulation aims. The items mix satire, reform ideas, and social commentary.
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Ohio
Boston Herald
Springfield Union
Calcutta
Bengal
Chicago
New York Evening Post
New Zealand
Howlett
Was there a Barbizon school debated in a letter to the editor
A 1891 letter to the editor challenges the Barbizon label, arguing many 1830s painters like Rousseau Millet Dupré Troyon Decamps Delacroix and Corot should not be grouped under a Barbizon school. It notes Rousseau's Barbizon connection but says key artists worked elsewhere and differed in style and influence.
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Barbizon
Saint Remy
Desmond Fitz Gerald
Brookline
America
Rousseau
Millet
Diaz
Jules Duvré
Paris
Dupré
Isle Adam
Jules Dupré
Troyon
Sevres
Normandy
Holland
Decamps
Fontainebleau
J. Dupré
Helacroix
Corot
Barye
Delacroix Amon
Sarbizon
Fromentin
Delacroix
Forest of
Fonttainebleau
Daubigny
Holyland
Chautreuil
Boudin
Lépine
Claude Monet
Renoir
Pissaro
Nature
France
Brimmer to Lecture on Egypt Art at Museum
The Hon. Martin Brimmer will give three Saturday lectures titled Philosophy Religion and Art of Egypt at the Museum of Fine Arts starting March 7. The series is hosted by the Boston Art Students Association to benefit the Grundmann Studio Fund.
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Grundmann Studio Fund
Martin Brimmer
Egypt
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston Art Students’ Association
Grundmann Studio
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