La Tosca Opens at New Broadway Theatre in New York
Edward Fuss reports the New Broadway Theatre hosts Sardou's La Tosca with Miss Fanny Davenport in the title role and highlights the theater’s elegant decor, mixed acoustics, and crowding issues. The reviewer notes Davenport's uneven performance, praises some moments, critiques others, and contrasts the production with Paris’s original.
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New York
fSpecran
New Broadway Theatre
M. Sardou
Frank W. Sanger
M. Sardon
The
Post
Scarpia
Fioria Yosca
la Tosca
Mario Cararadossi
Rome
St. Andrew’s Church
Cesare Angellotti
Mario
Angellotti
Frascati
Farnese
Marquise
Inquisition
Scorpia
Kievenger
Cyril Tourneur
Shakspere
Mare, Bernhardt
Porte St. Martin Theatre
Paris
Fanny Davenport
Miss Davenport
Angedlotti
Silence
McDowell
Mordaunt
Straws From State Street Reflect Weak Markets At Week's End
Markets were generally weak on Saturday with Read ing stock traded by Wormsers, Western Union slipping to 77 percent, and talk of a forced liquidations by a Baltimore and Ohio syndicate. Boston activity revived near close after a flat week. Wheat and provisions stayed dull. Evans sold Atchison at 97, predicting a market uptick next week. Campobello stock remains illiquid despite strong land and ship assets, while real estate leaders study a viaduct plan for New York city. Bond sales by Boston interests show substantial issuance and a shift to London Berlin and Paris.
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Wormsers
Reading
Western Union
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Gould
Boston
New York & Boston Rapid Transit Company
New York City
Dudley Street
Essex Street
Sunday Trade Rights Amid Religious Objections in Bill
Draft bill before the House judiciary committee proposes amending 1887 law to bar tail selling cigars and tobacco by pharmacists, allows Sabbath work by sect members within homes, and lets cities regulate Sunday commerce while avoiding disruption of worship. The measure awaits adjourned hearing March 16.
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House Judiciary Committee
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Statr House
Boston
Committee On Labor
Blue Room
State House
Robert Howard
Josian Quincy
Joint Committee On the Judiciary
Committee On the Judiciary
William F. Wharton
Harvey N. Coutison
Ship owners and workmen approve tonnage bill in Maine meeting
At a Damariscotta meeting in Maine on Saturday, ship owners and workmen unanimously adopted resolutions endorsing Representative Cummings of Newark for introducing a bill that would grant tonnage money to vessels built in the United States and engaged in foreign trade.
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Damariscotta
Cummings
Newark
United States
Bach’s St Matthew Passion Performed by Handel and Haydn Society
The Handel and Haydn Society presented Bach’s St Matthew Passion at Music Hall with Mrs. Henrietta Beebe-Lawton, Miss Mary H. How, Mr. William J. Winch, Mr. Myron W. Whitney, Mr. George Prehn, plus conductor Mr. Carl Zerrahn and organist Mr. J. J. Lang. An assistive Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Mr. Franz Kneisel, accompanied a boys chorus from the Church of the Advent and Church of the Messiah. Fifty eight of seventy eight movements were performed, praised as masterful choir work, with Zerrahn’s broad conception lauded.
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Handel and Haydn
Music Hall
Handel and Haydn Society
Henrietta Beebe-Lawton
Mary H. How
William J. Winch
Myron W. Whitney
George Prehn
Carl Zerrahn
J. J. Lang
H. G. Tucker
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Franz Kneisel
Church of the Advent
Church of the Messiah
8. B. Whitney
Boston
Zerrahn
Bach
Kneisel
How
Winch
Prehn
Mr. Whitney
Eighteenth Symphony Concert with Mme Urso at Music Hall
The Boston Music Hall crowd packed the venue for Mime Camilla Urso who performed Rubinstein's violin concerto alongside Cherubini, Schumann, and Beethoven works. Review notes the program’s mix and Urso’s refined yet restrained violin sound, with emphasis on the concerto as a musical piece rather than a virtuoso showcase.
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Mme. Urso
Mme
Urso
Schumann
Manfred
Gericke
Brahms
Armide
E. Gluck
Music Hall
Camilla Urso
Rubinstein
L. Cherubini
A. Rubinstein
V.vace
Cherubini
Boston
Ruth in First American Production by Boylston Club
The Boylston Club presents the first U.S. production of Frederick Cowen's oratorio Ruth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Solos by Gertrude Franklin, Gertrude Edmands, Hay, and Johnson, plus excerpts from the London Daily Telegraph praise Cowen's blend of dramatic form and traditional choral style.
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Boylston Club
Frederick Cowen
Ruth
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Gertrude Franklin
Gertrude Edmands
Messrs
Hay and Johnson
London Daily Telegraph
Orcester
Comnpser
Jowen
Concert for Harvard Boat Club at Association Hall
A concert in aid of the Harvard University Boat Club will be given by the Harvard Glee Club Pieriau Sodality and Banjo Club at Association Hall near Boylston and Berkeley streets on Tuesday evening March 6. Patronesses and patrons include the Bradlees Adamses Bacons and Bancrofts among many others.
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Harvard University Boat Club
Harvard Glee Club
Pieriau Sodality and
Banjo Club
Association Hall
Boylston
Berkeley Streets
Josiah Bradlee
John Quincy Adams
Charles Fairchild
John C. Bancroft
John F. Anderson
Arthur Hunnewell
Francis EE. Bacon
Charles EK. Perkins
Robert Bacon
A. Lawrence
F. W. Bradlee
C. B. Porter
Alexander Agassiz
George HE. Richards
W. H. Forbes
R. C. Watson
B. W. Crowninshield
Jere Abbott
Josiah Bradiee
Henry L. Higginson
Francis Peabody, Jr
W. A. Bancroft
Edward N. Feuno
Commodore Hovey Sails From New York for Southampton
Ocean yachting party led by Commodore Hovey will depart New York on May 26 bound for Southampton to take charge of the Fortuna. After cruising English waters for a month or more the group will return home aboard the yacht.
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Commodore Hovey
New York
Southampton
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association Advances Policy Death
Stoughton February 29 1888 letter from Many E Phinney thanking John Lowper for an advance of 1000 dollars on policy 66147 held by her late husband John G Phinney who died on February 16 expressing gratitude to New York officers and for assistance in proofs of loss.
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Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York
Many E. Phinney
Amusements listings on Hollis Street and Tremont venues
Evening showtimes announce Arrah na Pogue at Hollis Street Park Theatre Globe and Boston theaters. The Marquis at Globe, Boston Ideal Opera at Boston Theatre, Howard Athenaeum Variety, The Bells of Haslemere at Boston Museum, Cyclorama Battle of Bucker Hill, Life of General Grant at Old South Church, Hoodman Blind at Grand Opera House, Battle of Gettysburg at Cyclorama Tremont Street.
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Hollis Street
Park Theatre
Old South Church
Philippoteaux
Grant
Grand Opera House
Hoodman
Tremont Street
Gettysburg
Daily Market Ticker Noted Early Trades
At 11 50 a m R L Day Co reports stock activity while at noon Francis Henshaw Co shows another set of trades. Fruit Horatio Harris records midday movements around 12 o clock.
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R. L. Day & Co
Irancis Henshaw & Co
Horatio Harris
Marriage notices announce Jackson Banfield and Wandless Bruce engagements
In Poughkeepsie New York on March 1 at the bride’s mother’s residence Reverend A P Van Gieson united William S Jackson of Colorado Springs Colorado to Helen F daughter of the late Hon E C Banfield of Wolfeboro New Hampshire. In West Newton on March 2 Reverend O D Kimball joined Andrew J Wandless to Miss Y Gertrude Bruce.
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Jackson Banfield
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Prude
A. P. van Gieson
William 8
Death Notices From March Listings in New England
Deaths include Charles H. McKenny aged 62 at Boston area Emily Aturtevant McPherson wife of E M McPherson in East Boston Gilbert Denby Maccarty aged 16 in Franconia N H William P Stearns aged 69 in Somerville Nathaniel R Treadwell aged 61 in Salem and Professor Ernest Young aged 35 in Cambridge.
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Daughter OF the Regiment
Margaret Mather
Daniel Hurley
Leah
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Shaun the Post
Arrah NA Pogue
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G. E. Palo
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