Boston Composer’s Grand Opera in English Given
The Metropolitan Opera opened with The Pipe of Desire by Frederick S. Converse, marking the first English language grand opera by an American composer. The one act piece, performed in New York, featured an all American cast and mixed reviews noting ambitious music but limited dramatic impact.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera Company
Frederick S. Converse
Boston
George Edward Barton
Mr. Converse
Mme. Homer
Nada
Bang
Mr. Martin
Tolan
Clarence Whitehill
Sparkes
Snelling
Messrs
Hall
Witherspoon
Tosca at Boston Opera House Sees renewed vigor under Conti
Puccini's La Tosca staged at the Boston Opera House with Miss Dereyne as Tosca and Mr. Constantino as Cavaradossi. Mr. Conti conducts at his best guiding pace and ensemble. encores curtailed to favor the drama. Dereyne shows growing assurance and vitality in her portrayal.
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Mr. Baklanoff
Scorpia
Sardou
Miss Nielsen
Mr. Bourrillon
Puccini
Boston Opera House
Miss Dereyne
Constantino
Cavaradossi
Conti
Insurance men paid grafters and influence
New York March 18. State insurance department head Hotchkiss began an inquiry into fire insurance funds used to influence legislation. Testimony shows 10000 dollars given in early 1901 to various sources. Records point to Phenix Insurance Company and Weed & Kennedy brokers. Five thousand dollars went to the Republican State committee via Reuben N. Fox and the rest to politicians.
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New York
Hotchkiss
State Insurance Department
Phenix Insurance Company
Brooklyn
New York Board of Fire Underwriters
Eirjah R. Kennedy
Weed
Salome Dance Trial Details by Miss Peletreau
Miss Jeanne Peletreau, a French dancer, testified in the Superior Criminal Court that she gave the Salome dance before Governor's staff at the Hotel Somerset. She said her costumes were modest and modeled after Mary Garden and Gertrude Hoffman versions of Salome.
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Jeanne Peletreau
Superior Criminal Court
Salome
Hotel Somerset
Mary Garden
Gertrude Hoffman
Cambridge Dentist Dr Albert J Sawyer Dies at 70
Dr Albert J Sawyer a Cambridge dentist aged 70 died at his Clinton street home after a brief illness pneumonia claimed his life following several days of illness in Cambridge.
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Albert J. Sawyer
Cambridge
Clinton Street
Laundreville
North Cambridge
Albert Laundreville
Massachusetts Avenue
George Laundreville
Victoria Street
Clarendon Hills
West Somerville
Church of Notre Dame de Pitle
Harvey Street
Holy Cross
Malden
Roosevelt Speeds Up Nile Voyage From Wady Halifa
Former President Theodore Roosevelt and his party left Wady Halifa aboard the steamer Ibis and sailed north toward Sheffel along the Nile. He traveled in an American Pullman palace car drawn by a Baldwin locomotive as the journey toward civ ilization continues.
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Wady Halifa
Loudon
Roosevelt
Shellel
Nile
Civilization
Saffa
Chicago
Baldwins
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Tours Sudan Rail corridor echoing Kitchener feat
The former president tours the Khartoum to Atbara railway riding Baldwins from Philadelphia. He praises Kitchener for building a desert railway to beat the Mahdi, notes American engineers advanced the project, and discusses irrigation and future American impact. He receives cablegrams and contemplates a nonpartisan reception in New York.
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Kitchener
Khartoum
Colonel Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
America
Baldwins
Soudan
Roosevelt Near Sinai Roane: Dervishes Defy Captivity
British officers reported to Colonel Roosevelt that nine of ten dervishes pulled from sand holes fought to the death rather than yield to capture by the dogs of Christians. Mirages appeared as a sunset closed a largely incident free day with Roosevelt and family watching.
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Roosevelt
Roosevelt’s European Itinerary Outlined in Detail
Colonel Roosevelt prepares a packed itinerary with arrivals in Rome Paris Berlin and London and extended stays in Paris Berlin Genoa Vienna Budapest Brussels The Hague Christiania Rotterdam Hamburg Copenhagen Stockholm plus a Nile ascent from Wady Halfa to Luxor Assouan Cairo and Naples before continuing to Rome and Spezia for Riviera travels
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Loudon
Roosevelt
Rome
Paris
Berlin
London
Genoa
Vienna
Budapest
Brussels
the Hague
Christiania
Rotterdam
Hamburg
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Kermit
Ethel
Wady Halfa
Khartoum
Spezia
Riviera
Opera Star Leo Slezak to Lift Weights in Town
The Metropolitan Opera Company visits and Leo Slezak, a six foot two Polish tenor, will compete in weight lifting against well known strong men at the temporary Y M C A gym. He notes daily dumbbell training and has recently defeated several professionals in New York. During Boston engagements he will continue workouts at the Y M C A gym.
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Metropolitan Opera Company
Leo Slezak
Slezak
New York
Boston
Fontaine engine ran 152 miles an hour in 1870s trials
N A Milbank of Boston writes that a Fontaine locomotive on the Canada Southern achieved 152 mph during mid 1870s tests. He notes the line length 297 miles with gentle tangents and grades, and that the engine had four paired drivers with top wheels above the lower.
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Fontaine
Canada Southern
F. Norton Finney
California
N. A. Milbank
Boston
Getting Latest Novelties for Easter Selections
Mr Bernard M Wolf of Wolf's My Clothier with Leo Fisher and IL Rinfret traveled to New York for two days to select Easter novelties for the new season.
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Bernard M. Wolf
Wolf's
Hanover
Portland Streets
Leo Fisher
IL. Rinfret
New York
Want Only Bachelors for Tokio
Washington reports Lieutenant Charles M. Austin U S N will abandon a planned bridal tour ending in Tokio to marry Miss Margaret McTeer of Knoxville Tennessee. The Navy Department opposes married men in Tokio and the decision delays his posting while his family hastens a wedding.
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Washington
Knoxville
Charles M. Austin
San Francisco
Tokio
Austin
Tennessee
Margaret Meeer
Tenn
United States
Navy Department
Dolphin
Far East
Miss McTeer
Kellogg Missing After Buffalo Departure Shaped to Boston
Albert F. Kellogg a 22 year old Brooklyn travelling salesman for B.G. PBP Company has vanished after leaving the Hotel Slater in Buffalo. He was last seen February 17 and is believed possibly in Boston with relatives fearing temporary mental aberration. Kellogg is 22, tall about 160 pounds, with a scar on the left forehead and brown hair. He wore a mixed dark suit, gray overcoat, tan shoes, gray underwear, a pleated shirt and derby, carrying a silver watch, gold chain, a bronze inscholastic medal and a T KK J signet ring.
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Albert F. Kellogg
Brooklyn
B. G. Pbp
Mill Supplies
New York City
Boston
Slater
Buffalo
Harvard Soccer Team Faces Columbia in New York
Harvard and Columbia meet in New York this afternoon at the Columbia oval. Harvard arrives with a 1 0 record after a 3 2 victory earlier this season over steamship Tvernfa.
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Harvard
Columbia
New York
Columbia Oval
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