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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1897
Page
5
Mrs S D Tichon of 108 Kendall Avenue Boston reports severe pain swelling and limited mobility before using Munyon's Female Cure. She credits the remedies including Nerve Cure Dyspepsia Cure and Munyon's Cathartics with noticeable relief and calls them cures for her conditions.
A Munyon's Remedies advertisement claims a separate cure for every disease sold by all druggists. It asserts that anyone can become their own doctor and that thousands of homes rely on Munyon's Remedies as their sole medical physician.
Twenty one Bowdoin College sophomores were suspended for the rest of the term by President Hyde after a hazing incident Friday night. Several suspended athletes were to play prominent roles in the upcoming exhibition and indoor meet tomorrow night, fueling campus unrest.
Nat Goodwin presents Madeline Lucette Ryley's An American Citizen at the Hollis with Beresford Cruger by Goodwin. The play features witty dialogue and a lingering touch of pathos as love, money, and loyalty collide. Maxine Elliott shines with Beatrice Carew while supporting players enhance the ensemble. The run runs two weeks with Julia Marlowe and Hoyt's company to follow.
The Boston Theatre closes its week with a near capacity crowd for Jack and the Beanstalk. The show attracts wide local praise with Madge Lessing as Jack and strong performances from Nellie Lynch Hubert Wilke and Ross Snow keeping audiences engaged nightly.
The Boston Theatre will present In Old Kentucky next week. The drama is praised as a top money winner and a creditable picturesque play with a vivid Kentucky life portrayal. Managers claim the Lexington race track scenes are the most realistic yet staged and promise a Southern plantation pickaninny band as a novel feature. the company travels intact from New York's Academy of Music.
The Two Little Vagrants made a return to Tremont Theatre after an initial city debut this season. Minnie Dupree and Jessie Busley lead as Claude and Fan Tan with E. J. Ratcliffe as George d Armont and Dove Davidson as Le Renard. Amelia Bingham debuts with strong emotional acting. The company keeps the same cast except for one newcomer and the Seine locks scene drew enthusiastic response. Show runs this and next week.
Last evening at Bowdoin Square Theatre H Grattan Donnelly’s Darkest Russia drew a large audience with strong acting by Mme Carina Jordan Miss Selina Herman and Lida R Ellis and solid direction by M J Jordan. A second show at Park Theatre featured Hoyt’s A Stranger in New York to a packed house with lively comedy brisk dialogue catchy music and standout performances by Harry Conor Miss Jansen Miss Millard the Angeles sisters Nellie Butler and George Beans among others.
The opera Carmen returned for a week at Castle Square Theatre with an enlarged orchestra and familiar performers. Clara Lane, J. K. Murray, Martin Pache, Addie Norwood head the cast with strong portrayals and applause for solo work. Car men roles to be alternated by Lane and Ladd while Don Jose alternates between Pache and Clark.
William Gillette's Secret Service enters its third week at the Museum with meticulous, almost superreal details. The allusive realism extends to doorbells and the silent, brisk carriage of twenty plus soldiers and messengers, a costly but praised artistic choice.
The Columbia hosts a weeklong engagement of Sutton Vane s Humanity directed by Joseph Grismer and Phebe Davies. A large audience praised Jay Williams as the tender Hebrew moneylender and Gus Mortimer as the Irish dragon. Next week The Great Diamond Robbery features Mme Janauschek and Mrs Annie Yeamans.
Fel and Grau company begins performances at the Mechanics Building on April 5 with season ticket holders expected to fill the audience. Single tickets go on sale at Tremont Theatre on March 30 for five nights and one matinee featuring Siegfried Faust Lohengrin Carmen and Martha with a final Saturday matinee to be announced.
A Thursday benefit at the Boston Theatre supports Union General Hospital the first public solicitation in its history. Seventy beds accommodate the most serious cases which are admitted without refuse, aiding relief of the suffering poor. Funds aim to provide free beds for visitors in need, with special appeal to the theatrical profession for donations.
The Sarah Fuller Home in West Medford announces Edward Robinson's repeat of his entertaining and instructive Viterbo lecture. Patronesses, led by state philanthropic ladies, invite attendance at Association Hall on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock for the forthcoming entertainment.
The elite of Boston gathered at the Tuileries yesterday afternoon in response to invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Hubbard. Miss Marguerite Hall traveled from New York to sing, and the program pleased the ultra-fashionable four hundred. After the concert an elaborate tea followed in the banquet hall.
Last evening Rev. T DeWitt Talmage addressed a large audience on Peculiar People. The program featured an organ concert by Mr Ryder, with Sousa's Band scheduled for April 26 including an extra Tremont Temple afternoon show.
Audiences packed Keith's yesterday for Handsome Bob Hilliard and his company in The Littlest Girl adapted from Richard Harding Davis. Albee’s staged setting impressed, with strong performances by Hilliard and Holland. The vaudeville lineup featured Grais’s donkey act, European acrobats, Caroline Hull’s songs, and Ned Wayburn’s acts among others, plus new biograph views.
Immense crowds enjoyed a two afternoon and evening program headlined by Miss Leoni Lewis in her Howard debut. The bill featured McAvoy and May, Miss May’s wooden shoe, John Flynn and Maud Walker, Bernard Dyllyn the baritone, and acts from William Kaye and Ada Henry to Catherine Rowe Palmer and Rex Forster. A highlight was the farcical That Howard Banquet with a dozen performers and a wine influenced impersonation by Palmer.
The World at the Grand Opera House last evening delivered a notable performance. Review notes strong acting and stagecraft across an engaging presentation with audience appreciation.
The World remains a Boston favorite with a strong tale and expansive scenery. Campbell stars as Sir Clement Huntingford while Lytell earns praise as Mary Blythe and Moss Jewell’s Hebrew diamond merchant adds unctuous humor. The production features dynamic escapes and a praised revival of stage groupings. The vaudeville bill includes Gallati’s monkey troupe Abacco the acrobat and Columbia Quartet among others.
Last night at the West Newton street roller rink a big turnout anticipated the carnival on Wednesday. Skaters competed in nine prize classes with six prizes per class plus a silver souvenir for every costume. The program features orange and obstacle races two skating races two bicycle races and an exhibition by Professor C L Franks world champion starting at 9.
The Boston Zoo showcases Joe the educated orang utan in a staged tropical Borneo hall. Chiquita the Cuban atom draws similar attention as visitors flood in. Also on display are Don Cesar the cinnamon bear, a leopard from India, another chimpanzee, and rare monkeys.
Proprietor Lothrop offers Kidnapped at the New Grand with Kinzie Higgins as Louis Rhinegold and Martha Conway as Grace Bay brook in a strong cast. Immense list of performers including Imogene Comer, Grant and Norton, Josie Harvey, Johnny Quigley, Frances Harrison and more, praised for scenery and variety.
The museum drew about 12 000 visitors as crowds lined up from opening to closing to see Big Ben the largest snake ever shown. Tickets faced repeated buy limits amid surge demand while gorilla Gumbo drew record crowds in earlier exhibits.
Spectators watched Big Ben the 30 foot reptile as keepers struggled to approach the glass cage. Col Stone plans to tour the West with the show while other acts including Enoch the swimmer and a Yokohama gymnast troupe entertain a crowd at the museum.
The Palace Theatre presents Harry Martell's South Before the War company a robust cast of over forty Black performers and several whites. The program aims for broad laughter with a hint of pathos and features plantation scenes cakewalks buck and wing dancing and a grand cakewalk finale led by Billy Williams Frank A. Howard and a cast including Katie Carter Symonds Rastus Pauline Cottrill and the Shattuck Buckeye quartets.
Large audiences greeted the new features at the Nickelodeon yesterday. Manager Straffin surpassed previous efforts with stage and curio hall attractions. Mlle Aimee illusion drew crowds while a potato race, doughnut contest, sparring exhibition, contortionist act, and magic feats entertained. The bill included Kittie Howard’s minstrels and a New York specialty company backed by Walker and Kittie Randolph with a cast featuring Ran dolph, Billy Keiley, Lillie Frye, Eva Reid, Joe Harrison, Edwards and Morrison, Ada La Roux and others.
The Rev Ralph E Connor of the Universalist Church in Waltham denounced prize whist as gambling. Led by Mrs Kate Brown and the Waltham Woman's Christian Temperance Union they urged the Waltham Woman's Club to protest prize whist. The WCTU issued a manifesto warning of cheating temptations and harm to home duties and virtuous development.
A man named Jones discharged as a suspicious character in Providence is believed in New Bedford to be the thief who stole watches valued at $400 from H. B. DeWolff in that city eight months earlier.
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