The Broken Season in Boston Theatres This Week
The Boston theatre week features Park Theatre's Golden Wedding revival and Bowdoin Square's James ONeill engagement. Also listed are Monte Cristo at Bowdoin, Span of Life at Boston, and Shore Acres at Boston Museum with last week run. Tremont stages The Middleman with Willard cast. Grand Opera House presents The Octoroon with stock company. and a wide circuit from Portland to New Haven includes Hoyt's Temperance Town and Park's Golden Wedding opening night with Fusileer Veterans.
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James O'Neill
Hoyt’s
Park Theatre
New England
Portland
Lawrence
Lowell
Lynn
Maverhill
Fall River
New Bedford
Brockton
Taunton
Providence
Manchester
Newport
Worcester
Portsmouth
Bellows Falls
Springfield
Hartford
New Haven
Shore Acres
Boston Museum
Boston
Penobscot
Franklin Blythe
Harry Brown
Tippecanoe Tappington Biliver
Charles A. Burke
Philip Fairfield
H. G. Lonsdale
Thomas Topack
Raymond Hitchcock
Elgonitus O’fly
Barney Reynolds
Sailor Bill
Charles A. Studwell
Janette
Florrie Bates
Robert
May Stembler
Foxy
Inez Crabtree
Charlotte Comstock
Grace Ogden
Camelia Blythe
Emma Salisbury
Boucicault
Lillian Masterson
Paul
Yellow Boy
Miss Masterson
Little Lord Fauntleroy
George W. Wilson
Museum
Conn
Shaughran
Wilson
James O’neill
James A. Herne
Nathl
Berry
Shore-Acres
Ceorce W. Wilson
Social Calendar Highlights For May Events
Readers are invited to submit brief notices of forthcoming social events. On Monday May 22 a reception for Mrs. Frank T. Partridge at 455 Beacon Street runs 4 to 6 and 8 to 10. A reception for Mrs. W. H. Lyon follows at 519 Beacon Street.
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Frank T. Partridge
Beacon Street
W. H. Lyon
Notable Women Across Nations And Roles Featured
The piece highlights diverse women including Princess Marie Eulalie noted for grace, Mrs. William Walter Phelps who has crossed the Atlantic 65 times, Elizabeth Cady Stanton nearing 77 with ongoing vigor, Effie Henderson a barrister at a Bloomington banquet, and Mme. Modjeska guiding a large family of relatives. It also notes Roumania’s Queen Carmen Sylva recovering, McGill College’s coed BA graduates and female medalists, Emeline Prescott of Maine praised for bold fashion ideas, and her self made suits with numerous pockets.
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Marie Eulalie
William Walter Phelps
Germany
Atlantic
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bloomington
Belgium
Effie Henderson
Mme. Modjeska
Roumania
Carmen Sylva
Prescott
Woman and Her Political Peers painted for fair
Mrs. Henrietta Briggs Wall created an allegorical canvas titled Woman and Her Political Peers. It centers a life sized Frances E. Willard portrait with figures an idiot convict Indian and an insane person. The penitentiary warden refused to lend inmates for the suffrage study.
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Henrietta Briggs Wall
Frances E. Willard
First Lady Itemizes Gown For Mrs Cleveland Visit
Mrs Cleveland wore a redfern gown described as gray fancy wool with black and white braid trim. The dress featured a flounced skirt, braided tunic, cuirass bodice and matching revers sleeves. A surprise party for the first lady is planned, with speculation Ruth may be jealous.
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Cleveland
Redfern
Ruth
General Booth names daughter to succeed him in Salvation Army
General Booth declares his daughter La Marechale Booth-Clibbon to succeed him as head of the Salvation Army. He cites Queen Victoria as example of capable female leadership, asserting that women are the best rulers and that his mission to save souls must continue after his death.
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Shuil
Style tricks to alter perceived height by hats and ceilings
A brief note on fashion and interior design suggests a small hat or bonnet makes a short woman look taller, while a tall girl benefits from a large dark hat. The analogy compares this to lowering a room’s feel with a sky frieze and white ceiling or shrinking a lofty salon with a dark frieze and heavy moulding.
Plucky Wheelwomen Tour Britain by Bicycle
Miss Carrie L Hodsdon of Lawrence and Miss Edith M Kenniston of Concord sail from Boston for a five months bicycle tour of Great Britain. They visit London Birmingham Sheffield Stratford-on-Avon Warwick Leamington Windsor and many historic sites with letters of introduction and notebooks for news.
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Carrie L. Hodsdon
Lawrence
Edith M. Kenniston
Concord
N. H
Boston
Great Britain
British Isles
Patrick A. Collins
London
Birmingham
Sheffield
Stratford-on-Avon
Warwick
Leamington
Eton
Windsor
Stoke Pogis
Gray
Haverhill
Gurteen
Old Boston
Lincolnshire
Saratoga
Nobleman seeks wife imitates novel heroine
A German publishers ad urged a wealthy nobleman to find a wife resembling the heroine of a popular novel. Many marriageable women bought the book to compare themselves, boosting sales immensely.
Worth Embraces 1830 Style with Balloon Sleeves
Worth, the great Parisian milliner, nearly abandons empire in favor of the 1830 style. Sleeves feature balloon form at the top with lace frills forming capes and epaulettes. Skirts are close at the front and sides with fullness at the back and a moderate length.
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Worth
Overdrawn Account Prompted Prompt Note From Bank
A brief verse recalls a woman receiving a bank notice about overdraft. She writes a regretful note, but delays attention and uses a check from her own book to settle the matter, as recounted by L. Brewer in Vogue.
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In Vogue
Marriages Recorded in Lexington Fayville and City Notices
In Lexington on May 13, by Rev C A Staples, Fred B Lund wed Zoe M Griffing. In Fayville on May 11, by Rev EF L Hopkins, Daniel H Noyes wed Hattie Bigelow of Marlboro. In this city on May 18, by Rev G L Blackwell, Norman F Storms wed Ida E Sparrow.
Obituaries from Greater Boston Area May Deaths
Notices list multiple deaths in Massachusetts and New Hampshire including John S Adams at West Roxbury aged 69 9 months Lawrence Comerford at East Cambridge aged 51 Sarah E Clark at Beverly daughter of late Reed I Clark Londonderry NH Rachel Knowles at Lynn aged 76 3 18 Edward F McCarthy East Boston aged 18 8 6 funeral details given for Edward F McCarthy and wreath of relatives requested Lawrence Martin at Somerville aged 75 Harriet Meserve widow of General George P Meserve at Jackson NH aged 90.
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East Boston
Edward F
Timothy
Ellen M’carthy
Meridian Street
Church of the Sacred Heart
Brooks Street
Martin
Somerville
Lawrence Martin
Meserve
Jackson, N. H
Harriet
George P. Meserve
Theatrical Week Picks At Boston Venues In 1900s Style
Anticipated special theatre parties rise from New York trial buzz as The Golden Wedding draws big attendance. The Dog Spy, Leonzo Brothers, and trained dogs headline at the Howard Atheneum with Mme Percival's Lady Orchestra after a strong week. Lwan of Life extends at Boston Theatre, plus O Grady's Awful Night at Austin's Palace. Monte Cristo revival continues at Lyceum with O Neill's curated company. Bodily Freaks and vaudeville acts fill Tremont row venues while Lynwood and Grand Museum stage drama and variety acts.
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Lothrop
Howard Atheneum
Mme. Percival
Leonzo Brothers
Austin
Palace Theatre
Snelbaker
Austin & Stone
Tremont Row
Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes
Charles Fechter
W. H. Pasco
Albert
Kate Fletcher
Carconte
Josephine Plows-Day
May Dana
John Stetson’s
Company
Bos
Evangelistic Association Begins Sixth Annual Meeting in Boston
The Evangelistic Association of New England opens its sixth annual meeting and conference at Park Street Church tomorrow morning with forenoon to evening sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. Most talks occur at Park Street Church except Tuesday evening at Eliot Congregational Church Roxbury. Prominent evangelistic workers will speak including George H. Slade of Providence on evangelistic work among English speakers abroad. Frank Bickford from India will describe meetings with English troops. Mrs. Cole-Bowen Hornibrook, recently from Paris, will share about Miss De Breen’s evangelistic work with a Baron’s daughter.
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The
Evangelistic Association of
Frank Bickford
India
Cole-Bowen Hornibrook
Paris
France
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Mr. Willard
Cyrus Blenkarn
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the Park Theatre
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Starry Is Rose
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Marry Budworth
Marion & Belle
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Howard
Grand Museu Cor
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Realists
WITS
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