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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1899
Page
5
Black Kellar opened a week long engagement at Hollis Street Theatre presenting sleight of hand experiments and spiritism feats. Mrs Kellar assists in optical illusions while Mrs Wellar reads minds and a decapitation in the blue room astonishes audiences. Memorial Day matinee planned at the Museum.
The 200th Boston performance at the Tremont Theatre delighted a large audience with Mr. Var net and Mr. Thomson delivering bright music and witty scenes. Duff's company was praised for steady work and the cast including Lennox, Sadler, Carle, and Ashley received strong notices. New songs were hits, and a special holiday matinee will replace Wednesday. Tickets forecast demand for next week’s Fer minte engagement with Wilson, Russell, and Seabrooke listed.
Adelaide and Leon Herrmann conclude their Boston Theatre engagement with matinees and evening performances. The final New England season ends as audiences applaud sleight of hand exploits and Mine Herrmann’s dances. The program includes palming and black art and closes with the trunk mystery once introduced by Alexander Herrmann.
Over twelve weeks at the Boston Museum Miss Allen has become a major star with a record run unmatched by recent Boston seasons. The audience filled the venue nightly showing enthusiasm akin to a debut, as Miss Allen presented broad emotional range in the dramatic scenes of The Christian.
Two performances of the Black Patt Troubadours today at the Grand Opera House close the season. Last night’s show drew large crowds with strong applause for cakewalks dancing and Black Patti operatic selections.
Last evening in Boston the Wholesome production Muldoons Picnic returned to the boards to an enraptured audience. Thomas P. Thomas starred as the irrepressible Michael Muldoon with strong support from John McVicker James McDonnell Sadie Falconer and Mamie Harnish. The show runs one week before Oliver Twist for the Jay Kunt benefit showcases Bill Sykes played by Mr Hunt on June 5.
The Castle Square Theatre drew an enthusiastic crowd last evening as the third week of A Temperance Town played to packed audiences. The satirical comedy from the Castle Square players continues to draw demand for seats, with matinee and evening performances announced for the entire week.
Hilda Thomas highlights her comic opera voice in Miss Ambition at Keith’s, delivering multiple characters with sharp timing and clean humor. Milton and Dollie Nobles charm in Bilgeville Junction, Jim Morton tops in ragtime comedy, Mazuz and Mazett perform The Tramp and the Brakeman, and Shelly and Ashby plus Harrigan present new acrobatics and tricks.
Bud Snyder the trick bicycle rider and straight vaudeville acts wowed spectators. The Biograph set a local record this week. A parade review for the Governor showcased three school regiments. A street car fender with safety operations on the Boston and Newton Street railway also featured.
The Howard Atheneum presents a high class variety show headlined by the Royal Burlesquers with an up to date burlesque closing number An Alderman's Election. Featured acts include Cosmopolitan Trio Will Galpin Adele Reno and Arthur Yule plus Irish sketch Tenley and Simonds and more. The Boston Newsboy and Bootblack Quintet and many performers complete the programme. The performance starts at 12 o'clock today.
An excellent production of The Gold King at the Grand Theatre on Washington and Dover last evening features Louis Green in the lead. The entire cast from Bowdoin Square Theatre impressed, with praised settings and strong audience applause for Farley and Hunt. The show runs one week with daily matinees.
Last evening marked bieyere night at Music Hall with a large delegation of wheelmen in attendance. Tonight's program features patriotic selections including The Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa and The Runaway Girl Runaway Girl overtures, plus Rob in Hood and Tabasco.
Johnnie Jones and sister lead juvenile crowd to welcome famed IJdiliputian actors in Atlantic theater of dwarfs. Fifteen diminutive performers thrill audiences with singing, dancing, and feats. Webb sisters, midget eccentrics, and various famous acts delight morning and afternoon shows. Memorial Day crowds prompt extra museum shows as doors open at nine.
The Sporty Widows' burlesque company staged two travesties of merit at the Lyceum yesterday. Opening sketch A Hot Old Time introduces company members with dance and song, featuring Baker and Lynn and Jack Gardner. Marie Rogers opened the olio with popular coon songs.
Last evening featured the Gardners and the Wright sisters delivering musical comedy and dancing with applause. Udell and Pierce offered Italian opera with bold vocal exercise, while the two-scene farce Mixed Ale provided lively specialties and pretty costumes. Next week the Parisian Belles will furnish the entertainment.
The Huntington avenue resort, popular with holiday crowds the past three seasons, presents Torepaugh's Yankee Farmer James B. MackS entertainment and an effective program by Director Collins. The First Regiment Band, miniature railroad, ponies and donkeys, an open-air restaurant, elaborate lights, and a ten cent admission from 1 to 11 p m greet visitors today.
Norumbega Park debuts its third season featuring an extended zoological garden with bears, wolves, lynx, and more. St Augustine's Band performs from 10 am to 8 pm, London Vaudeville company in the theatre, electric fountain at 9 45, and a new women's cottage. Manager Bow offers fresh lobsters and steamed clams at the improved restaurant.
Yesterday the doors opened to a vast throng at an amusement venue in Boston for the six days’ female bicycle racing contest between the White Flyers of Boston and the Royal Crowns of New York. Miss la Blanche attempted to break the world record amid an exhibition with other feats by Decobra Alexandria and Vernellos magic acts.
Pain presents a grand fireworks display at Combination Park Medford this evening. The grand stand offers ideal viewing for a show including a recreation of Dewey's ship Olympia the Falls of Niagara 400 feet long and other features. The program begins at 8 o'clock with the St Clair brothers horizontal bar act and Ed Mosher performing bicycle tricks along with additional themed fireworks acts.
A big week of burlesque and specialty at the Palace Theatre presents Mrs Plumbs Poarding House and the burlesque A Nights Pleasure. Manager Waldron touts a first class company delivering palatable entertainment.
The article praises a talented variety show featuring Vera Harte's Waiting and strong acts by Bessie Taylor Cessy Grant Rita Durand and Cora White. Kenna delivers a bright monologue while Taylor and Julienne perform popular coon songs. Nolan and Durand elicit laughs with a comedy sketch and Hickey Nelson showcase acrobatics. Smoking concerts remain popular.
James B. McMahon vice president of the N. K. Fairbank Company states the firm is not involved with a leading soap manufacturers' combination. He cites freely rising tallow costs and slow price transmission as reasons for potential future price increases. The company emphasizes its enduring independence from any soap trust affiliations.
Four new smallpox cases were found in the Cyr family on Lindsey Street. Mills workers north of the city are ordered vaccinated, seven houses closed, with 105 people in quarantine and seventeen affected overall. Eight severe cases are on record.
Ambulance from Police Station 13 Jamaica Plain, driven by Patrolman Moore with Patrolman Donovan aboard, responding to 158 Green Street, collided with a team owned by Charles H. Whittlesey on Green near Oakland. Moore and Donovan were thrown, the ambulance overturned, horse injured, Moore with broken ribs, Donovan unhurt. Both officers sent home.
A letter from St. Michael's reports a request to Captain Walker in Tacoma to dispatch soldiers to Cape Nome to restore order amid reports of claim jumping and potential bloodshed in the district.
A hand drawn 98 page book catalogs resorts, hotels, and boarding houses accessible by the Fitchburg railroad with excursion rates to destinations in Massachusetts New Hampshire Vermont New York and Canada. Free from company agents or by mail for a 2 cent stamp to J. R. Watson Boston.
At yesterday's Board of Health meeting Albert E. Sherman was appointed to head Gallops Island, succeeding William Clark who moves to Long Island. The appointment takes effect June 1.
Invitation lists 10 oclock music in multiple rooms including the Beacon Orchestra and Tufts College groups. Notables Hon John D. Long Hon Roger Wolcott and Charles W Eliot to attend. Baldwin as president and George Peirce as secretary invite clergy laity and the public to the event.
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