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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
7
The Boston Opera House outlines its fourth season in a detailed prospectus received by subscribers. The 18 week season opens Monday evening November 25 with 72 regular performances plus Saturday night popular-price shows and Sunday concerts moved to Sunday afternoons.
Josef Urban arrives as stage director bringing advanced production ideas. The Boston Opéra Company lists 21 newcomers and familiar stars including Hempel and Schumann-Heink. Seven new works join the repertoire with Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann and Mozart Don Giovanni among the titles slated for the season.
Louis Aubert’s La Foret Bleue and Martha to be sung in English as the orchestra and ballet reach new heights. Mesdames Galli and Cecil Tryan lead the ballet with Cammerano of Italy directing, assisted by Maria Paparello. A new Ravel ballet Adelaide debuts in America amid expanded Sunday concerts and ambitious chorus and symphony works. Frequent artist exchanges with major cities continue, with anticipated visits from Amato Burran Caruso Goritsz Urlus and others, though guarantees to subscribers are not assured.
Charles Sumner Bird, Progressive candidate for Governor, spoke at rallies in Ware Palmer Spencer and Charlton before ending in Southbridge. He praised the movement's earnest enthusiasm and noted widespread personal and financial sacrifices by leaders supporters and even farmers and lawyers who faced losses or blocked advancement for Roosevelt supporters.
Massillon Ohio reports that three men were killed and three more injured when a party of six pedestrians was struck by a Wheeling and Lake Erie passenger train near Harmon. One injury is described as fatal. Investigators expect to determine why the group was on the tracks.
Boston bankers from all institutions attended the Bank Officers' Association party at the Majestic Theatre last night to see Tuttle Boy Blue. The packed auditorium and lavish lobby decorations marked probably the season’s largest bankers party with Otis Harlan and cast poking fun at bankers in the opening scene and bouquets given to many principals.
Hobart Australia Oct 17 it is believed that 45 miners perished in the North Mount Lyell mine near here after a fire broke out Saturday rescuers race to reach lower levels as trapped workers have had no food water or fresh air since the blaze little hope remains for their safety
The Rev W W Iliffe opened a Progressive meeting at Brookline town hall with a prayer for Col Roosevelt's speedy recovery. Bradley Gilman a Harvard classmate gave an illustrated lecture on The Life and Character of Theodore Roosevelt.
Eunice Cullen found boots under a couch in the Milton Telephone Exchange rest room. She alarmed coworkers who relayed the sighting to police, but analysis showed the boots belonged to 13 year old Albert Weeks who had crawled under the couch to sleep during his mother’s work.
Abraham Slutsky, 24, of 35 Cooper Street West Hind, was seized at Washington and Essex by Inspectors Gaddis and Burr. Gaddis identified him as the man previously arrested in Boston for a $1850 New Bedford burglary and a default warrant led to his capture after jumping bail. He will be sent back this morning.
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