Brief Opera Season Opens With Madame Butterfly
The opening Belasco Theatre bill of the Boston Grand Opera Company features Puccini's Madame Butterfly with Mme Tamaki Miura. The gala includes the Egyptian Ballet with Pavlova, Volinina, and Ballet Russe. Supporting cast Riccardo Martin and Thomas Chalmers earns praise for vocal and dramatic prowess.
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Puccini
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Mme
Tamaki Miura
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Luigini
Anna Pavlova
Alexandre Yolinina
Ballet Russe
Mme. Miura
Riccardo Martin
Thomas Chalmers
Elvira Leveront
Mme Miura
Cho-Cho-San
Volcen
Lucia
Miura
Pinkerton
Susuki
Klvira Leveron
Marta Lara
Kate Tinkerton
Paolo Ananian
Romeo Boscacci
Giorgio Puliti
Agide Jacchia
Mile - Paviova
Pura Orientaliem
Mile Pavlova
M. Volinina
Delibea
Society
Hoston Grand Opera Company
Paviona Ballet Russe
Helen Brewart
Edgar Woods
Marjorie Critten
George Oakley Totten
Col
D. B. Devers
Edson Bradley Hied
Justice
Mahlon Pitney
Magoon
George Washington University Dramatic Society Delivers First Plays
George Washington University students staged three plays at the Pythian Temple as a debut for dramatics. Frank H. Myers led the effort with “An Incident from Les Miserables” “Dr Cure All” and “The Modern English” featuring an emergent troupe. Proceeds benefited the society. Officers include Myers president and Misa Blanchard vice president. Music by the GWU orchestra conducted by David Davis. Dancing followed the performances.
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Pythien Temple
Ife
George Washington University
Frank H. Myers
Victor Hugo
Dr. Cure All
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Mr. Myers
Ines Ryan
Mabel Blanchard
Solomon Glutch
Brof. McNemar
The
Mr Myers
Misa Blanchard
Lenora Koltan
George Nordlinger
George Washington University Orchestra
David Davis
Daheing
Mrs. Mason Dies in Baltimore Sanatorium
Mrs. Robert F. Mason died in a Baltimore sanitarium near Baltimore Thura aay evening. She was the youngest daughter of former Chief Justice Melville W. Janel and will be buried in Charlottesville, Va. Survived by two children, Robert Mason Jr. and Melville Fuller Mason. The body to be taken to Charlottesville for burial.
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Baltimore
Charlottesville
Cordova
Fanny Fuller
Chicago
Cleveland
Robert Bason,, Jr
Melville Fuller Mazon
Charlottesvilles
Paderewski In Concert At National Theater
Ignace Paderewski gave a large audience a piano recital featuring Schubert Fantasia, Couperin pieces, Daquin Le Coucou, Schumann Etude Symphonique, Chopin Etudes Nos. 16 7 and 11, Opus 25, and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody. The reviewer criticized lack of vitality and noted misplayed notes and odd pedaling, though Couperin selections were praised and an encore was demanded.
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National Theater
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Daquin
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Chopin
Liszt
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Bach
South American Delegates Arrive For Pan American Congress
Twenty seven delegates from Paraguay Uruguay Argentina Colombia and Brasil arrived in New York aboard the Vestris to attend the second pan American scientific congress in Washington beginning December 27. Dr Vidal Brazil director of Instituto de Buzantin Sao Paulo will demonstrate venom experiments seeking antidotes while presenting 30 venomous snake varieties to display before the congress and later to the New York Zoo. Colombian delegates include Rafael Alvarez Tullio Ospina and Miguel Triana. The party met by American Minister to Uruguay Robert Jeffry and War Assistant Secretary Henry Breckinridge with Dr Samuel Goldschmidt of the Carnegie Institute. President Wilson's recent message was praised as strengthening Colombia United States trade ties.
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Washington
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Robert BH
Jeffry
Henry 3. Breckinridge
Samuel Goldschmidt
New York Zoological Gardens
Rafal] Alvarez
Tullio Ospina
Miguel Triana
Wilson
Abe
Bleiam
Miss Gladys Mackay Smith Engaged to Pennsylvanian
Special to The Washington Post from Philadelphia reports the engagement of Miss Gladys Mackay Smith to a Pennsylvania gentleman. The Mackay Smith sisters are prominent in Washington society, daughters of the late Bishop coadjutor of Pennsylvania, with strong philanthropic ties and a noted social circle including diplomats. A prior rumor tying Miss Mackay Smith to a German naval attaché was denied.
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Philadelphia
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Washington
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Watkine
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Virginia
St. John's Church
Sixteenth Street
Mige
Helen Mackey-Smith
Gladys Maskay-Smith
Boy-Hol
Germany
No Suffrage Leaders Debate at National Conference
The National Woman's Party and Congressional Union clashed over affiliation policy as Carrie Chapman Catt was elected president. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw received an honorary life presidency amid calls for stronger defense and a patriotic rally featuring the film The Battle Cry of Peace.
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Nevada
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Massachusetts
Barton F. Jenks
Rhode Island
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Connecticut
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Anna Howard Shaw
Medill McCormick
Chicago
Raymond Brown
New York
Carrie Chepman Catt
Hannah Patterson
Stanley McCormick
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United States
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Memorial Continental Hall
Washington
Basket of Big Georgian Pecans and Verses Gift to Mrs. Galt
Special to The Washington Post from Atlanta details a wedding gift sent to Mrs. Galt by Confederate veteran Frank Glazier. The parcel includes a pine needle basket with a Capitol-shaped beaker, edges woven with red white and blue Confederate ribbons, and lines about Dixie friendship. Also mentioned is a horn cane carved by a convict at Atlanta Federal Prison for President Wilson, to be engraved and sent to the White House.
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Atlanta
Parcel Post
Washington
Frank Glazier
Dixie
Glasier
Wilson
Ivers
L Springer
United States Prison
Presidente
White House
President and Mrs Galt Tie the Knot at Bride's Home
President and Mrs Galt marry in a private ceremony at the home of the bride to be. The guest list includes family members from Bolling and Galt lines, Dr Cary Grayson and Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, with security led by Maj. Pullman and Chief Flynn’s police detail to safeguard the event.
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William H. Bolling
Misa Berths Bolling
Alexander H. Galt
Matthew H. Maury
Anniston, Ale
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Richard Wilmer Bolling
Julian B. Bolling
This City
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Minn
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van Dyke
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District of
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Los Angeles
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Central Ofice
Galt
Admiral Ludlow Writes Own Epitaph In His Will
Special to The Washington Post New York Dec 17 Rear Admiral Nicoll Ladiow U S N who died December 9 at the Hotel Gotham directed in his will that his body be cremated and ashes placed in a churchyard repository Then he ordered a tombstone inscription noting his Civil War and Spanish War service and many posts of honor He left large sums to public institutions including Emma Willard School Pauls School and the University Club among others and bequeathed real estate to his brother Edwin Ludlow while ordering his uniforms destroyed.
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Concord
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Washington
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Death of Mrs Hutchins in Iowa and city funeral
Mrs Margaret C Hutening wife of Dr Eaware B Autehhine of Iowa and mother of Mrs Judson C Welliver of this city died here on Thursday last. The funeral will be held today at Wright's chapel 1387 Tenth street northwest. The service will be private.
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Eaware B. Autehhine
Iowa
Judson C. Welliver
Tenth Street
Drexel Under Fire Over United States Love to England
A London telegram quoted Anthony Drexel deriding America as a rotten place and planning residence in France. His estranged wife’s affidavit in New York chancery court cites the remarks as part of a dispute over alimony and potential divorce proceedings in Paris. She claims he now asserts French citizenship and favors life in Europe while he denounces his homeland.
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New York
London
New York World
America
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Philadelphia
Mme
Anne Ve St. Cyr
James Henry Smith
William Rhinelander
Chancery Court
Drekel
Paris
Mme, de &J. Cyr
England
Eingllah Stangarda
Eae
Communion Services at St Patrick's Church Schedule
Tomorrow the Sodality of the Children of Mary at St Patrick's Church holds 8 o'clock mass and occupies the main aisle. At 4 p m they gather for a monthly radiating of their office with a short sermon by Rev James A Smyth and benediction. High mass at 11 p m by Rev M P J Egan and another sermon by Rev John M McNamara. Reverend Russell presides at 7 30 p m for Good Shepherd tribute and a sermon after answering questions from the month’s question box. Sanctuary choir directed by R Mills Gilby sings and League of Good Shepherd assists in Tum Tum Ergo during benediction.
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St Patrick's Church
James A. Smyth
P J. Egan
Elevator Fire Destroys Cleveland Elevator Company Facility
A fire in Sheldon Illinois destroyed the Cleveland Elevator Company's facility. Estimated loss is $250,000. The elevator had a capacity of 508,000 bushels of oats and nearly as much corn.
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Cleveland Elevator Company
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