Romany Opera Company to Headline Keith's Summer Season
July and August at Keith's feature the Romany Opera Company replacing The Fadettes. Twenty five members include Florence Quinn and Mary Obey with a three quarters hour program from Gounod Faust. Walton’s Waldhorn Quartette and Heim trumpet soloist join, plus The Three Rubes and Dolan Lenhart travesties.
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Keith’s
Fadettes
Florence Quinn
Mary Obey
Alicia Desmond
Leila Bertoni
Flora Tileri
Alexander Bevan
Ettore Campana
George Nathansen
Walter Buchanan
Marcello Rosemini
Giorgi Scotti
Gounod
Faust
Miss Obey
Marguerite
Miss Quinn
Waldhorn
Gustav F. Heim
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bowers, Walters and Crocker
Three Rubes
James F. Dolan
Ida Lenhart
Winthrop High School Graduation Honors Class of 1908
Graduation exercises were held last Thursday in the high school assembly hall. The program featured a class gift bust of Homer, numerous choral and instrumental numbers, debates, salutatory and valedictory addresses, a class prophecy, and the presentation of diplomas by Dr. Orville E. Johnson.
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Winthrop High School
Homer
Dorothy Dean
Edith K. Hubbard
Orville E. Johnson
Helen Young
Charles Henry
Klaw & Erlanger announce Little Nemo in Slumberland film plans
Theatrical producers Klaw and Erlanger engage Master Gabriel to play Little Nemo in the big cartoon spectacle Little Nemo in Slumberland to be produced in New York in early fall. The $100000 production, the largest in a decade, has a book by Harry B. Smith and music by Victor Herbert, with three acts and ten scenes. John Murray, appointed press representative, succeeds Wilbur M Bates who resigned ill. Murray, Princeton graduate, has held roles in theater and journalism prior to this post.
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Messrs
Klaw & Erlanger
Gabriel
Little Nemo
New York
Harry B. Smith
Victor Herbert
John
Murray Press
Wilbur
New York World Press
Hearst
Chicago
Maclyn Arbuckle
St. Lawrence River
Ogdensburg
Adeline Genee
Coppelia
Mlle
Genee
London
Mile
Dora Bright
Lillian Russell
Asbury Park
Metropolitan
Liberty Theatre
Lodge of Revere Achieves Double Victory in League Play
Neptune defeated Dorchester 5-2 and Middlesex 5-4 to sweep both games. The wins keep Neptune atop the standings, with strong offense fueling the performances.
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Lodge
Revere
Neptune
Dorchester
Middlesex
Five Straight for Crescents Defeat Malden-Quincy 3 2
The Crescent Association earned their fifth straight win at Crescent Field Saturday by beating Malden-Quincy 3 to 2. Cyr powered all three Crescents runs and stole a base. Nelson pitched well while Malden-Quincy collected nine hits but were shut out except in the fifth. Umpire Kenney fell ill and Connie A’Hearn filled in.
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Union
Odd Fellows
Massachusetts
Point of Pines
William A. Hastings
Eastern
Nelson I. Southwick
Field Day Association
4. E. Bliss
Malden
Rebekahs
A. E. Bliss
Canton Shawnut. No
Maj
Boston
Eva M. Lane
Miriam
Martha Washington
N. L
Furnald
George L. Guild Lodge
C. Harrington
Justice
C. Ca
G. A. Nichols
Bernice
Miola Howard
John L. Howard
Canton Malden
Lynn
Red Cross
Plummer
Middlesex Lodge of
Dorchester Lodge
Neptune
Crescent Association
Crescent Field
Malden- Quincey
Nelson
Crescents
Cyr
Kimball
Cox
Joe Cox
Rourke
Moynihan
Malden-Quincy
Kenney
Connie A’hearn
Double Loop the Loop Thrill Ride Captivates Crowds
Oscar V. Babcock performs a looping death trap on a bicycle. The act lasts about six seconds and begins with a steep descent into a loop. The entry and exit traps open and close automatically guiding the rider through the arc and a 30 foot leap to a safe inclined runway.
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Oscar V. Babcock
Babcock
Origin of Blackguard
The piece explains that in olden houses a class of dirty dependents carried coal to kitchens and were mixed with pots and kettles. These degraded workers were called the Black Guards, and the term later applied to similar people.
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Blackguard
Derison
New York American
Rain and Animals Explain How Wildlife React to Showers
A zoo keeper describes animal reactions to rain noting lions and cats retreat to cages, wolves stay cheery and harmless, snakes perk up in damp warmth, and monkeys become glum. The piece links rain to primitive shelter instincts and even primitive humans hiding in swamps.
A Mouse and a Candle in Pouilguen France
A candle left after bathing season in Pouli guen France was gnawed by a mouse. The rodent climbed a marble chimney and a ten inch silver candlestick to reach the top, eating the candle evenly to the wick over several days per La Nature. An English actor Mr George Weir once faced heckling in Stroud during an improvised Hamlet performance when a former schoolmate shouted a comic aside. The audience fell silent until a back-row voice cried out in glee farewell.
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Pouliguen
France
la Nature
George Weir
Hamlet
Stroud
Gloucestershire
Gargy Weir
Gargy
Garge
Kaffirs Courtship and their fond music
The passage notes Kaffirs as a light hearted people who, after work, play the igubu a simple instrument: a taut bow attached to a gourd. They march across country twanging the string with reed. The music is described as the food of love by a girl's sweetheart.
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Winthrop Sun and Visitor
A. T. Bangness
Highland Station
Revere Beach
Lynn Depot
Winthrop Beach News Co
J. H. Totman
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Brown's Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Elizabeth Rippay
Variety Store
Centre Station
Lewis Block
Washington Ave
Keith’s Theatre
Henry Aloysius Barry
Laura May Burrill
Anna Frances Cunning
Emma Putnam Dean
Milton Whittemore
Don Norman Alexander Gray Thomas Henry Green
Edith Kilburn Hubbard
John Parnell Hughes
Georgia Marie Knowlton
Helen Jane Margeson
Harold Enery Moore
Eleanor Cecilia Mulrey
Sabina May Nelson
Edith Gray
Lillian Frances Sandy
Mabel
Shillaby
Arthur James Smith
Emily Louise Sweeney
Grace Love Tewksbury Alton
Ross Thompson
Pauline Frances Tucker
Eliza Pearl Wood
Rank
Castori
the Crescents
McCarthy
Cronin
Seng
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bears
Castoria
Alfred Tewksbury & Co
Herrick’s
Educato
Golden Rule
Beacon Falls
Wadsworth
Winthrop Centre
Gabler
Shoninger
Ludwig & CO
Winter & CO
BAYS
Blake the Piano Man
Washington St
Oxford
Winthrop
Chas, F. Totten
Winthrop Beach
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St., Winthrop
Red
Winthrop Hardware Company
W. G. Grant
Magee’s Corner
Winthrop, Mass
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