Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-23

cess at the New Amsterdam theatre in
New York, while sweet, winsome Annie
Russell, who has just scored a success
in Mice and Men, is playing in the
Younger Mrs. Parting" new NAV hy
c. Haddon Chambers, at the Park
Miss Russell has an individuality of
her own, and is by far one of the bright.
if not the brightest attractions of the
Hub. Miss Russell is Maine girl by
adoption if not by birth, and every
summer finds her at The Lodges. her
charming summer home at Pemao,,id
on the coast of Maine, where with her
brother Tommy, of Little Lord
Fauntleroy fame, and select circle OF
acouaintances she rows or sails to her
hearts content Miss Russell is an ex-
pert yachtswoman and can handle. reef
and steer equal to Sir Richard Porter
of Pinafore fame, and in horsemanship
she has few equals, and many is the
long jaunt she takes on the back OF
sally her pet pony. Miss Russell has
an unpretentions summer home. facing
the ocean, and her 40 acre farm down
by the sea is to her more than Biltmore
is to the Vanderbilts. She has the
happy faculty of surrounding herself,
while on the stage, with a congeniaJ
company. Jack Mason of the old
Museum Stock is leading man, and
divides the honors with the star.
Another familiar face is that of dear old
Mrs. Gilbert who was with the Days
so long in New York. Mrs. Gilbert has
been before the public for many years,
but like old wine she improves if
possible with years.
At the Columbia, Paula Edwardes in
"Winsome Winnie with a chorus of
huge proportions is holding forth
nightly. At the Boston, Denman
Thompson in 1.-The Old Homestead"
that old New England play, that will
never grow old is booked for a two
weeks run. While the fremont is
Offering Blanche Bates in 1.-The Darling
of the Gods" Belascos drama of old
Japan from Belascos theatre in New
York. The Castle Square, one of the
home like houses in Boston, is playing
it's regular stock company, this week
the offering was THE Other Side of
The World" and there are others.
Very soon the good people Of Greater
Boston will have chance to indulge in
electric Journey, like Jules Verne's
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea, for the East Boston tunnel, or
subway, is fast nearing completion, and
soon the broom handle express will go
as the Acknowledged Celestial says. mo
pulley no pushee, but go all the samee',
down the incline on State street, and
bob up serenely in East Boston,.
Thanksgiving season in the poultry line
is somewhat of problem. Possibly
our strained relations with Turkey has
affected the Eastern market, and we
may be obliged to put with one of those
cold storage birds, which We see in the
Boston daily papers, the morning after
election.
The new fad in Boston is the mes
senger girl. Before the advent OF TINS
fleet footed courier in petticoats, >one
was obliged to wait for leaden-f footed
BOYS, with cap three sizes too large Tor
Kim, to come crawling along the street,
TO answer the call, or with yellow
envelope in his hands, but now trim
looking girl comes flying in, touches
her cap and says Message for you, sir,
sign here, land the trick is done" Even
if the message contains bad news, it
will be received with better grace tnali
from the hands of a boy messenger. II
looks as if the boy must go, and the girl
has found her proper sphere.
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