Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . February, 1846, the structure was burned, and inits place the present theatre was built, and opened inOctober of the same year. It has always been asuccessful house, and in its earlier days, when chieflydevoted to the legitimate drama, it was patronizedby the best people of the town. Among its mana-gers have been John Brougham, Charles R. Thome,Wyzeman Marshall, Henry Willard, J. M. Field, JohnGilbert, E. L. Davenport, Isaac B. Rich, J. C. T
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . February, 1846, the structure was burned, and inits place the present theatre was built, and opened inOctober of the same year. It has always been asuccessful house, and in its earlier days, when chieflydevoted to the legitimate drama, it was patronizedby the best people of the town. Among its mana-gers have been John Brougham, Charles R. Thome,Wyzeman Marshall, Henry Willard, J. M. Field, JohnGilbert, E. L. Davenport, Isaac B. Rich, J. C. Trow-bridge, Josh Hart, John Stetson, Benjamin F. Tryon,and Fred Stinson and William Harris. Since 1868variety entertainments have been its chief attrac-tions, but dramas, generally of the lurid type, haveoccasionally been presented on its boards. Its pres-ent manager, William Harris, has successfully con-ducted the house since 1879. The Howard willseat about fifteen hundred in its well-arrangedorchestra, orchestra circle, and two balconies, theupper one devoted to the gallery gods. The stage,although somewhat compact, is admirably BOSTON OF TO-DAY. The Boston i\[usenm is in one sense the oldesttheatre in the city. The enterprise was originallystarted in 1841 by Moses Kimball, in a buildingwhich occupied the site of the present Horticult-ural Hall on the same street. It was for someyears called the Boston Museum and Gallery ofFine Arts, but theatrical performances in the lect-ure-room formed the chief attraction. Here thelate Adelaide Phillips made her first appearanceon the stage, as a dancer; and here, in 1843, thefirst regular dramatic company was present Museum — built of granite, with threestories of round arched windows, and its front still adorned by elegant balconies and rows of ground-glass globes like enormous pearls, which, at night,are luminous with gas, as described by a localhistorian thirty years ago — dates from 1846. Itopened on
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