Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . LOBBY OF THE OLD GLOBE THEATRE. Page FOYER OF THE BOSTON THEATRE. Page 413. IN OLD BOSTON 411 and which was at first known as Jane EnglishsTheatre and later as the New Tremont. Atmatinees held here during the Civil War wholerows of women were to be seen plying knittingneedles for the soldiers just as during theGreat War they knitted for the boys overthere. In 1866 this theatre was converted tobusiness uses. That same year the Continental Theatreopened (at the south corner of Washington an
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . LOBBY OF THE OLD GLOBE THEATRE. Page FOYER OF THE BOSTON THEATRE. Page 413. IN OLD BOSTON 411 and which was at first known as Jane EnglishsTheatre and later as the New Tremont. Atmatinees held here during the Civil War wholerows of women were to be seen plying knittingneedles for the soldiers just as during theGreat War they knitted for the boys overthere. In 1866 this theatre was converted tobusiness uses. That same year the Continental Theatreopened (at the south corner of Washington andHarvard streets) in which house on April 13,1868, Madame Fanny Janauschek, supportedby a German dramatic company, made herfirst appearance in Boston. This house waslater called the Olympic and, later still, the Its last season was in 1872. On thesite of what is now the Bijou Theatre stood for-merly a house which, when it opened January11, 1836, was known as the Lion Theatre;then it was called the Melodeon; and, on Octo-ber 15, 1878, Jason Wentworth reopened it oncemore under the name of the Gaiety was here that Macr
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