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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr, and Mrs, Gardiner M. Lane 
and daughter Katharine came down 
from Boston last Sunday and were 
luncheon guests at the Manchester 
Tea Rooms. Mr, DeOppet and wife 
with friends from New York and 
Philadelphia lunched at the tea rooms 
one day last week. Mr. DeOppet is 
the founder of the world-famous 
Florzaly Quartet which played at 
_ Symphony last week. 
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_ The Misses Setheriic and Mary 
Tweed, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. 
- Charles H. Tweed of New York and 
_ the North Shore summer colony, 
sailed on the Cincinnati on Wednes- 
_ day of last week. They are to stop 
at Naples and after that they will 
travel as their fancy dictates. 
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Alexander H, Higginson’s racing 
stable in Lincoln was distroyed and 
22 of his thoroughbred running horses 
and jumpers were burned to death 
 Jast Saturday night in a fire that was 
said to be of incendiary origin. Mr 
_ Higginson said the fire looked “very 
queer,” and many of the employes on 
the estate declared openly that the 
fire was set. The loss is about $50- 
000. Many of the horses have been 
shown on the North Shore and at 
the Country club races. The most 
famous of the horses lost were Sir 
Wooster, a Grand National winner, 
and Ross Fenton and Prince Hamp- 
_ ton, winners at important meetings. 
Each of these three horses was valued 
at $5000, Only two horses were 
saved, and it is believed that the 
__ fright and exposure to the cold will 
__ make them valueless as racers. The 
_ fire started just as two of the stable 
men were returning from supper, and 
within six minutes, according to Mr. 
Higginson, the entire building was 
enveloped in flames, All the em- 
ployes on the estate turned out to help 
the town fire department, but they 
were delayed because a wrench which 
has been kept on the hydrant in the 
stable for the last five years was miss- 
ing. Unable to stop the spread of 
the flames the men tried to save as 
many of the horses as possible. Sev- 
eral horses were guided out of the 
stable but as soon as they reached 
safety they bolted back into the 
flames and perished. 
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Manchester, Mass., Friday, February 6, 1914 
- BOSTON OPERA HOUSE. 
The importance of the forthcom- 
ing week, the twelfth of the Boston 
Opera season, will speak for itself. 
One important new opera will be 
brought to its first performance, 
three old favorites will be restored 
to the current repertoire, and one 
work which has men with especial 
favor this winter will be repeated. 
On Monday, Feb, 9, the new work 
“The Love of the Three Kings’ will 
be given by its Boston premiere. The 
cast which will be heard at the Bos- 
ton Opera production will be the 
same, in all important essentials, as 
the Metropolitan cast. It will in- 
clude Miss Lucrezia Bori as Fiora, 
Pasquale Amato as Manfredo; Ed- 
oardo Ferrari-Fontana as Avito; and 
Paolo Ludikar as Archibaldo; with 
Mr. Moranzoni directing. 
Wednesday night will be the oc- 
casion of the season’s first produc- 
tion of the ever-popular “Carmen,” 
with a notable cast. Margarita D’AI- 
varez will sing the title role. The 
Don Jose will be Lucien Muratore, 
who returns from Chicago, crowned 
with fresh laurels, to round out his 
Boston season. Mr. Andre-Caplet 
will conduct. On Friday night “The 
Secret of Susanne” will come to its 
“first performance of the year, cou- 
pled with “Pagliacci.” . Miss Alice 
Nielsen will, of course, be the Count- 
ess in the delightful Wolf-Ferrari 
piece; and Antonio Scotti will come 
from the Metropolian to take the role 
of the Count, 
At the Saturday matinee, “The 
Love of the Three Kings” will be 
given its second hearing, with the 
same cast as before. 
At the Saturday evening perform- 
ance at popular prices. Flotow’s 
“Martha” will be sung in English, for 
the first time this season. The prin- 
cipal roles will fall to Evelyn Scot- 
ney, Elvira Leveroni, George Everett, 
Alfredo Ramella, and Howard White. 
Mr. Lyford will direct. 
At the eleventh operatic concert, 
to be given in the Boston Opera 
House the evening of Sunday. Feb, 8, 
the great violinist Ysave, will be the 
principal feature. The orchestra 
will accompany Mr, Ysaye in several 
concertes which he will play. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Thursday, Feb. 12, will be the date 
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra C. Fitch will sail 
for Europe, They are going over on 
the Kaiserine Augusta Victoria. 
After a stay in Germany and France 
they will join their daughter, Mrs. 
Northend, and family at Stouts 
Hill, Dursly, Gloucestershire, Eng- 
land, for a visit before returning to 
their summer home at Manchester.: 
They will close their Boston house, 
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One of the delightful events of 
the present month, in Boston, will 
be the costume dinner and dance 
which Mr. and Mrs, Bryce J. Allan 
are having on the night of Feb, 17, 
in compliment to Mrs. Allan’s young 
neice, Miss Phyllis Sears, at the Al- 
lan residence, which boasts a beauti- 
fully appointed ballroom. 
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Mrs. and Mrs. Bayard Warren 
(nee Sears) are being congratulated 
on the birth of a daughter at their 
home on Beacon st., Boston. 
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Since arriving in England, a couple 
ef weeks ago, Mrs, John R. McGin- 
ley of Smith’s Point, Manchester, 
and her daughters, the Misses Mar- 
ion and Lois McGinley, have been 
staying in London, at the Berkeley 
Hotel. They are going to Switzer- 
land where they will spend the late 
winter at St, Moritz, going thence 
to the Riviera, and finally to Paris 
before sailing for home. 
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The young friends of Miss Mar- 
gery Lee and Miss Anne M. Means 
are much interested in their novel 
experience of being presented at 
court in Rome. The function was 
very democratic, those to be presented 
waiting in a large ante-room and-be- 
ing introduced to the Queen one by 
one by a lady in waiting. At the 
same time Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Lit- 
tle and Mr. and Mrs. John Hays 
Hammond of “Lookout Hill,’ Glou- 
cester, were also presented. Mrs. 
George Lee is already a_ personal 
friend of Queen Elena, and so no in- 
troduction in her case was necessary. 
She and her daughter, the Ham- 
monds, the Littles and Miss Means 
are on the list for all the court balls 
and hospitalities of the late winter 
in Rome. 
