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Mrs. Harry Pratt McKean will move up to town the 
first week of December and will occupy the house of her 
sister, Mrs. L. Carteret Fenno, at 238 Beacon street. 
This is the third winter that Mrs. McKean has occupied 
the Fenno residence. The house at. Pride’s Crossing will 
be kept open all winter as usual for week-ends. 
BOSTON OPERA HOUSE 
With a more brilliant ensemble of 
world-eminent artists on its roster 
than ever before and a_ repertory, 
which in addition to including the 
standard operas in French, Cerman 
and Italian, will embrace novelties by 
the foremost contemporaneous com- 
posers, the Boston Opera Company 
will begin its fifth season on Monday 
evening, Nov. 24. 
While fewer new operas will be 
presented than in former seasons 
those which will be given will be of 
paramount importance, including as 
they will the first performance any- 
where of Zandonai’s “Francesca da 
Rimini” to the text by d’Annunzio, 
with Mme, Lina Cavalieri, Lucien 
Muratore and Vianni Marcoux in the 
first roles. The initial novelty will 
cone early in December when 
Fevrier’s “Monna Vanna” after the 
poetic drama by Maeterlinck will be 
given its American premiere by a cast 
headed by Mary Garden and MM. 
Muratore and Marcoux. 
The third addition to the reper- 
toire will be Wagner’s “Die Me 
Meistersinger,’ for the mounting and 
presentation of which extraordinary 
preparations already are underway. 
To supplant these new works and re- 
place others which have been drop- 
ped, revivals wil be offered of ‘‘La 
Gioconda,” the “Manon Lescaut’ of 
Puccini and Massenet “Manon,” none 
of which were sung last season. 
All of the successful novelties of 
last year, “Don Giovanni,” “The 
Jewels of the Madonna,” “The Secret 
of Suzanne,” “Louise” and “Tales of 
Hoffmann” will be heard once more 
and in all there will be a repertoire 
of thirty operas from which choic 
can be drawn. : 
The artists already engaged num- 
ber 68 and of them 31 will sing in 
3oston for thie first time. The nota- 
ble newcomers are Mmes, Androva, 
3eriza, Cavalieri, Frease-Green, Hel- 
iane, Lasilva and Rieger among the 
sopranas; Mmes. Dalvarez, Matzen- 
auer and Ruienskaja-Archinard from 
the contraltos; Louis Deru, Edoardo 
Ferrari-Fontana, Aristodemo Giorgi- 
ni, Giovanni Martinelli, Lucien Mur- 
atore, Giuseppe Oppezzo and Vincen- 
zo ‘Tanlongo, tenors; Mario Ancona, 
Henry Danges, and Alban Grand, 
baritones and Paolo Ludikar and 
‘vaddeo Wronsky, basses. 
Among those who already are firm- 
ly established as Boston favorites 
and whose return is assured are: 
Mmes. Amsden, Boni, Destinn, Ed- 
vina, Garden, Weingartner-Marcel, 
Melba, Nielsen, Scotney, Sharlow, 
‘Vetirazzini, Gay, Leveroni and Swartz 
and MM. Clement, Laffitte, Uvlus, 
Zenatello, Blanchart, Marcoux, L,an- 
kow, Mardones and Sampieri. 
Coning again as chief conductors 
will be Andre-Caplet, Roberto Mor- 
anzoni and Felix Weingarten, the last 
mentioned for a much longer period 
than ever before. 
In accordance with the exchange 
agreement which exists between the 
various American opera companies, 
occasional visits are promised from 
Frances Alda, Pasquale Amato, Ales- 
sandro Bonci, Edmund Burke, Enri- 
co Caruso, Julia Claussen, Florencio 
Constantino, Charles Dalmores, Olive 
Fremstad, Johanna Gadski, Otto 
Goritz, Frieda Hempel, Lillian Nor- 
dica, Giovanni Polese, Rosa Raisa, 
Mabel Riegelman, Minnie Saltzman- 
Stevens, Antonio Scotti, Maggie 
Teyte, Carolina White and Alice 
Zeppilli. 
PAVLOWA AT OprRA House 
As announced a week ago, Anna 
Pavlowa, the incomparable dancer, 
who still knows no rival in either 
America or Europe, comes to the 
30ston Opera House for a series of 
three performances to take place on 
the afternoon and evening of this 
Saturday and the evening of Wed- 
nesday, Oct. 20. 
Subscribe for the Breeze, $2.00 per 
year, postpaid. 
MANY USES FOR BIRCH ARE 
RECORDED 
From furnishing material for a 
canoe in which to hunt whales some 
hundred odd years ago to supplying 
New England factories of today with 
11,000 cords of wood annually for 
shoe pegs and shanks is, according to 
the department of agriculture, only 
part of the services the birch tree has 
rendered and is rendering the people 
of America. 
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the de- 
partment tells us in a bulletin just is- 
sued on the uses of birch, hunted 
whales in a birch bark canoe. ‘Tihe 
animal were found at the mouth of 
the Mackenzie River. He failed to 
strike the game, and concluded that 
it was probably for the best. 
the canoes are frail, it is pointed out 
that the bark of which they are made 
resists decay longer than any other 
part of the tree. 
It would be difficult, the depart- 
ment goes on to say, to estimate the 
value of thle service of the birch bark 
canoe in the discovery, exploration, 
development, and settlement of the 
northern part of this continent. From 
the Artic Circle to the Great Lakes, 
and southward, for a century and a 
half, that light but exceedingly strong 
and serviceable vessel threaded the 
lakes and rivers, bearing trade and 
carrying civilization where no other 
boat could go. The French explorers 
and missionaries made journeys of 
hundreds of miles in these canoes, of- 
ten carrying cargoes which would 
seem beyond the capacity of such 
frail vessels. 
The range of uses to which birch 
wood is put is surprisingly large. Ac- 
cording to the department, the arti- 
cles into which it goes range from 
church pews to kitchen tables, and 
from organ pipes to newel posts, We 
may have our first sleep in a birch 
crib and our last in a birch coffin. 
The spools on which we get our cot- 
ton and silk thread are birch spools, 
and the lasts on which our shoes are 
Mrs, Robt. D, Evans and her mother, Mrs. David 
Hunt, and her sisters, Miss Abby and Miss Belle Hunt, 
who have spent the summer at Beverly, will return to 
their Boston house on Gloucester street ithe 30th of the 
month, 
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