SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Elizabeth W. (Sears) Sea- 
bury, widow of Charles W. Seabury, 
died suddenly at her home, 322 
Marlboro street, Boston, early Tues- 
day morning from cerebral hemor- 
rhage. Mrs. Seabury’s late hus- 
band was for twenty-five years 
treasurer of the Calumet & Hecla 
‘Mining Co. Mrs. Seabury was born 
in New Bedford, January 7, 1835, 
and was the daughter of Willard 
and Ruth Sears. One of her sisters 
was Mrs. John Simpkins (Ruth 
Sears), mother of Mrs. Bayard 
Thayer of Boston and Lancaster. 
Miss Hannah G. Sears and Mrs. 
Jean Willard (Mary Sears) of New 
Bedford were other sisters of Mrs. 
Seabury. The only living direct 
member of the family is a brother, 
Willard T. Sears, a prominent ar- 
chitect of Boston. Mrs. Seabury is 
survived by a daughter, Elizabeth S. 
Seabury, and three sons, Frank Sea- 
bury of the Beverly Farms contin- 
fent and William H. Seabury, both 
prominent in banking and club ecir- 
‘cles in Boston, and Gorham T. Sea- 
bury of Bridgeport, Neb. 
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When he is not playing the role 
of a Western mining engineer in 
“The Deep Purple’’ company, now 
at the Plymouth theatre, Boston, 
Sydney Booth, who is the last mem- 
ber, in this country, of that famous 
family of actors, is completing a 
book, which will soon be published. 
It is entitled ‘‘The Life and Career 
of Agnes Booth.’’ Mr. Booth, by 
the way, is the youngest son of Ag- 
nes Booth, who in private life was 
Mrs. John B. Schoeffel, of Boston 
and Manchester. The book contains 
many interesting phases in the life 
of this still well remembered ac- 
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In accordance with their custom 
each year at this season, Mr. and 
Mrs. Allen Curtis of Beacon street, 
Boston, and Beverly Farms, and 
Miss Evelyn Curtis, are making 
ready for their trip to Europe. This 
vear they are sailing the third week 
in March, more than a fortnight 
earlier than they did a_ year ago, 
when they postponed their depar- 
ture until after the wedding of Mr. 
and Mrs. Lathrop Brown (Helen 
Hooper). As usual, the Curtises are 
to make the erossing on one of the 
slower boats, which they prefer to 
the more speedy rivals, and will pro- 
long their travels until early June, 
at which time they are intending to 
return and pass the summer at their 
Beverly Farms villa, ‘‘Sunfield.’’ 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Roland C. Lineoln of Boston 
and Manchester, presented medals 
for rescues of animals at Tuesday’s 
meeting of the Animal Rescue 
league, Boston. 
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The Longfellow medal awarded 
each year by the Cambridge Histor- 
ical society for the best essay on the 
poet’s writings was awarded Tues- 
day to Miss Althea Bemis, a senior’ 
at the Cambridge High and La- 
tin school. Mrs. Edith Longfellow’ 
Dana, wife of Richard H. Dana, Jr., 
of the Manchester contingent, made 
the presentation speech. Mr. Dana 
made an address. 
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Among the contributors toward 
the Infant’s Hospital fund are Mrs. 
Winthrop M.~ Crane, $100; Mrs. 
Charles P. Hemenway, $100; Mrs. 
Charles H. Dalton, $500; Francis I. 
Amory, $100. The hospital is to be 
erected in Boston near the Harvard 
Medical school. 
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Mrs. W. Seott Fitz of Boston and 
Manchester, has recently presented 
the Boston Museum with a picture 
by Edmund C. Tarbell entitled, 
‘‘My Children in the Woods.’’ 
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Among the new contributors to 
the guarantee fund for the Boston 
Opera company was Frank B. Bemis 
of Boston and Beverly Farms, who 
subscribed $500. S. Reed Anthony 
of Boston and Beverly Farms is an- 
other recent and liberal subscriber 
to the fund; also C. P. Curtis. 
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Monday Governor R. P. Bass of 
New Hampshire, Harvard ’96, gave 
a lecture at Harvard eollege on 
‘““The Progressive Movement in New 
Hampshire.’’ 
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Mr. and Mrs. George N. Towle of 
Newton Centre and Mystery Isles, 
entertained guests over the holiday 
at their country home at Epping- 
ham, N. H. 
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An engagement of much social in- 
terest is that of Miss Mary Louise 
Caldwell and Frederick Gray Jack- 
son of Harvard, 1903, the latter be- 
ing well known in Cambridge. He 
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick 
Tracy Jackson of Follen street, 
Cambridge, and Pride’s Crossing. 
Miss Caldwell, who is a very attrac- 
tive young woman, is a daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Caldwell of 
Lafayette, Ind. 
‘‘The Rose Maid’’ at the Colonial 
The first performance of a light 
opera considered by such producing 
experts as Messrs. Werba and Lues- 
cher to be a suitable successor to 
their charming ‘‘Spring Maid,’’ is 
an event of more than ordinary in- 
terest. At the Colonial Theatre, 
Monday evening, March 4th, this 
firm will present ‘‘The Rose Maid,”’ 
an operetta which gives every indi- 
cation of becoming as popular as her 
earlier sister. ‘‘The Rose Maid’’ is 
the work of Bruno Granichstaedten, 
a Continental composer whose name 
is already familiar to American 
music-lovers through the rendering 
here by the large concert orchestras 
of his cabaret songs and selections 
from his lght operas. Granich- 
staedten now has two productions 
running simultaneously in Vienna 
with much success. The score of 
‘“The Rose Maid’’ is said to be ex- 
quisite in its dainty harmony and 
melody of the ‘‘catchy’’ variety and 
one song particularly, ‘‘The Rose 
Song,’” promises to achieve as great 
fame as any of the numerous hits 
of ‘‘The Spring Maid.”’ 
Adrienne Augarde, the English 
favorite who scored substantial sue- 
cesse in this country in ‘‘The Dollar 
Princess’? and ‘‘The Duchess of 
Dantzig,’’ has been imported from 
London for the title role. 
B. F. Keith’s Theatre 
With Jesse L. Lasky’s new oper- 
etta, ‘‘California,’’ Bert Fitzgibbon, 
and Howard and Howard among the 
principal features, next week’s bill 
at B. F. Keith’s Theatre promises to 
be one of the strongest and most di- 
versified. of the season. ‘‘ Cali- 
fornia’’ is the prettiest and most 
pretentious production ever staged 
by Jesse Lasky. It is a real Amer- 
ican operetta, with book by Cecil 
DeMille, author of ‘‘Strongheart,’’ 
lyrics by Grant Stewart, and music 
by Robert Hood Bowers, composer 
of ‘‘The Vanderbilt Cup’’ and ‘‘The 
Red Rose.’’ The title role is in the 
hands of Miss Leslie Leigh, one of 
the stars of the New York Folies 
Bergero during its brief existence. 
The scene is laid in lower California, 
at an old Spanish mission threat- 
ened with destruction as a railroad 
wishes to run a new line right 
through the property. The comedy 
is in the hands of Austin Stewart, 
who has the part of an English lord, 
owner of the railroad, the music be- 
ing of exceptional quality,-the eateh- 
iest number beine a duet, ‘‘I Love 
You, My Own.’”’ Bert Fitzgibbon, 
known as ‘‘The Daffy Dill,’’ will try 
to live up to his title by telling a 
lot of crazy stories and singing some 
insane songs, 
