NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
BEVERLY FARMS 
A recount of the Republican votes, 
which were cast at the Primaries 
April 30th, took place in Beverly 
Wednesday. It was found that there 
was a total of 229 ballots which 
were invalid because 9 names in- 
stead of 8 were marked for the Taft 
delegates. In Ward 6 there were 7 
such ballots, which the recount did 
not altar, showing that the intelli- 
gence of the Ward 6 voter was 
somewhat better than the average in 
the rest of the city. 
Frank B. Grove has been recom- 
mended to fill the vacancy in the 
Farms fire department. 
The Firemen’s Memorial Sunday 
will be observed by the members of 
the Beverly Firemen’s Relief asso- 
ciation Sunday, June 2nd, with ser- 
vices at the First Universalist 
church in Beverly. Detachments 
will visit the various cemeteries, 
of the departed 
decorated with 
where the graves 
firemen will be 
flowers. 
B. F. Keith Now Controls all Vaude- 
ville From Coast to Coast. 
B. F. Keith has purchased the 
Perey G. Williams’ circuit, com- 
posed of the eight largest and finest 
high-class vaudeville theatres in 
New York City, and by the con- 
sumation of a deal with Messrs. 
Meyerfold and Beck of the Or- 
pheum Circuit, Mrs. C. E. Kohl, of 
Chicago, and Max Anderson of New 
York, has clarified the vaudeville 
situation and brought about the big- 
gest amalgamation of interests ever 
known in the theatrical world. It 
involves millions of dollars, and by 
the purchase of interests in each 
others houses East and West, practi- 
eally makes a gigantic combination 
of all the high-class vaudeville thea- 
tres in America. In bringing this 
about, Mr. Keith, with his asso- 
ciates, E. F. Albee, A. Paul Keith, 
and John J. Murdock, come into 
complete control of the high-class 
vaudeville situation as far West as 
Chicago. In Chicago, it will be un- 
der the direction of Mrs. C. E. Kohl, 
Max Anderson, and the Munrve 
Amusement company, who were as- 
sociated with Mr. Keith in the orig- 
inal purchase of the Percy G Wil- 
liams’ circuit. West of Chicago, 
the Orpheum circuit, under the dir- 
ection of Morris Meyerfold, Jr., and 
Martin Beck, will have control. This 
is the closest amalgamation of in- 
terests that has ever been attained 
hy vaudeville managers in this 
country. The bookings of both the 
great B. F. Keith circuit and the 
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Orpheum circuit, reaching from 
Maine and California, will all be 
done together in the Putnam Build- 
ing, Times Sq., New York city. It 
is stated that even a more liberal 
policy will be adopted 
‘(45 Minutes From Broadway’’ at 
Colonial 
At the Colonial Theatre next 
week opening May 13th, Geo. M. 
Cohan will present himself and his 
own company in the great revival of 
his music play, ‘‘45 Minutes from 
Broadway’? in which the famous 
author - actor-playwright-composer 
and producer will be seen in the 
role of ‘‘Kid’’ Burns. 
Mr. Cohan’s Kid Burns comes 
nearer, it is said, to a stage realiza- 
tion of the geuine Bowery type than 
has heretofore been visualized. 
Of almost equal importance as 
Mr. Cohan’s appearance in this re- 
vival is that of Miss Sallie Fisher, 
who has created a sensation by her 
conception of the part of Mary. 
‘45 Minutes from Broadway’’ 
will be seen at the Colonial exactly 
as it was presented at the Geo. M. 
Cohan Theatre in New York. With 
a promise like this amusement- 
seekers can rest assured that the 
play will be presented as it never 
was before, and it is safe to predict 
that there will be sufficient people 
take advantage of it to fill the thea- 
tre to the capacity point at every 
performance during his Colonial en- 
geagement which includes Wednes- 
day and Saturday matinees. 
Zelda Sears at B. F. Keith’s Theatre 
Zelda Sears, the late star of ‘‘The 
Nest Egg,’’ Harriet Burt, the prima 
donna of ‘‘The Time. The Place, and 
The Girl;’? Trovato, the Filipino 
violinist; and the Charles Ahearn 
Troupe of cyclists, will be among 
the principal features of a great all- 
star bill announced for next week 
at B. F. Keith’s Theatre. For her 
vaudeville engagement Miss Sears 
has secured one of the funniest and 
most original comedies ever written. 
It is entitled ‘‘The Wardrobe Wo- 
man,’’ and deals with life behind 
the scenes in a_ small one-night 
stand theatre in the far West. 
Harriet Burt has not appeared in 
Boston in several years. She brings 
a number of new and novel songs 
and dances. Trovato, the erazy vio- 
linist, will be another great feature. 
Aside from his marvelous playing, 
Trovato is the greatest of them all 
when it comes to selecting a reper- 
toire. He plays everything from 
grand opera to ragtime. The Charles 
Ahearn troupe have a most amus- 
ing burlesque on a six day bicycle 
race; the Aeroplane Ladies is a 
stunning aerial novelty; J. Waldo 
Connolly and Margaret Webb will 
present their surprise finish, ‘‘A 
Stormy Hour;’’ and Sampson and 
Reilly. 
Condemns Institution. 
The newspapers of the smaller 
towns throughout the country are 
frequently solicited to insert read- 
ing advertisements for the Philadel- 
phia school for nurses, located at 
2219 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, 
and as it poses as a beneficent and 
charitable institution these adver- 
tisements are inserted free of 
charge. 
Dr. William S. Higbee, president 
of the Penn. State Board of Ex- 
aminers for Registration of Nurses, 
asks this paper to state that the 
Penn. state board of charities places 
this institution under the head of 
those they condemn absolutely in 
their printed report. He says fur- 
ther that the public should know 
that the young women who enter 
this school as pupils, are sent out 
after having had the most meagre 
instruction from incompetent in- 
instructors, to nurse in private 
families for money, eighty per cent. 
of which is returned tc ‘the school 
treasury. They receive no bedside 
instruction nor are they under the 
direction of skilled.and ‘competent 
teachers. 
BEVERLY . FARMS 
Miss Florence Paine of Ventra, 
Isle of Wight, England, was a _ pas- 
senger on ‘the incoming Cunard 
liner, Franconia, which docked in 
Boston yesterday. Miss Paine is a 
younger sister of Mrs. Arthur Bur- 
ton of Beverly Farms and comes 
here with the intention of making 
this country her permanent home. 
William S. Pike, Jr., returned 
home Wednesday from the Beverly 
hospital where he-has-been confined 
vith a broken leg. The accident oc- 
curred early in the winter. At that 
time he was obliged. to remain six 
weeks at the above instiution, but 
after returning bome was obiiged to 
return to the hospital receiving a 
serious set back. the result of a fall. 
The Beverly Times in vesterday’s 
issue savs that ‘‘Alderman Augus- 
tus P. Torine. Jv. will probably be 
a candidate for representative this 
Fall. Jlis friends in ward six and 
in the City proper are urging him 
to run and the alderman from the 
sixth ward will probably be found 
in the lineup for the nomination.’’ 
