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...will surely be in Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Three." Unfortunately for the prophet, in 1844 he had to revise the calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Order of the Bath, which ranks him between a baronet and a knight and entitles him to wear a crimson satin mantle lined with white taffeta.* He is also an honorary member of London's famed and hoary Athenaeum Club. These honors have now been augmented by one from another great ally of the U.S.-Russia's Order of Suvorov, First Degree, one of the highest military awards the Soviet Union can bestow...
...Athenaeum was soon extravagantly restored. Its new, heavily-gilded proscenium and cushioned seats (the first in any Boston theatre) led an inspired advertising agent to boast in billboard posters...
...Rome points proudly to her Collseum So Boston treats her Howard Athenaeum...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 someone rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...