Show LAST or UI HUMON TU Boston Post The rho curtain has dropped on the stage of ot the Boston Doston Museum for the last time The lights are out forever In a n I playhouse e which for tor two to generations has hall made theatrical history not nol only tn In Boston Doston but In the United States The career of ot the lime Museum spans the period of ot the development d ot or the drama in Boston two years ago It U was wu established by Moses as al a rom corn compromise promise prom ISo a subterfuge by b which the tra tnt traditional prejudice against playhouses might be satisfied It was a museum of ot curiosities with a dramatic attachment atta From this timis beginning It develop Into a theater In which the th best beat that tha t the art afforded was all produced and nil all the grent Krell t names nam s of ot the histrionic profession sion hae have at some gome time been associated with Its entertainments Boston Herald The Boston Museum Mu eum Is stated staled to have havo In UH its material which Is now no being be In I dis disposed posed of ot a large larKe number of at manuscript ploys plays There Th re must be he some lome curiosities among them The Time first t play pIa of ot all tuli In Inthe Inthe Inthe the list is la probably The Time Drunkard the authorship of at which was wan never ac ae acknowledged but It probably owed a good deal d al In Its construction for tor the thesinge stage singe to William H Ii Smith who iho was nt at the time stage manager ot of the Mu Museum Museum seum and played the most prominent character In time the piece Then Dr hr J 8 S Jones a physician of ot Boston nos Ion Mho alto had also done domie some pome acting and was 08 the tili thelast last manager of ot the theater wrote rote the play of ot Old Job and Jacob Oray Gray for tor the Museum Mu eurn satirized the time country countr members rs of ot the state legisla tu tune ure In imi It and created the character of 01 Jefferson n Scattering for tor or Wll Wil Wilham lam ham Warren Later J F who has hai been giving his hits reminiscences In n the time Atlantic Monthly prepared In conjunction with W H II Smith a play piny II from his hits novel Neighbor Jackwood n a piece 1 ce that had hall a run Shortly before the lays of ot the civil war Benjamin Ik E H I Woolf came eam to to ploy the vio violin yb 10 lin un In III the th Museum orchestra and from rein that lollIon began to write awl and to 10 dra dna dramatize plays for lor Its stage stag I III ie which rose roseto roseto to more than titan a s score Ore In number before hi iii h work mork ork was rIB completed Thel are aro nr probably to be l found In the Museum collection |