Keywords: Comic opera
Item 18868
Comic opera production, Lewiston, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1930 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: Photographic print
Item 68369
"Princess Bonnie" opera cast, Farmington State Normal School, June 1926
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1926-06-14 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
Exhibit
Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary
A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park
"… dancing comedians, musical comedies, acrobats, comic opera, trick dogs, aerialists, wizards of the tight wire, soft shoe dancers, burlesque…"
