He was best known for the songs "Some Coward Closed the Old Howard," a humorous paean to Boston's famous vaudeville house The Old Howard, and "Vote Early and Often for Curley," a reelection campaign song for Boston Mayor James Michael Curley.
Sarah Parker Remond, a medical doctor, anti-slavery activist and lecturer with the American Anti-Slavery Society, had bought a ticket through the mail for the Donizetti opera, Don Pasquale, but, upon arriving, refused to sit in a segregated section for the show.
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A program for the Ernani performance at the Howard is owned by the Boston Athenæum, which has a very small but interesting collection of programs from the Howard's early years dating from 1847 to 1848.
William Howard Taft | John Howard | Howard Hughes | Howard Stern | Howard University | Ron Howard | Howard Dean | Howard Hawks | Howard Zinn | The Howard Stern Show | Robert E. Howard | Howard Shore | Howard Carter | Howard | Howard Baker | Howard County, Maryland | Trevor Howard | Michael Howard | Clint Howard | Leslie Howard | Clark Howard | Russell Howard | Howard Barker | Ebenezer Howard | Oliver O. Howard | Leslie Howard (actor) | Howard Nemerov | Howard Gardner | Howard Chaykin | Howard Pyle |