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Selwyn's Theatre and the Robert-
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son Period
1870 there were only five theatres
in Boston, and the price of the best
reserved seats varied from seventy-
five cents to one dollar. The advance in
public demand for theatrical amusement
in this city may be inferred both from the
present number of our theatres, which is
fifteen, and from the doubling of the charge
for places in houses of the highest grade.
In that year the wave of excitement caused
by the opening of Selwyn's Theatre, after-
wards known as the Globe, was just begin-
ning to subside. The establishment of the
new house had been regarded as a great
event, and the merits of its first three
stock companies — of which Mrs. Chan-
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