Fadettes of Boston

"[4] In 1898, vaudeville manager B.F. Keith booked them into his theatres all over the United States.

According to Nichols, between 1890 and 1920 the Fadettes gave over 6,000 concerts, half of them as headliners in first-class vaudeville theatres.

[3] At a concert in Pittsburgh in 1902, for instance, the Fadettes played marches, waltzes, songs and arias by Frederic Field Bullard, Daniel Auber, Karl Michael Ziehrer, George M. Rosey, Victor G. Boehnlein [5] and others.

"[8] Among the musicians were Annie Andros Hawley,[9] Mildred Rogers,[6] and Lillian Thain (violin).

[10] Nichols "conducted the orchestra for thirty years and trained over six hundred women for professional careers as orchestral musicians.