Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-25
TWO ~TRAGEDIANS.
LAWRENCE BARRETT MANAGES
BOOTH.


renee Barrett's private parlor at the
Hotel Lafayette. one morning recently
at nine O'Clock, and one of the colored
bell boys entered with q telegram in bis
hand. Barrett was slipping a cup of
French coffee. He set his cup on the
little table before him, tore open the
brown envelope covered with big blue
letters and a picture of a messenger
boy running his legs off, and then the
actors brow knitted for an instant, re-
Taxed, and in a jiffy he had answered
the telegram. 1t was from Edwin
Booth. Barrett is his manager and be-
sides acting six nights a week and two
matinees he has his own company to
look after and Booths too. Half an
hour later another telegram came and
thai also was quickly answered. Then
Mr.. Barrett began to open a pile Of
letters that had Just come by post. He
read about twenty letters quickly and
by Dor he had written replies TO a
dozen of them. Then he had breakfast
oiN " y IN oSlpNh It Ndo Ol w Vic
Chestnut Street opera house where he
conducted u rehearsal Of George III.
Boxers new play. AT four, the actor
and back. III" seldom drives. Dinner
at $50 and at $50 he was back in his
dressing room at the opera house. At
midnight hewaswalking TO his hotelwith
George IL. Boxer, after having PLAYED
fhn - Mnrnhapt nc " ,n;, ~ n.l - n,yil
Garrick." That was the days work.
not a lazy minute from the time he got
ZIP until he went to bed ut midnight.
He rises at $50 and goes through about
the same programme every day. He
doesn't drink nor smoke, and always
retlreS as 500 as his nights work is
done, believing III doing his thinking
and managerial work in daytime. Mr..
Barrett, besides this has found time in
the past two or three months to write
biographies IF Macready. Forest and
Edwin Booth, which will shortly ap-
pear in the fourth volume of Lives of
the Actors"
Booth was visiting Barrett at the
latters country place, at CohaSSett, III
the summer So. 1t was a hot, lazy day
and the two t~ragedians, who have been
very intimate since they were quite
young ana inexperienced actors, SAT on
barrett porch and the conversation
dritted into shop talk and Booth COM
pIalhed that marsh CRITICISMS had been
made about his company'5 support.
The trouble lo, said Barrett,
there's TOO much time spent III man-
aging, you on the outside and not
enough attention pald To stage man
aging,
WIZ you Try managing meg' SAID
Dooth, smlllng.
VIII, SAD Barrett.
III was settled then and there, and
barrett imm dlalely selected a good
company Tor boO'l. Sine" then he hds
managed tle lTAE'Nlin personally aAQ
WIFI the ald OF aeie,di iicltenaltS.
- picked on. me ana women whom
knew 10 Dt c'rn''t WORKERS, sald Mir.
baTTett. knew I.Iat fuulh MmSolf
was al r.git, that al mat was neces-
Sar! waste announce his coming II
tiat lle principal part WAS TO see To The
prayers VINO Wrr" 10 support nm. |
nave Walcnei tllt part ut DoothS tour
thlS season carciduy. lie - having an
unusually lrl!.li!lt season, winch eX-
tended over forty weeks, from Maine to
oaIliornla. tie Is ptayIng WIN great
warmth u votes me enthusiastically
on MS Su'CcSSiuI season.
ltls sale To say that Edwin Booth
ana Lawrence Barrett VIII be seen all
OF next season on the AN stage in
the same plays. Mr.. Barrett declined
TO say positively that he and Booth
wonld play together. lie admitted
that he and Booth mad been thinking
about it, but that the plans had not de-
velopcd into a certainty. a friend of
Mr.. BarrettS, however, said that the
two great t~ragedlans would begin their
seasons together next year In New
York; that the largest and best com
pany ever Drougut together would sup
port them, ana tIat the prices would be
about duuD." the regular rates Of adj
mission. Il il knowr JAat Mr.. Barrett
has algeady he N looking the theatrical
field over and noting with his minds
eye actors whom he will probably Sc
cure if the scheme is carried out. AS to
the success of the undertaking Mr..
Barrett had liLtle to say, prefcrring not
to talk about plans that haven't been
thoroughly matured. IIeiS satisfied how
ever, that the undertaking would be a
financial success, and that q season Of
forty weeks could be played in the prln-
cipal cities to big houses.
Mr.. Barrett is very much in love with
George IL. Boxers new play, "Calaylos."
The scene Is laid i'll Spain, just after
the expulsion or the Moors from Gran
ada. i'm the fifteenth century. Barrett. of