Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-15
BOOTH AND BARRETT.
THEY ARE 10 APPEAR At TsE RfcK-
MoED THEATRE TOMORROW NIGHT.
othello the Play-certainty that There will
bes Very Large Audience to bee
and Rear Them.

The greatest event in theatrical circles
in this city for years is the expected ap-
pearance Of Booth aud Barrett at the
Theatre tomorrow night 10 the play OF
Othello.
All Of the Booths have been moro or
less identified with the history OF the
drama in Richmond, and the name is o
very familiar and popular one here.
In the present Theatre building, which
was erected during tho var on the site
of the one destroyed by fra Jauusry :,
1862, he played an engagement OF seve-
raj nights in 1876 but he had often
trodden the boards OF "the Old Mar
shall, and in those days had Ri cxtan-
sive acquaintance and many personal
friends here. Such is bis reputation that
were he the only star OF tomorrow night
tho house would be crowded but Mr..
Barrett is also favorite in this comm.
nifty, aSd has over and over again visited
Richmond in the last ten or fifteen
years and always drew well.
Barrett has gifts and graces which
recommend him 10 the thCatre-gong
people everywhere, but inthe late Alfred
J. Bennett, who was one OF the bright.
est journalists ever in this State, and
whose judgment IN matters oi TINS sort
was deserving of great weight, ne had
friend who spoke Of BIN III the highest
possible terms md did much IN the way
of making him lasting reputation here.
So Booth and Barrett come here with
troops of friends 10 receive them.
The choice seats were sold by auction,
bnt there are still some desirable ones
awaiting purchasers
Booth and Barrett played in Baltimore
all OF last week and did an extraordinary
business. They VIII arrive here to-day
bv the fast-mail train and 60 to thor
quarters at the Exchange Hotel. To-
morrow night after the performance
and their agent pledged the Richmond
people that II should not be shortened or
slurred in the slightest particular-the
companv will take n special train and
leave here for Charleston, 5. g., whore
they will play two nights. In Richmond
they are sure OF q crowded and fashona-
bic audience house that will pay the
management an unusual sum oi money,
and it is expected that all III the company
will do tGeir uttcrmost TO present
Othello in the best possible manner.
Mr. Booth to-morrowright personates
the crafty and insinuatIng Iago. part
in which he has achieved great dlstlnc-
.ion-perhaps where acute critics are the
iudges. greater than III any other one
character-whilc Mr.. Barrett has the title
role. and becomes the Jealous Moor 1t
has been stated that at the beginning OF
their engagement Booth and Barrettalter-
pnted in these two characters, but that
finally Booth accepted laSo as best suited
20 him.
LAWRENCE BARRETT
lawrence 7. BaIrett was born AZ Pater-
son, \. j., on April 4, 1888. HIS pa
rents we're Irish. The boy received an
ordinary education, which he improved
81 every opportunity. tie was instnc-
t,vslv a student, and severe mental labor
and Strict application of keen lntehl-
ecnce have had quito az much TO 40 WIN
lis professional success ns the divine trc
Of Unborn art.
Young Barrett began life at about fiji
teen rs u salesman Ill Detroit Men.
dry.poods establishment lie belonged
10 the class known as stsge-Strnck
and ended hv finding an opening Tor
himself Mt the old Metropolitan Theatre,
Detroit, as a supcrnumcrarv. Ills hret
sneakinR part was Murad in Tine
French Spy, and ne graduated from II
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