Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-04-29

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IN nndtuDee without bG1nG sca3ca -
0ut a ~ vita EVEN nOu, has1ne
iss-x rskarsd from IL puhhc sieet,
thooeh With her vuico stlh - pssfecs
~ ever. she says abe en- nos ssano
up TO sing before . dooen frsen0s IA
her cxn paYsor uishout ofos nervous
Ne;bourue Mcdowell. rsnny Dsven-
port's leading man. has brought sa's
tor IA ahsus rs- divorce Mr. McDou-
ell, who - playing With small con-
pauy on tn. rod. has made no answer
tacs far TO the application is y saso
that Il she shoaid rho0se 70 rspay, atfe.
mendous sensation would BE created
IN dramatic circles.
As Id In the schoolrCou. IN white
trousers and black jsckes. kdwin Booth
reciied, VITA John s. Clarke. tuho a.
terwayri marr1ed his SISTER. As1a boofht
the gu rrei scene between Brutus and
Gasssas, Booth then, - nog. taking
Brutus. His father, unseen. witnessed
the performance. 4 feu months iaaeT
the chums gave IN enter ainment 70
the college sfudensa. Booth recsted
from Richard Ill, Macbeth. Hamlet
and Jrlius Cesar, and between times
he and Clarke backed up and Gang
negro melodies. In 1851 Edwin
Booths % AIRY was only ~ . week
In 1855 be became recognised - . nne
actor.
Edwin Booth and LaUrsnce Barrett
are working their way East Ihef
route calls for engagements IN the foi-
iowin csties: Lafayette, Ind April
30; Fort Wayne, May l; kalamazoo,
Mich.) May ID; Grand Kapids. Sd /;
Bay City, Sfh; East 5aginas 5th: Ann
Arbor, tn; Springfield, tOhi0D sih |;
Dayton, sth; Lo sisvIlie. tky.l 10Th.
ilth and l2th. Brooklyn, Amphion
Academy, l4th, one week, to close the
season.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
paid a peculiar compliment to Booth
and Barrett by making up special
train TO take the tragedians and tne,r
company from Salt Lake City to Den
yer. The train consisted OF the private
car Junias Brutus Booth, In which
Messrs. Booth and Barrett have beea
travelling; q Pullman sleeper. . day
coach and baggage car. The railroad
company not only furnished and ran
the train free of EXPENSE to Booth and
Jarrett, but they had printed . :" Sou
venir Itinerary" of the trip, giving .
full LIST Of the points OF interest on the
road, ending with the arrival At Den
yer. The business OF Booth and Bar
rett at Salt Lake vas enormous; the
receipts for the two nights being $92s3.
In beaver the advance sale Of seats
before the arrival OF the company WAS
over SIC 600.
The St. James, Gasette says-This
is how Mr.. Lowell's " Bigi0w Papers "
came to be written: "Whl the intro
duction to the first series of the Biglow
Papers was going through the press
received worsi from the printer that
there was bla page left which must
be filled. l sat down at once and i'm
provised another fictitious notice OF
the press" in which, because verse
would Till up space more cheapiy than
prose, l inserted an extract from
supposed ballad Of Mr.. Biglow. KEEP
10 copy Of IL and the printer, as di-
rected, cut it of hen the gap was
filed. Presently beg 70 receive
letters asking for the rest OF it, some
times for the balance of il. / had
none; but, to answer such demands, l
patched conclusion upon it in later
edition. Afterwards. being asked To
write it out AZ an autograph for the
Baltimore Sanitary Commission Fair,
| added other verses, into some of
which infused little more sent ment
In a hotneiy way. and after fashion
completed It by sketching In the char
aeters and making it connected
story