Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1890-08-25
ELSIE LESLIE.


Wyatt and the Los Angeles.
Manager Harry G. Wyatt will leave
for New York on Thursday, for stay OF
several weeks. His address will be at
Klaw and Erlander's dramatic agency.
Mr.. Wyatt has already secured num-
Der of first class attractions for the Los
Angeles theatres winter season, and
while in New York will close connec-
tions which will be of great profit to
himself and resulting pleasure to theatre
goers. During his absence the Los
Angeles theatre will be thoroughly reno
Yated, the chairs will be reafranged, and
all the known appliances for comfort and
safety introduced. The house will prob
ably not be opened until November.
For the opening Manager Wyatt has
engaged an attraction unequalled as a
drawing card, but which fer business
reasons he does not care to name.
Clara Morris Remembrance of John
Wilkes Booth.
The writer of this article, while chat
ting with Clara Morris and her manager
Edwin III. Price at the actresses beau;i-
full home in Riverdale few days ago,
noticed copy of the January Century,
open at page 452 lying on a table. The
writer asked if Miss Morris had been
reading Mr.. Jefferson's autobiography.
emo" she replied, - have not yet read
what Mr.. Jefferson has to say in this
number, although have read his charm
ing chapters with pleasure and
profit, as they have been published up
to this number. The fact is that was
reading Nicolay and Hays chapter on
Lincoln, and was reading what they
have to say on john Wilkes Booth.
Poor fellow So rash So impetuous! 1t
is all very terrible and so sad F" You
knew John Wilkes Booth" the writer
asked. Eyes, and this story" laying
her hand upon the magazine, has taken
me back many years to the theater in
Cleveland, where l first saw and ad-
mired him, 1t was impossible to see
him and not admire him; it was equally
impossible to know him and not love
him. was only child at the time,
and although 1 had played several small
parts, was really only one of the ballet,
and my salary, if it can be called by
that name, was fifty cents night. My
what dashing, elegant, handsome fell
low he was, with his perfectly formed
figure, graceful in every NOV ement, his
pale. dark face and his big, flashing
dark eyes, which had all the light and
changes which are supposed to be pos
sible only to the deeper blue eyes. He
was gentleman in speech. manner and
thought as he was in bearing. He was
a. great favorite with the men and the
women adored him.
He was not bravo, commonplace
desperate, as some would make him
nor was he, as Messrs. Nicolay and Hay
state, a man whose value as an actor
lay rather. in his romantic beauty of per-
son than in any talent or industry he
possessed. He had more than mere
talent as an actor. In his soul the fire
of genius burned brightly, and he
promised to top them all in the pro-
fession into which he was born. He
had, by inheritance, the fire, the dash,
the impetuosity, the temperament and
the genius of his great father, and the
more nearly resembled the elder Booth
in those qualities which 60 to make up a
great actor than any of the other sons Of
that eminent sire. His father was his
only superior as Richard LII. Who can
say what he might have been to the
stage had he lived until his great
natural powers had fully ripened
would not trust myself to make these
statements concerning his power as an
actor was not my own judgment of him
supported by the testimony old actors