Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-04-29

hardship. But his genius at length tri-
umphed over every obstacle One Of
his earliest and best successes was oh
tanned rs Sir Edward Mortimer in The
Iron Chest For a time he Travelled in
California conveying his wardrobe for
this piece in a trunk fashioned and
painted to resemble chest made Of
iron. His trip to Australia, in 1884,
was made with a dramatic company
that included the popular actress, Miss
Laura heene, as leading woman. Pre-
yious to this he had, IN his brothers
theatre at San Francisco, acted Richard
Ill, Shylock, Macbeth and Hamlet, had
made an extraordinary impression and
acquired abundant local reputation. At
this time his citing began to receive
thoughtful attention from learned and
critical authorities.
He stopped at the Sandwich Islands
on his return voyage from Auspralia
to San Francisco, and in Honolulu
played Hamlet before the king, the king
sitting in a chair of state in the wings
In the laEt act the mock king Of Dem
mark was compelled to borrow the
chair from the real king to complete
the scene.
Arriving in San Francisco he reap
peared at the metropolitan theater.
then managed by the former wife Of
Edwin Forrest, who had obtained a
divorce from her husband and resumed
her maiden name, Catherine Sinclair
Here, for the first time in America
was played the part Of Raphael in
The Marble Heart. In 1850 he took
leave of California, being cheered on
his way by several farewell benefits
organized and conducted by one of his
earliest ana best friends, NJ =. Butler,
Of Sacramento, and his steps We're
now turned toward the cities of the
east lie first appeared at the Front
Street theater, Baltimore, and then
made a rapid tour of all the large cities
Of the south, being everywhere well
cciyed. In April. 1857, he appeared
at the Boston theater as Sir Giles Over
reach ia A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
and his great success ON this occasion,
Away regarded by hism as the turning
to persist in the resolute endeavOr to
win the first place MS a tragic actor
His subsequent career was marked by
many vicissitudes Of personal expe-
riencc, and by fluctuations Of fortune.
but it was one Of lofty eudeavOr and
of continuous advancement. On May
"A, 1857, he came forward in New York
at Burtons Metropolitan theater as
Richard III, and in the following
August he was again seen there in %
round of great characters, i'm all Of
which he displayed his brilliant ability
On July Z, 1860, he married Miss Mary
Devlin, of Troy, y. Y, an actress. whom
he had met three years before in Rich
mOnd, Va, with whom he shortly after,
ward made a visit to England Their
only child, n daughter, Edwina, was
born in Fulham, December .. 1861
After their return to America Mrs
Booth. sinking under sudden illness,
died at Dorchester Mass
While in England Booth appeared at
the London ulymarkct theatcr under
the management of j. b. Blackstone,
enactiug Shylock, Sir Giles and Rich
lieu. The latter part, with which, al
most as much as with Hamlet, his name
is identified, he had first assumed at
Sacramento i'm July, 1856 His first
performance Of il was much admired
in London and also in Liverpool md
Manchester Where ne aftCrwlrd acted
ON returning to America Booth
became manager of the Winter Garden
thcater. New York, which had been
Burton's Metropolitan. but which Dion
BOucjcaulr had leased refitted and re
nImed Here Booth appeared on De
cember % 1862 ana with this house
he was associated until March %, 1861,
when it was destroyed by fire. A de-
tailed record of his brilliant successes
at his theater would make a yoluwe.
Here he effected magnificent proluc,
tonS Of Hamlet, Othello The Ncn h1nt
of Venice, Richelieu. and )ther plays,
and here he accomplished the wOndpr-
ful achievement Of running Hamlet for
100 consecutive nights, an exploit that
was commemmoruted by the prescutu-
ton to him of a handsome gold medal
suitably inscribed and offered in behalf
Of leading citizens Of New York. i'm
recent days such an artistic feat wuld
not be so difficult of accomplishment;
at that time it was an extraordinary
exploit Booths brother-iu-laW, the
celebrated comedian, John 5. Clarke
was his partner i'm the management
of the Winter Garden theater, and they
asSocilted with themselves 0u old
journalist and theatrical agent William
Stuart real name Edward O'Flaherty,
formerly of Galway, Ireland, but lhen
an exile. Clarke and Booth were as
associated IN the management Of tle
Walnut Street theatcr Philadelphia,
from the summer of 1868 till March,
1870. when the interest Of the later
was purchased by the former Tie
hmdredlnight run Of Hamlet extended
from November n, 1864, till March "A,
1865. on April %, 1sG4, for the benefit
OF the fund for erecting a Shakespeare
monument in Central Park, Booth PRO
G11ce3 Romeo and Juliet and enacted