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

New York, April 2O.-Edwin Booths
condition was reported late tonight
to be such as to call for no immediate
alarm As Dr. Smith LEFT the club
house he said that Booth is not in crit
ical condition and he is going to leave
him in charge Of The nurse for tonight.
During the Day.
New York, April 2O.-After Edwin
Booths seizure last night he fell asleep
at O'Clock and slept easily III il $3.50
this morning. Dr. Smith called t that
time. Booth awoke as the physician
entered the room, and when asked how
he felt by the doctor replied: Fairly
well, doctor The actor was able to
talk quite naturally Or. Smith said
that possibly Booth would be able to
sit up today The doctors say they are
not alarmed over their distinguished
patients condition. They say the eff.
fects Of the attack will be temporary
only and that he viii be up and around
in "a few days. Mr. Booth slept the
greater part Of the time today and
scented To rest easily But he appears
TO be almost lfelesS. Although the doc
tors insist that he talked with them this
morning il is reported that Mr. BOOTH
has not yet recovered the power of
speech, The impression prevails that
the great tragedian's days are num-
bCred.
Booth gave his last performance at
the Academy Of Music ia Brooklyn "a
April 3, 1891, just two years after the
Rochester attack. His last appearance
IN public was when ne attended sal
yinps performance at the Metropolitan
opera house ON April 3.
/ Edwin Booth was an actor by nature
and 10y inheritance. He was born on
his fathers farm, in Maryland, sixty
years ago, on NOV IS, 1888, and
his hisuionic record began i'm the class
room John sleeper Clarke was his
/ sehoolmate, and these two, instead of
mounting the platform on recitation
days ana delivering "Narys Little
Lamb, " would, with wonderful accuracy
give the quarrel scene from Julius
Caesar" or other scenes from Shake.
speare. During their school days Mn.
Booth and Mr. Clarke, so the story
goes, inluglratcd an entertainment in
which Booth recited from Richard
/ H." Macbeth Hamlet" ana Julius
Caesar" Between the Rotations both
young men BACKED MP aud sang negro
melodies. and from this little incident
arose that erroneous story about Mr..
Booth once singing as an end man I'm a
minstrel show When M school he
travelled with his father Jmius b .tus
Booth He was reticent and singular.
profound and sensitive. and the ecceu-
trio genius Of the father found in the
son au object of peculiar sympathy.
They were deeply attached to each
other from the first, and while Edwin
was vet very young his father made n
companion of him in professional jour
ucyS It was i'm the course of one of
these tours that Edwin made his FIRST
regular appearance upon the stage at
the Boston Museum, Sept 10, 1910.
The play was Gihher's versions Of
/ Shakespoarc'S Richard III, and the
youth came forward in the little part of
TrcsSil At first the elder Booth OPP
posed his sons choice of the stage, but
ultimately reliuQuished his opposition.
The boy pcrscvcrod, and presently,
suU acting i'm his fathers train he ap-
peared at Providence. at Philadelphia
aud mt other places as Cassie i'm Othello
ana rs MILFORD In The Iron Chest His
representation of the latter character
was particularly striking He continued
To act with his father for more than
two years after his advent mt the BoS
ton museum.
His first appearance on the New York
stage was ON Sept. ~, 1850, nj the
National theatre. Chatham street as
Wiuord. At the same theatre in 1851,
his faher being IN, he suddenly and
promptly took the place of the elder
traCedian and for the first time in his
life enacted the part Of Richard i'll
Tbs effort, remarkably successful for
q comparative novice, was hailed rs the
Indication Of great talent and rs the
augury of brilliant future I'm the
summer Of 1852 he accompanied his
father 10 san Francisco, where his
elder brother Junius Brutus Booth, Jr,
had already established himself rs an
actor and n theatrical manager and
where the three now acted I'm company.
rhpv visited other cities and fine elder
Roath reInained in California for about
three months
one night in Sacramento, seeing Ed.
win dressed for Jatlier i'm Venice Pre-
served. the elder Booth said 20 him.
You look Ike Hamlet; why don't You
play it?"
Ebe SUGGESTION was acted upou and
with what result the rheatregoiu-
world 80 three continents wgIl knows
Just as the name IF Jun.us Butus
Booth is mseplrahly associated win
Richard III. So the name Of Edwin
Booth Is identified with tho melancholy
prince
In 1>52 the father and son parted for
taa lgst time The California period Of
Tdwn Booths career la>hl until the
aueua ~ 1856 ma included d trim d
Australia The yUu- actor 1t first