The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-05

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1887. His success was ehronieled as "a
sensation hitherto unequaled by any
native born actor, Edwin Forrest alone
excepted. - During this engagement
Booth appeared also as Sir Giles Over.
reach, Riehelieu, Shylock, King Lear,
Romeo, Hamlet, Claude Melnotte. Sir
Edward Mortimer, Petrucio, st. Pierre,
Lucius Brutus, Pescara and in The
Stranger. The following August he
again appeared at the Metropolitan
Theater and made new friends. Dur
ing this engagement Lawrence Barrett
made his first appearance in New York,
acting Lord Lowell. At the close OF
this engagement Booth travelled extern.
sively in the south and west with great
success.
Booth was married to Mary Devlin in
New York, July z, 1860, and soon after
set out for England. He played at the
Haymarket Theater in London Septem-
Der, 1861, under the management of
Blackstone, who insisted that he should
begin with Shylock. He was received
kindly by the public, but coldly by the
critics, and after trip to Paris for
recreation he returned to his native
land.
May IA, 1864, Booth began prepare.
tion for an elaborate production of
Hamlet, which was brought out the fol-
lowing 2lst of November, and enjoyed
run of 100 consecutive nights at the
| Winter Garden. The production was
shifted March "a, 1865, to the stage OF
the Boston Theater, where Edwin
Booth, on the fateful April IA, suffering
from the wild excitement that followed
| he e I In
| by his maniaeal brother, John Wilkes
Booth, left the stage at once and dis
appeared from view. The shock to his
proud, sensitive and taciturn nature
was such, it is said, he never would
/ have emerged from that retirement had
not pecuniary obligations demanded
professional industry.
REAPPEARS AS HAMLET.
He reappeared January 3, 1866, Mt the
Winter Garden in Hamlet. Public
sympathy was with him and the old
interest in the artist revived. He was
welcomed with cheers and every demon
stration of pleasure. The press treated
him cordially. Booth was encouraged
! to aew effort and continued his event
full career until the day he was strick-
en-. In his ripper years Booth was more
closely associated with the part OF
Hamlet than any other and was con-
ceded by the best critics to be the
greatest impersonator of the "melan-
choly Dane the world ever knew.
At the close of the simple, yet inn
pressive, obsequies of the dead actor in
/ the Little Church Round the Corner
the body was placed in hearse and,
accompanied by the pallbearers, taken
to the Grand Central depot, thence to
be transported to it's last resting place
at Mount Auburn. Before the sexton
of the church had finished tolling the
death-knell and the congregation of the
deceased actors mourning friends had
! passed from the sanctuary words were
being flashed over the wires from
Washington conveying to- all parts OF
the country news of the collapse of the
old Ford Theater building, the scene OF
the horrible tragedy in which John
Wilkes Booth, Edwin Is brother, assas-
snated President Lincoln. The build
ing was crowded with clerks of Uncle
Sam s War Department when the crash
came. About twenty-one persons were
killed and many others MANNED and in
jured. A strange coincidence in the
ending of the eventful career of Edwin
Booth