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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-15
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OWNER LEAVING CITY-1lOO block 5
GUtn: bedrooms inClosed porch modern
an ne bought $500 cheaper than prevailing
prices. MICHAEL y. MALONEY 1921 S
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$500 BLOCK MANTUA AvE,--s r, poro6.
win finance. Griscom. 21oo Catharias ~
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

Brutus Booth possessed. To mis- last
day the younger Booth venerated |
the memory of the nobility and up
rightness Of his father.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

Brutus Booth possessed. To mis- last
day the younger Booth venerated
the memory of the nobility and up-
rightness Of his father.
On the Stage at l6
In his sixteenth year Edwin
Booth made his first appearance on
any stage. His father was playing
a season at the Museum in Boston.
The prompter, who had been cast
to appear in small part, induced
Booth to appear in his stead. Keep
ing his intention from his father
until a short time before the per-
formance, Booth appeared IS Tres
sill, on September 10, 1S49, rs he
and the prompter had planned; but
it is reported that he was inaudible
beyond the center of the house.
AS so many actor fathers have
done, Junius Brutus Booth urged
his SOIl IlOL 10 make tuC S-dSe ulS
livelihood. But at Providence in the
same season he made his reply by
appearing as Cassie in his fathers
production Of "Othello." For two
years he remained in the company
of his father. Then followed four
years on the western coast, lnclud-
ing trip to Australia.
Booths first substantial successes
were gained during this period; and
they justified his return to the East
to appear as Henry V at the Rich
mond Theater in 1853, the first per-
formance of the play of that name
in America. At that time Jefferson
and other notable players were ap-
pearing at the Richmond Theater.
But his first New York appearance
lad been made in 1850 at the Ma
tional Theater, in Chatham Street.
At the San Francisco Theater. on
April 25, 1853, Edwin Booth enacted
Hamlet for the first time at his
benefit. In 1857, following success
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
tour Of Edwin Booth became a series

tour Of Edwin Booth became a series
of ovations. Three separate fortunes
were paid into his purse by the fol-
lowers of his art. The greater part
of the first two were disbursed in
the construction and management of
his Sixth Avenue theater, the Booth,
which was opened at an expense ex-
ceeding $1,000,0O0, half a million
more than Booth expected. For a
number of years the actor carried
the burden Of this debt, paying at
the rate of $4,000 a year. At his
death it was found that he had left
$605,000. He had paid the outstand-
ing debt against his theater, he had
borne all the expenses of his large
theatrical company, he had given his
daughter liberal marriage dover,
he had made many unknown bene-
factions and he had presented the
Players, fully endowed, to a group
of allied artists. This reward had
Edwin Booth from the American
people; and he never catered to
low tastes, nor did he ever play for
cheap popularity by debasing his
standards.
On Booths fifty-sixth birthday a
group Of intimate friends gave a
supper party for him at the Players.
The table was heaped with flowers,
among which was a little handful
of violets from an old friends daugh-
ter, who was celebrating her fourth
birthday anniversary on the same
day, and a bunch of red roses From
the Servants Of the Club" When
Booth went to his room that night
the roses and the violets were the
only flowers that he took with him.
Of the actors generosity Hutton
has left this account:
when an old friend and fellow
player died Edwin bought lot for
his remains, buried him, placed a
handsome monument over his head,
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

total was thirty-eight. In that year
enough votes were scattered among
three actor candidates to have
assured the election of the leading
genius of the American stage had
the electors understood the unique
position which Booth occupies in the
history Of the theater of the English
speaking people and voted accord
ingly. Edwin Forrest and Joseph
Jefferson split the vote and de-
tracted twenty-three from Booth.
The dates at which the names of the
three actors first came before the
electors, together with table of the
votes received in the several cleo
tions, follows:
1905 1910 1915
Edwin Booth ........ 80 3S
Edwin Forrest ...... 6 8 2
Joseph Jefferson. 500. 21
1t is probable that the name of
John Mccullough will appear on the
ballot this year, as a fourth repre-
sentative of the stage.
Edwin Booth was born November
'13, 1888, at Bellair. Hartford
County, Md, on the farm of
his. father, Junius Brutus Booth,
known in stage history as the elder
Booth. Early in his boyhood he be-
gan to travel with his illustrious
father during the latter's many
tours in the great roles of the Eng
lish classical drama. The older
Booth established reputation on
the British as we'll as the American
stage which made him the rival of
the brilliant Edmund Kean.
This youthful association with
the best in the theater did much to
prepare Edwin Booth for the career
he was later to elect; and the boys
intimacy with the father established
in Booth profound respect for the
cxcellent qualities which Junius
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

of the drama, was prepared as an
open letter to the electors of the
Hall of Fame:
More than a score Of years has
elapsed since the death of Edwin
Booth, greatest of Americas actors and
rare among her men. His name was
ever breathed with reverence by those
of his profession, and thousands are
yet living who with pride remember
the power of his genius. By very
study of his life and art new gen.
Grafton is inspired to a profound re-
spect for the lofty ideals to which as
man and actor he was ever servant.
Edwin Booth took up the great ira
dition of the theater inherited from
the noble line of English actors-Bur-
bage, Betterton, Garrick, Edmund
Kean, Macready. By unceasing toll,
by persistent devotion to the best in
dramatic art and by excellence in the
quality he professed, he made himself
the peer of his predecessors, and he
established a deep and abiding admi-
ration in Shakespeare's own country
for Americas contribution to the ira
dition. Representing the best that
America has achieved in that wonder
fully potent social force, the theater,
Edwin Booth deserves of his fellow
countrymen whatever of recognition
and veneration lies in their power to
bestow
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Refused To Be Bothered

"With the never-missing pipe he
sat in an easy chair, restful and con-
tent, talking Of old times and old
seasons in which he then was begin
ming almost exclusively to live, when
the waiter entered the room and put
visiting card into his hand. Tell
the lady that Mr.. Booth is engaged
was the quiet remark, and he con-
tinued the conversation where it had
been interrupted. The caller was an
influential leader of society in New
York and a charming woman person
ally, and | demonstrated with him
for not receiving her and her equally
charming daughter, who was with
her. But he couldn't be bothered!
''In a few moments there came an
other card-this time that of a
prominent man of affairs, a man
known honorably throughout the
country, busy man, whose call was
compliment in itself; but 'Mr.
Booth was lying down. Still another
card was presented, two cards, those
of man and his wife whom nobody
could afford to refuse to receive. But
Mr.. Booth was engaged At last
card came, followed by the request
to Show the lady up!' I put on my
overcoat to leave the room, but was
told to wait. The lady was friend
of mine | would be glad to see and
who would be glad to see me,
Curious to discover the identity
Of the person so distinguished, did
wait, and Black Betty entered, the
old negro servant who had nursed
his daughter when she was a baby,
who had taken the most tender care
of his wife when she was slowly and
unhappily dying, and who had been
lifelong, devoted, faithful friend
to them all She had left his service
after his daughters marriage and
had recently been married herself.
She kissed 'Massa' Edwin's hand
she was born a slave-she shook
hands cordially with me, she was
placed in the most comfortable rock
ing chair and she began to talk ia
miliariy about her own affairs and
his. She couldn't afford to 90 to
the theater no mo- she said, but
she wanted her husband to see
'Massa' Edwin play; could she have
pass for that night?
He wrote the pass at once. which
she read and returned to him with a
shake of her head. They was only
'niggas; the do'keeper wouldn't let
no niggas into the orchestra seats :
pass to the gallery was good
enough for themi' A second paper
she received silently, but with an
other and still more decided shake Of
the head. | saw it over her shoulder
and it read: Pass my friend, Betty
-, and party to my box thi,
evening. Edwin Booth"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Hid His Charities

Booths manner of befriending the
helpless and his reticence about his
benefactions is illustrated by an
other instance quoted from Hutton:
"Another old friend Of Booths, a
superannuated actor and a very
aged man, lunched with him one day
at the Players. The weather was
threatening as he left and his host
sent him home in carriage. The
guest was very much affected when
they parted and tried to say some
thing in a half-tearful way, which
Booth would not let him utter. After
he had gone some one spoke of the
gentleness and sweetness of the vet
Grams character, and said it was to
he hoped that he had managed to
save enough to keep his body and
his soul together for the little time
that was left to him here. 'Oh, yes,
he's all right replied Booth. He
has something to support him COM
fortably as long as he lives, poor
dear. And l am glad of it, After
Booth had passed away it was
learned that the something
than enough-was furnished by
Booth, who had invested $4,000 in an
annunity to cheer his fellow players
declining years.
In the center Of Gramercy Park,
overlooked by the very windows at
which it was Booths pleasure to sit
during his last years at the Players,
rests the large statue of Edwin
Booth as Hamlet which the MEM
bers of the club erected in honor of
their benefactor. The statue, which
is the work of the sculptor Edmond
c. Quinn, member Of the Players,
shows Hamlet standing in front of
curved chair, his cloak falling
back upon the chair from which he
has just risen. At it's unveihng, on
Booths birthday anniversary in
1918, Professor Brander Matthews
pointed out that it was the second
statue Of an actor to be erected in
New York City, the other being that
of Shakespeare, in Central Park.
Edwin Booth was as modest of his
achievements as he was great in
them, and the notoriety which
it was inevitable that his act.
ing should bring him was always a
source of annoyance if not distress
He disliked to travel in a streetca,
or omnibus not because Of any feel
ing of aloofness but through a dis.
taste for public recognition and at.
tention. The companionship of the
open-minded, sincere and humble
next to that of his chosen friends
was more pleasant to him than the
social demonstrations of the fashion.
able or of the famous. Something o.
this attitude may be seen in the Incl
dent which one of Booths friend:
witnessed and recorded:
4 called upon Booth one after
noon at the Albemarle Hotel in New
York, during an engagement of hi.
at the Fifth Avenue Theater. Hi,
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wife was dead, his daughter was
married and living in a distant city
and he was quite alone and lonely.
I brought into him little fresh air.
something from the outside world,
and change Of thought; and I was
made to feel that my presence was
not unweIcome.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
The Vote Split

When, in 1910, the name of Edwin
Booth was first presented to the cleo
tors to the Hall of Fame he received
thirty votes. Five years later his
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full engagement in Boston, he brought
his Richard III" to New York, ap-
pearing as a star for the first time,
at Burton's Metropolitan Theater,
later known as the Winter Garden.
Soon after he played Hamlet for the
first time in New York City. The next
few years were occupied with num-
Der of ventures in England and in
America. But the sensation Of his
career up to that time occurred dur
ing the season of 1864-'65, and took
the form of the longest run ever re-
corded for Shakespearean play
anywhere. Booth played Hamlet one
hundred times, consecutively, at the
Winter Garden Theater, concluding
his enga cement on March "a, 1865.
This was the first of series Of bril-
liant revivals which he made from
time to time, the most artistic of
which probably was that effected at
the opening of his theater on Sixth
Avenue and Twenty-third Street,
January S, 1870.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
The Wish of the Stage

II the sentiment of the people of
lae theater bears any weight with
The electors, Booth will carry his
work IN the drama to a place of
record and repute in the monument
"here the craftsmanship of Jeffer-
son and of Lincoln, the military
glory of Grant and of Lee, the
literature Of Poe and of Longfellow.
ana the inventions of Fulton and of
worse are recognized and approved
as famous contributions to our mod
efh civilization. In May the state
menu which SMiss Marlowe signed
was drawn up by the writer of this
article and was submitted to many
OF those who are engaged in making
the theatrical history of this genera
'ien. Their response can best be
characterized by the common ques-
~0D At those dining at The Players
~aen the statement was read:
Is it possible that Edwin Booth
Is not already in the Hall of Fame?"
wherever the theater is held
dearly in the affections of men
booth has long been enshrined in
the hearts and minds of men as the
greatest genius in that potent social
force, the American theater.
This statement, signed by more
than three hundred Of the leaders
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purchased a house and furnished it
fully for the widow and gave her a
liberal income, continued to her
after his own DEATH
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

tOepdrtment OF DrGnadttc Art,
Washington Square College, Ne1c
York Uniuersity) s
<lTF the Hall wants to be
famous institution, let it
inscribe the name of Ed
win Booth upon one of it's
bronze tablets; it can add nothing
to his fame" said Julia Marlowe.
placing her signature in the lead-off
position on the statement urging the
candidacy of Booth for niche in
the colonnade reserved for Amer
iea's famous men.
Miss Marlowe's comment is a fair
sample of the attitude which the
NTH quinquennial election to the
Hall Of Fame is arousing in the
minds of people who in former cleo
tons have shown little or no interest
IN the selection of names for Amer
lca's Westminster Abbey" During
tne months of July and August,
While the electors are balloting on
the names of nearly hundred can
didates for bronze memorials in the
huge colonnade which encircles the
buildings and grounds of New York
University, at University Heights,
much is being said among our lead
ing actors, writer's, artists, clergy,
and educators about the qualities of
the man and the achievements of
the actor Edwin Booth; and it is
Oeing urged by many that the be-
lated recognition of the. electors to
the Hall of Fame be given to the
lie and work Of that genius of the
stage.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Urge His Election

Recognizing that the Hall of Fame
was designed by its founders to record
the names of those who have achieved
fame and who have best deserved to
have that fame recorded, we who sign
this statement believe that the great
work done by great man in a great
art ought to recommend the name of
Edwin Booth to the trustees and GUS
todians of that institution, and we
heartily urge for inscription upon the
tablets of Americas Hall of Fame the
name of Americas greatest actor, Ed
win Booth
Julia Marlowe Albert B. Paine
John Drew Albert Bigelow
George M. Cohan Paine
Frank Bacon Charles Ram
E. H. Sothern Kennedy
Henry Miller Oliver Hereford
Walter Hampden Percy Mackaye
Blanche Bates Edmond T, Quinn
Edith Wynne Karl Reiland
Matthison Brander Matthews
Wilton Lackaye Louis K. Ans
George Arliss pacher
Howard Kyle Thomas w.
Gladys Hanson Churchill
O. P. Heggie F. F. Mackay
Ruth Chatterton Rennold Wolf
Fay Banter John S. Phillips
Frank Gilmore Henry Mills
Lester Lonergan Louis Shipman
Zelda Sears Paul r. Reynolds
James r. Powers Joseph Howlan
George Faucet Hines
Bruce McRae Henry Bacon
Mildred Holland Edward S. Van Zile
David Belasco Charles II. Genung
Daniel Frohman Richard Butler
Lee Shubert Giaenzer
Stuart Walker Edwin w. Dunn
George G. Tyler Richard A. Purdy
Sam Harris
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
His Star Parts

Edwin Booths repertory remained
fixed for~many of his best years at
seventeen parts, twelve of which
were Shakespearean. Of the latter
he was presminent in his own time
as Othello, Iago, Lear, Hamlet, Rich
ard III, Macbeth, Shylock and VOL
sey. He enacted with success the
characters Of Romeo, Benedict,
Petruchio and Richard II; but these,
with Wolsey, were not retained in
his repertory very long.
Edwin Booth brought to close
in 1891 a career of more than forty
years on the stage, during which
time he never clouded his title of
artist and gentleman. He deserved
we'll of the public and the people
were not unmindful of this debt. A
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
By Randolph Somerville

Department of Dramatic Art,
Washington Square College, Neac
York U1siuersity)
Bisbee daily review., 1920-06-12
Mining and Financial NeUs
 REVIEW WIRE
STOCKS AND BONDS

NEW YORK; June 11.-Politics dominated today's stock market but the trend of prices was unmistakably upward form the outset on a compara- lively large and varied turnover Out standing features comprised Crucible, Lackawanna, Replogle, Betilehem and Vanddium Steels, Harvester. Chicago Pneumatic Tool, Baldwin, Haskell and Barker, Pressed Steel Car. Mexican and Pan-American petroleums, Stude- baker and Chandler motors, Industrial Alcohol, American Linseed, American Woolen, Sumatra Tobacco, Retail Stores and United States Food Prod ucts.
 Extreme gains in this diversified list ranged from two to almost ten points, Crucible overlapping all and closing at a net advance of almost eight points. Sales amounted to 325,- coo shares.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-06-12
BRING IT TO AN ISSUE

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Bisbee daily review., 1920-06-12
WEAK MARKETS
 FEATURE WEEK

NEW YORK, June 11.-Dun's to- morrow will say:
 While national political uncertain ties and the near approach of summer have imposed some further restraint upon business activities. price consid eratons and transportation difficulties remain the dominant factors in the situation. Relief from the traffic con- gestion has continued. but does not permit of full freedom in mercantile and industrial operations.
 The wide publicity given to the re- duction sales at retail counters has seemingly created the impression among some interests that in practi- Cally no other quarter has there been evidence of price yielding; yet certain important commodities have weakened appreciably in wholesale lines and others are easy and some quotations that are either unchanged or little altered would disclose size able declines if sufficient trading were being done to really establish mar ket. Weekly bank clearings, S7,647.- 5O2,OS9.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-06-12
BASEBALL
 TEAMS ID MEET.
C. & A. Nine Will Play at Warren Tomorrow Against
 Bisbee Tossers

One of the best ball games of the season is expected tomorrow after noon at Warren park when the c. & A. team of Lowell crosses bats with the Camp Harry J. Jones team of Douglas. This team is one of the strongest army teams in the southern part of the state. The locals have played in one of the fastest games yet played here, against KObey's team two weeks ago. This was an errorIess game, and the Lowel boys held Kobey's men to one run.
 The c. x A. team has been greatly strengthened by the addition of three University men, Erb, Eason, and Brin- ley. The C. & A. lineup for Sunday will be as follows: Lawrenson, ss :; Erb, C; McClay, 2b; Cotton, 3b: Reel, of; Wilson. If; Salmon. If; Brlnley, Eason and Tate pitchers.