Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...
Daughter Catherine Booth was there hoping for speeches and emotion. But the High Council was grimly silent. For two hours Lawyer William Allen Jowitt argued that General Booth should not be deposed. The High Council listened politely and then deposed...
Sister Evangeline Booth also was there. She had often toyed with the idea of being herself elected General. But when the Council elected Commissioner Higgins she was not disappointed. Indeed, she said, "I am almost intoxicated with...
...General Booth continues his battle he will attack the validity of the Salvation Army's 1904 deed poll which so far has legalized 'his ousting. This document states that seven commissioners may call a general meeting and oust a general in cases of continued illness, bankruptcy, lunacy. Of course, the High Council ousted General Booth because he was unwell...
...General Booth has worn no other suit but the Salvation Army uniform for 54 years. It seemed likely last week that he would battle to the last court not to change his clothes...