Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hampden, only prominent actor-manager in the U. S. theatre,* was last week elected president of The Players. He succeeds the late John Drew and, according to the tradition of the club, will hold the post until death. Other presidents have been Edwin Booth, the founder; Joseph Jefferson...
...Year's Eve, 1887, a group of friends gathered at Edwin Booth's home (remodeled by Stanford White) in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Shortly before midnight he disclosed to them a plan dear to his heart. He would found an actor's club, to which would be admitted men in the varied arts, and in which the best of the writing, painting and music world might come to learn that the actor, too, is a gentleman. Mr. Booth was distressed at the slight repute in which his profession was held before the world. He would give his home...
Every year at 11:30 on New Year's Eve, the members gather. A representative actor reads Booth's dedication speech, which ends close to the stroke of midnight. At that stroke Walter Oettel, Booth's dresser in the theatre, now the superintendent of the club, passes a cup in which the members drink the health of this hale old tradition...
This will hardly happen to Herman W. Booth, for apparently he had no customers...
...keeping his seat for 13 years and doing little or nothing with it, Mr. Booth profited by at least...