Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once upon a time we started plays at 12 o'clock. We would not give performances on Saturday night, for the Sabbath began at dark. In those days actors were looked upon as almost vagabonds. When Edwin Booth maintained what was then a magnificent theatre in New York a minister wrote him, asking how he might enter by a private door. So the public morality has changed. But the theatre is no better now than fifty years...
...Finances in those days were a problem. Once Lawrence Barrett played six tragedies in a week and made $3.46. Edwin Booth in his best days was glad to make $1000 in one week, and that covered expenses of his whole company. I commend the theatre to you in both its past and its present for instruction as well as amusement...
...also indicted. So was one Edwin S. Booth, former Solicitor of the Department of the Interior. Apparently the suit is directed chiefly against them...
...Prussian Minister of Justice Zehnhof, follow by Acting President Walter Simons, to vote for a successor to himself. Next came Foreign Minister and Frau tav Stresemann. Dr. Stresemann began to make out his ballot on a table, was told by a clerk that he must do it in a booth. With a sigh and a terrific squeeze; the portly Doktor entered a small booth. At Potsdam, Prince Friedrich, second son of the ex-Kaiser, and a number of former courtiers apathetically recorded their votes. From Munich, in the south, came the that General Ludendorff had refused to vote for himself...
...tell the Theatregoers of the actors and actresses who appeared at the Museum. The very names ought to interest your generation, for I'm sure they still are of interest to mine. There were, to name a few, the elder and younger Sothern, John Drew, the elder and younger Booth, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, Lawrence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson, the Wallacks, E. L. Davenport, and Eleanora Duse...