Word: booths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Salvini and Booth acted together in the Boston Theatre. The acting was simply marvelous, for both actors were influenced by the suppressed excitement and deep interest of the audience...
...Booth, W. T. Denison...
...Booth, Denison...
...Edwin Booth was content, to a great extent, with the traditional business of the part, but he often varied the arrangement of the portraits in the closet scene. Sometimes he had both portraits on the wall, and sometimes he had one portrait on the wall, and a miniature round his own neck. The one striking bit of new business added by Mr. Booth was his uniform practice already mentioned of holding the cross shaped hilt of his sword before him as he followed the apparation. Mr. Irving has added, among several salient details, the action of Hamlet in rushing...
...lines, continued the lecturer, no one speaks them in our day as Mr. Booth did. He spoke in verse as if it were his native tongue, and his voice vibrated not only on the ear but on the soul. He was the last idealist in tragedy. Mr. Irving poses as an idealist, but no one can see him in "Louis XI," or "Dubosc," without thinking what a very realistic idealist he must be. Mr. Irving's speaking of the text in Hamlet, as wherever this actor is called upon to utter blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily...