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When an exhibition of some original manuscripts of Dylan Thomas opens later this spring at Houghton Library, the Welsh poet will take his place beside Harvard's first charter and Edwin Booth's last cigar. Within the walls of the red-brick, air-tight, thief-proof building are not only one of the world's best known collections of rare books, but also University documents and historical curios...
Movie No. 1 is the film biography of the Booths, the brilliant theatrical family that produced in Edwin Booth the man often called "the greatest American actor," and in his brother, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. The story begins with Edwin (Richard Burton) as a boy of eleven already playing the nurse to his father, Junius Brutus Booth (Raymond Massey), a magnificent ruin, mad at least north-northwest and crazy for drink at all points of the compass, as he careers across the wilderness to be Hamlet in mining camps. Richard to the river towns, and Lear...
...ordered out 8,000 soldiers and dispatched patrols in every direction except the one which Booth took (Stanton erroneously assumed that the wartime 9 o'clock closing of the Navy Yard bridge was still enforced). The telegraph went dead. Army units searched and arrested blindly...
...witnesses who streamed in and out of Stanton's improvised HQ all identified Booth as the assassin. In a belated roundup of stablekeepers, army troops found a man who had kept Booth's horse for him till late afternoon...
Finally, someone remembered a month-old tip that a plot was being hatched in a boardinghouse run by Mrs. Mary Surratt.* Authorities hurried to the address, found documents and clues that persuaded Stanton that Actor Booth was responsible. As day broke, Stanton ordered all exits from the capital checked again, and decided that Booth had probably got away into southern Maryland. Then, as troopers rode out along the Potomac (it took twelve days to corner and kill Booth), Stanton and Mrs. Lincoln entered the little bedroom where Lincoln lay on a cornhusk mattress. Outside, a throng of weeping people, mainly...