When most Americans think of the name “Booth” they think of John Wilkes, the infamous assassin who fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. But for much of the 19th century it was ...

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PRINCE OF PLAYERS: EDWIN BOOTH (401 pp.)—Eleanor Ruggles—Norton ($4.50). Everyone agreed that the Booths were eccentric—sometimes majestically. Take old Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852), first of his ...

"250 copies of this edition were printed on handmade paper, with the illustrations on plate paper." The life of Edwin Booth -- The art of Edwin Booth : Hamlet ; King Lear ; Macbeth ; Othello and Iago ...

Nobody is taking a shot at this party. Members of The Players, a storied Gramercy Park social club catering to members of the arts, gathered Saturday in the park to celebrate the 190th birthday of ...

Edwina Booth who thrilled cinemaddicts of 1931 as the blonde goddess of Trader Horn reemerged in last week’s news in strange contrast to the vigorous, vibrant creature the public remembered on the ...

THE keen sense of loss which has come to the American people because of the death of Edwin Booth may well be shared by all the English-speaking communities of the world. If Mr. Irving be left out of ...

The living room: The restored windows now include UV protection. The poetry book on the table is open to the page that Booth was reading when he had the first of the two strokes that killed him. Photo ...