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PART TWO.
KING DOWN' THE CURTAIN
BOOTH’S PROFESSIONAL LIFE
DRAWING TO A CLOSE.
A Well-earned R ;st in Prospect—An
Ecc-ntric Erotner of tte 1 rasredian
Who Lives at Long Branch—John
Willies Booth as an Actor—Edwin’s
F.rst EngaKeme.it at $6 Per Week—
His Foi.dnses for the Violia and
Banjo—A Memorable Scene in Wh ch
Three Great Tragedians Took Part—
Forrest’s Appt arance-Edwin Booth’s
Action.
{Copyright.)
New York, April 4.—The eminent man,
now the relic of a curious household of
actors is just steeping off the stage for
good and all, as his partner dies. While
Edwin Booth is not the last representative
of a remarkable family he is the only one
of the present day and generation of that
kinship who will be remembered and men
tioned in the years far ahead of us. Joseph
is an elder son of the distinguished trage
dian known as Junius Brutus Booth,
and he lives at Long Branch, where,
among his townsmen, he is rated like
all the rest of his f Iks for his eccentricities.
He never had histrionic aspirations iike some
of his kin, and has lived a settled life, but
full of combat with those about him. It is
a curious fact that only two of all this blood
born ami bred to the theater have achieved
distinction on the stage. Junius Brutu3,
who bore his father’s name, was a better
tavern-keeper than an actor, all hough he
often played, but he liked the occupation
of bonifnee better than work behind
the footlights. He owned a good
hotel at Manchester-by-the-Sea on the
Massachusetts coast, where be died, and his
brilliant widow, who afterward married
John Schoeffel, now does the honors. So
Edwin and Joseph are alone left as relics of
a household that for very many years
played a dominaut part in the drama and
tragedy iff our national life. As Joseph
dees not play, Edwin Is easily the master
and stands out in bold relief ns the first
actor of the day and the central figure of a
wonderful combination that wondered and
acted by turns just as the humor struck
them.
Out of seven children born of Mary Ann
Holmes, the flower girl of the Covent Gar
den theater of 1831, only two have made
their mark on the stage—Edwin and John
Wilkes. None of tue girls have been
actresses, and even Edwin Booth’s daugh
ter has not followed her fathor’s footsteps,
but has married a broker and is sett,led in
New York to a life of ease rather than of
labor on the stage. Other actors have had
the same experience, for none of Mr. Bar
rett's daughters married in the profession,
except the one who wedded Mary Ander
son’s brother Joseph, who is a manager
rather than an actor.
All this leads one to thoughtful conclu
sions and lifts the curtain of life upon im
portant s enes. The retrospect that comes
of a review of Edwin Booth’s career is most
interesting. He was evidently born under
a melancholy star, despite the fact that as
he first opened his eyes the heavens wel
comed him with a meteor. In 1833 these
omens were regarded with suspicion, and
the date was noted with more or less care
by the couutryslde people of Hartford
county, Maryland, about twenty miles
from baltinmre, where this gift was made
to the stage and to mankind. All the boys
were a queer lot—possessing more or less of
their father’s talents as well as his eccen
tricities. Edwin was by no means the
favorite of his great sire. John Wilkes
was always regarded as tho flower of the
flock on the male side, and Mary Asia, who
married John S. Clarke, the comedian,
wrote the history of her father and
brother, and was in power and purpose the
big end of the family so far as the women
were concerned. It is a remarkable fact
that Wilkes Booth ifiade m >re money iu a
single season before and during the wa"
than any actor who has ever lived
in that time. John T. Ford, who
managed him once, told me that his income
was $20,000 a year for less wors than any
mm of his time ever drew. He was a
neroic character and studied effects. He
always made an effort to pleas tis women
by doing dramatic things that ure not al
ways in the play. For instance, in "Richard
> II.,” which was one of his great chareters.
he jumped twenty feet ever the rocks m
s.eai of coming down tho stairs, and the
audience wom wild over the scene as he
made it. As “Raphael,” in the ‘‘Marble
Heart,” he achieved n still greater success,
mid women and men by the hundreds would
wait at the stage door to see him go out,
and would beg for a chance to touch the
hem of his cloaic,
1j uitke Edwin he always studied the dra
matic. He dressed himself faultlessly. As
a rule he wore kid gloves,and when bisover
coat was not on, it laid over his arm, and
bis whole pose along the street was as if
sitting for a picture. The day of the night
he assassinated the President I met him
wal.ing down the street toward Ford’s
opera house, where he cot his mail. Harry
1' ord, still living in Baltimore, was in the
box office, and handed out the messages.
Many of them were of love, for he was a
great favorite with the fair sex, and at the
m ment when he assassinated Mr. Lincoln
lie was the affianced husband of the daugh
ter of one of tho most distinguished United
rotates senators then serving in congress.
Even after the crime her loyalty was so
great thfct she swore she would marry him
i.t t ie foot of the scaffold if necessary.
It is, perhaps, a serious view of life to in
trude this story of a great crime; but it
‘.comes a part of the adventure of history
that this younger of two sons of a wonder
, sire should have put a mark on his
nr ether’s career that from that day to this
has kept him from even going to the
na ionnl capital. It is said that when John
tv ukos killed the President, Edwin made
the solemn declaration that he would never
enter the national capital as an actor,
if this be true he his kept nis w ord not
withstanding a th usand tempting offers
have been made to him to do so. Even the
urea st men of the United States have
asked him to come and act at the capital of
the nation. I remember once that Capt. W.
M. Connor, who managed John McCullough
in the heyday of his prosperity, once said to
me:
“Edwin Booth will never again be seen in
the capital of the country. He is too sen
sitive to ever put himself in the wrong
place. 1 think it Is captious; but neverthe
less all people should respect his sentiment
v ithouc question.”
A quiet talk with Capt. Cos: nor recalls
• r > ue remarkable traditions of the stage so
far as TV ashiugton is concerned.
It is so many years ago that I am almost
lost i' the midst of forgetfulness since Ed
win Forrest played his last character on the
eia. He was invited by the President of
tiio United States and all tho assembled
t* and ni of the country to come to the capi
tal of the nation and play. He accepted tne
invitation and selected "Hamlet.” His ]
physical infirmities were so marked that \
some man with more vice than wisdom j
hissed the great tragedian. It broke the
old man’s heart and he never appeared in
public again. Col. John W. Forney was
one of the chief features of this last act of a
great man, and never forgave hims-Tf for
inducing Mr. Forrest to return to the boards
JUofttittfl ffctoS.
after his game was played. Yet the temp
tation was great and the incident of a hiss
from some ordinary citizeu in one of the
greatest audiences ever assembled to see an
actor broke Mr. Forrest’s heart.
John T. Ford managed the theater then a
few squares below his old playhouse, where
the youngest of the Booths assassinated the
President of the United States.
Edwin Booth was not much of a fav r.fce
with his distinguished falher. John Wakes,
dashing, brilliant and drama’.ic, hogged the
family creed, to use a theatr.cal parlance.
Edwin was always too melancholy and re
served to please the old tragedian, and tie
was serious, if not severe with him. While
Edwin was proud of, yet he was timid of,
his father, whose caprices of mind made
him uggrossive, and rarely over tender.
Consequently he was not always pleasant
to the thoughtful boy who dressed him in
his different characters and pandered to his
penchants as only a dutiful soil would.
Edwin Booth was well educated. Private
tutors taught him the theoretical, as well
as the thoughtful lessons of effort. He in
herited the Booth talent for languages and
played the fiddle and tho banjo well. Many
a good story is now told of the whims of
his father for the musical tale its of his son,
He loved to hear Edwin play the violin; but
the banjo was his favorite. In tne dress
ing room at the theater, or in his bed
chamber at his hotel, he was always de
lighted to hear his soil play a negro jig,
“Old Zip Coon,” or other old negro melo
dies. If there were no broader impulses
involved than the affection which caj rices
called out, it was enough to show that the
son was bred of a great sire, and that is
enough for any man, no matter how great
one may grow in his maturer years.
My store of reminiscences is filled with
tales of the elder Booth and bis boy, who is
just now filling the public eye and yet pass
ing off the stage of action. Junius Brutus
Booth was timid of Forrest, and the older
Charlie Thorne told me a story recently
which Stuart Robson, who played in the
cast at the time elaborated afterward.
Here it is:
Thorne was managing the Chatham street
theater at that time, the chief play house of
the metropolis. He bad engaged Edwin
Forrest, after whom the present Booth is
named, to play three weeks for him. For
rest thought the time too long, but Thorne
did not. Tho first week’s business was
good. Nine hundred and fifty dollars was
taken at the box office. The second week
fell off and I home thought he was going to
get into trouble and told Forrest he feared
that he could not run the three weeks out.
The great tragedian was a harsh man, and
every night after the performance went to
the box office and insisied on having bis
per diem. Twice, if not moie, he bad a
quarrel with Tnorce about the percentage,
and Thorne never for.avo him. Ha had
the same difficulty with Joe Jefferson, who
played with him, and Stuart Robson once
told me that he was the harshest man whom
he had ever met, although he regarded him
as the greatest actor of the world.
Aow tilings have changed since then.
Think of Kdwi’n Booth, Forrest and the
great Booth playing for $125 a night and
SI,OOO a week—a good revenue. There is a
curious story how it came about. Thorne
thought he was in trouble, and while walk
ing up the street dreary and despondent
met Mr. Booth. As he saw him coming he
said to himself:
•‘lf I could get Booth to play with Forrest
I can fill out these three weeks to playing
business.” Booth apprached and he asked
bnn if he would help him out.
“Certainly,” said the great tragedian, ‘‘if
Forrest will play with me.”
“How much do you want a night?” said
Thorne.
“Fifty dollars,” said Booth.
The terms were accepted. Forrest was
consulted. He gave Booth the choice of
characters, and the balance of the engage
ment was played between these two great
men and Mr. Thorne made four hundred
dollars on the venture.
At this time Ed vin Booth was traveling
with his father. Hispenci ant for the banjo
broke out at all time-, and one day Bes in
was playing a way at a great rate for the
edification of his parent. A knock came at
the door. “Come in.” said Booth, and in
6 rodo M \ Forrest. Booth, half disconcerted,
motioned Edwin to put the banjo away.
But Forrest objected and said in a thun
der "stone:
|| ‘E in 11, do you play ‘Nellie Bly?”’
•' it!S, sir,’’ was the respouse.
“ Flay ‘Nellie Bly’ then.”
The dignified tragedian of to-day thrum
med ‘‘Nellie Bly.” Then Mr. Forest asked
h in to play halfjadozen familiar melodies,
which Mr. Booth did with great gusto.
"L)o you play a negro jig?” said Mr.
Forest
“Yes, sir,” said the younger Booth.
“Flay a negro jig then, Edwin.”
All this time the elder Booth had been
standing, half dazed, wondering that Mr.
Forrest would thus let down on his dignity,
lu a moment Edwin began to play the i.egro
jig requested. Forrest stood it for awhile,
and then began to shake one foot and the
other. The elder Booth followed suit, and
before he had finished his melody both these
great tragedians wero dancing a break
down in true Virginia style. Many such
incidents might he piled up to illustrate the
fact that the lives of the great actors of old
were not always tragic, but frequently friv
olous.
Edwin Booth developed rapldiy in his
artistic career. It would have been remark
able had he not risen. He began life with
bis father, and while yet a boy watched and
wsfited and studied bis magnificent repre
sentations from behind the footlights aud
in a practical way. Had he not imbibed
much of his father’s spirit he would have
been a dull lad indeed. While John Wilkes
was regarded the flower of the fleck, be
tween Edwin and his father there was a
bond of sympathy 6uch ns never existed be
tween the younger genius of the family and
his parent. John YV ilkes developed to early
and was too restless and emphatic to suit
the grand old man from whose loins he
sprang, and who caught more satisfaction
from an association with the thoughtful Ed
win than with the son who was handsome,
talented and capricious. It was quite nat
ural then that the last of the Booths as
actors began his career early. In 1849,
when he was 16 years of age, ho appeared
as “Tressel” in “Hichard III.” at the Boston
Museum, his first real work on the stage.
His fat h’r thought he had done very well,
but was by no means inclined to give the
young actor much encouragement.
In 1851 Mr. Booth made his first appear
ance on the stage. His father was an
nounced to ap' ear at the old Nation il
theater in New York in “Richard III.” At
the last moment he took a caprice thet he
would not play, and ordered Edwin to go
to the theater and act tne part. Wuile he
had seen it played many times, the propo
sition startled him; but there was no other
alternative, as the father would not ap
pear. Edwin Booth acted the part to the
satisfaction of all concerned, and it is a
generally accepted fact that the elder 800 h
sat in the audience aud witnessed the per
formance, but did not let bis son know that
he bad seen his first attempt upon the
threshold of a romantic and dramatic
career.
It is now forty years since Edwin Booth
entered into a contract with a manager in
Baltimore to play for *6 awe k. His suc
cess was not very marked, and he soon after
went with his father to California. The
struggles at that time with both father and
sons was very exciting. Junius Brutus,
named after the father, was ia t,.e casts in
those days, and the two sons and be made
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1891.
up a good part of the company. Life 1
then a gamble with them all, avd Edwin :
on account of his retiring manners, fared
worse than all. He drifted off to Australia
and Honolulu, gathering much experience
but little money. He filially returned to
California with Laura Keene his support.
He did very well in a round of characters in
Ban Francisco, but finally drifted off with a
company to the mining towns. The venture
was not very successful, and there was more
or less of a battle from the beginning to the
end of the tour; but before it bad ended
Booth was established along the Golden
Gate, and his departure for home
was made au ovation. He reached his
father's house in Harffordfcounty, to open
soon afterward at the Front Street Theater
in Baltimore, the play being “Richard III.”
An engagement in New York followed and
a trip to B ton established his reputation
ns the coming tragedian of his time. Iu 1857
he played his first important engagement iu
New York, made a hit and thenceforth his
career was onward and upward. He trav
eled front one end of the country to the
other, acting all the leading Shakeiperian
roles and filling to the full cue mantle which
his father’s death had thrown upon his
shoulders. John Wilkes was at that time
too young to be a competitor. Edwin
Booth played with John McCullough, E. L.
Davenport and Lawrence Barrett before
the war; but after the clash of swords ho
went by himself, until recently, when ho
joined fortunes with the actor who has juct
died. He had little in common w ith any of
the men who stood compatriot with him in
tne artistic field, because of his retiring
habitx
i’erhaps there is no more interesting
phase of his life than his appearance in
New York for 100 nights in the character
of “Hamlet.” That was nearly tweuty-five
years ago. Then a run of a hundred nights
was something unheard of, and yet be
played tbe melancholy Dane at the very
pinnacle of his power and then went back
to San Francuoa to receive an ovation
after nearly a quarter of a century of ab
sence from tho Pacific coast, where he
practically began bis artist career.
Mr. Booth’s career surmounts that of any
other man now on the stage, excepting
Joseph Jefferson. To him Mr. Booth owes
much. The play of “A Fool’s Revenge”
was sent to “Rip Van Winkle,” but he
could find nothing in the character for a
comedian. He gave it to Mr. Booth, who
at first saw little In it for him, and the char
acter of “Bertruccio” did not strike him
until after be had studied it fora loug time.
Perhaps it was tea years before he really
fou and that in this play he had one of bis.
stronger cards, and then he played it a/
aften as he thought it would win. Strong
as Booth is in "Bertruccio” he plays
“Richelieu” with remarkable power,
“lago” is perhaps his greaiest part. At
least he thi ks s>. The public take much
the same view as does the artist, and Mr.
Booth certainly gives a great impersonation
of the treacherous “lago,” and few men
have ever lived who could play “Othello"
when Edwin Booth acted the wily and lying
“lago.” No man who has ever lived has
given so artistic a finish to this miserable
character as Edwin Booth.
“Hamlet” is, in many respects, Mr.
Booth’s greatest character. When he has
the mind he frequently gives some touches
to the melancholy Dane that no other man
has ever upproaehed, and I have often
thought l bat in the grave digging seen* he
surpassed any man I ever saw.
In estimating the character of Edwin
800 h it is well to take many things into
consideration. He was handicapped from
the start with the genius of a father whose
traditions fill up a great part of the stage
life of this country. Men like Forrest,
Booth and Davenport are not often found
in any profession, and to live and make a
record under the shadow of their influence
is a serious task. We arejap; to make ideal ,
and no matter how well some new aspirau.
may do we are constantly gauging him by
the idol that we have long since set up for
ourselves. Then tho shadow of a great
crime came upon the family name early in
his career and to a greater or less extent
marred the later years of his professional
life. No one ever held him accountable for
it in any way; but the sorrow was as cutting
and tho results as demoralizing as oven his
worst enemy could wish.
One incident will illustrate how far Mr.
Booth was affected by his father's reputa
tion. Ben Deßar, bimslf an old actor of
strong powers, had the theater in St. Louis.
Edwin Booth was to play there. While
Deßar was a liberal man outside of his
theater, bo was stingy in it, and would not
consent to any expenditure on his stage.
Mr. Booth was rehearsing the grave digging
scone and turning to the singe manager said,
“I want a calcium light here.”
“I am sorry, Mr. Booth, but you will bars
to see Mr. Deßar about that, I nave no
authority to incur any expense.” Mr. De-
Bar was sent for and soon appeared.
“Ben, I want a calcium light upon this
scene,” said Booth.
“Edwin,” rejoined Mr. Deßar. "your
father never needed a calcium light when
he played ‘Hamlet.’ ”
Tbis’eaded the argument, Mr. Booth turn
ing away with the rejoinder:
“Never mind the light, Bsn."
It is in melancholy and subtle parts that
Mr. Booth succeeds best, according to my
mind. 1 never regarded him as much of a
lover, for he lacks that sentiment and spirit
that calls out the best emotions of the
heart. About the time of his marriage in
1869 to Mis3 Devlin, he plavod lovers’ parts
with some spirit. But after be failed in
Booth's theater on the corner of Twentv
tbird and Sixth avenue and married, his
second wife. Miss McVicker, whom he mat
as a child when playing his first engagement
in Chicago, he seemed to devote himself
almost entirely to the serious, aud
studied such characters only as would
give him an opportunity for
the solemn and tragic. Edwin Booth is not
always, however, solemn aud tragic as
many peoplo may suppose. Years and the
severe exactions that have been put upon
him have made him shun society more or
less; but I remember one night seeing him
initiated into the famous Clover club of
Philadelphia, and enter into the spirit of
the occasion as completely as any of the
members of the organization. As he took
the baby’s chair and the rattle was placed
around his neck he said, with evident good
humor:
“Gentlemen, this is by no means the first
time that I have played the fool, a :d it is
probably not the last.”
Mr. Booth is just now rounding out his
forty years of experience < f the stage. Ever
since the war ho has filled the public eye
more completely th in any actor who has
trod the boards. He has withstood severe
criticism and yet enjoyed the confidence of
the public. YVhether he will ever act again
or not is a question. But taking it all in all
he has made a remarkable history, and will
go down to future ge orations as one of the
shining lights of the stage. In some respects
the goodly things of earth and air have
shown upon him unfortunately .but as a rule
his work nas been forceful enough to
attract attention to his rendition of many
characters that wilt be remembered long
after he ha' passed away. Asa manager
he was by no meansa success, and the great
playhouse which he built and hoped to leave
as a monument to his profession has been
turned into shops by the avarice of trade
and the Flayers’ Club iu Gramruercy park
bos taken its place as a reminder to tnoee
who are to come after that Edwin Booth
lived an active and useful life that bad net
ted him profit in both money and fame.
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ECKSTEINS
FINEST ASSORTMENT OF
BLACK DRESS LACES!
GREAT BARGAINS IN
RICH SILK GRENADINES!
CLOSING OUT ENTIRE STOCK
CHINA and INDIA SILKS.
PRSCES REDUCED ON ALL
IMPORTED DRESS ROBES.
FINEST STOCK OF
WOOL DRESS MATERIALS
LOWEST PRICES IN SAVANNAH
FINE WHITE GOODS
BEAUTIFUL LINE OF FOREIGN
Ginghams, Batistes, Satines
VERITABLE BARGAINS IN
LACES AND EMBROIDERIES
THE VERY BEST VALUE IM
Ladies' and Misses’ Hose.
ATTRACTIVE PRICES IN
Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
The Best Goods and Lowest Prices at
Gustave Eckstein & Co’s.
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CLOTHING, HATS AND FURNISHINGS
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THE SPRING TRADE.
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STRAW h'ATS! STRAW HATS! STRAW HATSI All the Latest Blocks and Shades in Spring Derbys.
200 Walking Sticks worth 50c. and 75c. going for 25c. Handsomest Line of Silk Uuibrellas in the city.
Our SHOE DEPARTMENT is replete with all the Latest Novelties for Spring Wear. Wear Our $3 00
De Soto Shoe, for Men. We have all the Latest Novelties. Puff Bosom Shirts from $1 to $3. Ail colors.
All the Latest Novelties in Neckwear. Half Hose at $2 75 dozen, worth $3. Big Bargains. All colors.
DBYFIIS BROS,, Congress and Jefferson Sts.
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