Booth in Boston April 1865

[Susan Higginbotham]

(02-16-2017 11:29 PM)SSlater Wrote:  Some random thoughts.
I guess I will have to be the one who sticks the pin in the balloon and starts the thinking that maybe Lucy Hale was not the beauty that we have been to believe.
First off - the pictures of Lucy that are available, Two different pictures are a fine view of her ears. Is there anyone present that has cut these pictures out and put them in his wallet? Or on the mirror in the bathroom? (Not in this neighborhood.) In my estimation she looks rather chunky and needs a diet.
I think that the story of Lucy Hale spending a night in the Hotel with the popular - handsome - stage actor - in Newport, was actually written and published by John P. Hale, in order to drum up some interest in his daughter.
She was "so Beautiful" that while she was overseas, she had to fight-off "Titled- Million-airs". Royal Princes, and other such desirable suitors. (_... ...)
She didn't find anyone to marry her until she was in her thirties. Even then it was more years before she managed an off-spring.
This is why we have no evidence that Lucy was a real "Doll" (or was with Booth in Newport.) When it came for a denial from Booth, he was dangling, and couldn't defend his good name.
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Did you know that Senator John P. Hale was recalled from Spain for conducting illegal activities ? He was importing goods and selling them without paying import taxes. Lucy is OK she married another Senator.

Is there a contemporary account of Lucy's being the lady at Newport? As far as I know, the assertion doesn't appear into well into the 20th century. And respectable suitors of the type Senator Hale wanted for his daughter would not be attracted by a story that Lucy had checked into a hotel with an actor who was also a presidential assassin.