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Did John Wilkes Booth ever perform in Detroit?
08-30-2012, 02:37 PM (This post was last modified: 08-30-2012 02:39 PM by LincolnMan.)
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RE: Did John Wilkes Booth ever perform in Detroit?
Okay, this stuff gets weird at times, doesn't it? According to the book Nineteenth-Century American Woman Theater Managers by Jane Kathleen Curry- Mrs. H.A. Perry of the Metropolitan Theater in Detroit married Junius Brutus Booth Jr.(in 1867). Prior to that, in 1865, she made her Broadway debut in Our American Cousin playing Florence Trenchard. So besides hosting John Wilkes Booth in her theater in Detroit in 1861- and marrying his brother in 1867-she took on a role as an actress so very associated with Booth and Lincoln. She was known as "Agnes Booth."

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RE: Did John Wilkes Booth ever perform in Detroit? - LincolnMan - 08-30-2012 02:37 PM

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