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Edwin Booth - L Verge - 10-15-2015 09:26 AM
Dr. Dan J. Watermeier, a theatrical director and professor, has spent decades researching his biography of Edwin Booth, and it has finally been published by the University of Missouri Press. Entitled American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth, it focuses principally on Booth's stage career, but is balanced with details about his personal life.
RE: Edwin Booth - Gene C - 10-15-2015 10:36 AM
Here is the Amazon web site.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826220487?keywords=edwin%20booth&qid=1444922662&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
I wonder how it compares to Arthur Bloom's book?
Anyone read Prince of Players by Eleanor Ruggles?
RE: Edwin Booth - L Verge - 10-15-2015 10:55 AM
Read Prince...many long years ago, and it will always be a classic to me. I have not read Mr. Bloom's book, but we had him as a speaker at the Surratt conference several years ago, and he was very good. Terry Alford has been keeping me up to date on Dr. Watermeier's project, and it seems that this one could be the winner.
RE: Edwin Booth - Sally - 10-15-2015 07:57 PM
I just brought home a copy of Dr. Watermeier's book this evening and will start reading it tomorrow. Can't wait!
RE: Edwin Booth - Sally - 10-16-2015 07:37 PM
FYI, Dr. Watermeier cites Dave Taylor's Boothie Blog as a reference in the first paragraph of the first page of "American Tragedian". Way to go, Scholar Dave!
RE: Edwin Booth - LincolnMan - 10-16-2015 08:20 PM
Wow what an honor!
RE: Edwin Booth - maharba - 12-31-2015 08:50 AM
All these Booth lines are now supposed to be extinct. But I constantly come across new and old listings of folks claiming they are a cousin of Booth. But when you look at their genealogy, they almost never pan out. Many more want to be related to John Wilkes Booth, than to Lincoln. While in the case of Lincoln, many more folks claimed to be close friends and neighbors of Abraham Lincoln, than to the Booths.
RE: Edwin Booth - JMadonna - 02-02-2017 09:58 PM
Ran across this tidbit that you might find interesting.
In one of history’s eeriest coincidences, just as Edwin’s funeral service began, three floors of Ford’s Theatre collapsed into the basement killing twenty-two people.
Could this have been Edwin's ghost trying to avenge what his brother did to the family name?
RE: Edwin Booth - RJNorton - 02-03-2017 04:59 AM
It is indeed eerie, Jerry.
Dave Taylor wrote a detailed account of this tragedy here.
RE: Edwin Booth - BettyO - 02-03-2017 07:29 AM
I have read that as Edwin lay dying, a severe thunderstorm blew up and the gas lighting flicked as if going to go off. Edwina cried "Please don't let father die in the dark!" The lights came back on - eerie indeed....
RE: Edwin Booth - L Verge - 02-03-2017 10:11 AM
(02-03-2017 07:29 AM)BettyO Wrote: I have read that as Edwin lay dying, a severe thunderstorm blew up and the gas lighting flicked as if going to go off. Edwina cried "Please don't let father die in the dark!" The lights came back on - eerie indeed....
I read that same account, Betty, and it sent a bit of a shiver down my back.