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Did John Wilkes Booth ever perform in Detroit?
08-31-2014, 07:19 PM
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RE: Did John Wilkes Booth ever perform in Detroit?
Very much indebted to Art Loux for the following inclusion in his book John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day for the following about JWB in Detroit:

"Booth next appeared in Detroit, Michigan, at the 1,200- seat Metropolitan Theater, where he reunited with his friend John Albaugh, then a member of the theater's stock company. Agnes Perry, wife of Harry A. Perry, manager of the theater, later became the third wife of Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. The terms of Booth's engagement gave him fifty percent of each night's proceeds after the first $60. Booth earned $116.92 for his seven performances, or $16.70 a performance. Maggie Mitchell, a more prominent star than Booth, had earned $22.67 a night at the same theater two weeks earlier." (p. 80).
Great stuff! Thank you Mr. Loux.

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