Show 1 1 I 1 AND BOOTHS I 1 old time that show people reidie the lie daa V I 1 p of I 1 9 I 1 1 I hlll OUT BRITIS BRUTUS SOME DAT DIT 1 L felix A vincent and lvin IV in V broer A A chat on the be dai lehto hta they were lonn vona r 1 I 1 there was a pleasant reunion oi 01 1 theatrical people in una this city yesterday the group of people ilij did not amount to a great deal in point oi of numbers but in in tile if he a n matter latter of of 0 the tile events eventa 0 the ds of yore the conversation conver alion tation aas a rich arx li and nil full of facts the company comprised mr and mrs vincent and mr bernard playing ilag at t the union opera this week air mr and mrs breyer of the breyer dramatic co go and a lady and a STANDARD STAND IKU reporter who did more listening than talking mr vincent and mr breyer are b old time friende friends who call earh cai h other felix and billy with that familiarity suggesting a ion acquaintance trey tf ey recalled the old days oi of the and the booths onil only forror four or five of the old original people are alive today to day eaid said mr vincent recalling the hat list lour four t tl bat at I 1 know of and one that I 1 am not sure of 11 well I 1 am glad that iou are still numbered among the living flix remarked mr breer breyer and it if you live as many weeks as you have bave gr gray a y haire hairs in your head you on will be on earth another forty years I 1 forty years repeated mr vincent shaking his bead head slow eflowly ay it is a n nearly ea r ly forty j retire ears billy since I 1 was I 1 0 one be of the original 11 alls ek coin company pany let roe file fee yes it was as in 1832 t that flat Wal lacks lyceum was established in bew ew york fk city the ile theatrical beatr ca people deop a t it was too far up town but ut we caught the fa fashionable hiona ia people eople and made the tile success of t the a day then then mr vincent ir recalled eballe the following I 1 names of the original company compary I 1 who opened in in september 1852 in ilir the way 1 ay to cef P seguin W it blake J IV lefter lester chas hale It reynolds eynolds lyster C bernard baker hunt and thorn art E B bothern john brougham 0 K alwon A baker F A vincent I 1 11 II B phillips kea itea F chippendale jr I 1 trevor geo F brown burke I 1 durant james kate horn mrs airs buckland mrs IV it blake mrs john broughan julia gould mrs stephens fanny I 1 anny camer mrs mcgill leborne Oe 03 borne deane mrs charles hale mrs F hea miss cramer Crar nef bl alvina mrs IV J florence ell mies hughes barton and scott P 1 there are still alive of that list lisi the tile first baker 11 II B phillips mrs 11 florence orence and I 1 do not know whether kate horn IB is nine alive or not 0 baker is is in tue the adjutant goner generals Is office in chicago lie ile has was on G general ene r I 1 Sheri sheridane dans staff in tho tile late war mrs 11 ra I 1 I 1 lorence florence is detill on the stage as you I 1 know 11 yes Ys and keeping along wilh ith tile re st of us in in bears ears added mr breyer r then hie the conversation turned to elder L booth and the other booths and other stage people shohe names are 0 eo well ell known all over the english speaking eje aking world in 1862 in january said sold mr V vincent incent 1 I was at the rational national theatre and placed d with margeret jane devenport davenport who is is jane lauder now DOW blie was as the oung young girl whom charles dickens immortalized as tle the infant phenomenon of nicholas Nichola 8 0 Nuiell ii and her father was made into the old Crit of the same story at that time the elder booth and george F brown had a theatre on pennsylvania avenue in the came city bir sir william don an impecunious english baron was war their star 1 1 I was leading in in 1 liegh ough diamond at the national and ho he was doing if the io same at booths theatre Ilee he bent enthis his I 1 hate late and wigs over to tolue we every night there it was that edwin booth did his flint first important work he lie played hermea Hev mea in 7 apostate and bi q fath father er played Te pescara scara 11 edwin an and d I 1 f w erd ere youngsters young etere to toge gethel in 1801 1861 ca and 63 1 I was as running 1 a theatre in indianapolis iH indiana and john wilkes booth played several engagements with me we used to spend our leisure at dom dominges domio inoes oes and anti lie used lo 10 make some eccentric remarks one of which was so forcibly bly brought to mind upon receiving the tile news of the assassination of lincoln it was during one of these games of dom inoes he said 1 I will out brutus brutus one of these days I 1 paid no attention to the remark that was about two years before the assassination ado you remember blanche de do bar iou ad breyer Qui quite tewell well bhe she is the daughter of junius brutus booth jr and a bister of old ben lien do bar the last time I 1 saw lier ber was 1 in n 0 oh 11 those are old old d days a y billy and I 1 doubt if voi and n d I 1 1 will I 1 be of the hand bandril of old T t timers for many years 4 but we a will give old man time a but pretty lively chase chaze wont I 1 we that cewill we will felix and the tile two I 1 I 1 old IV veterans e cerans chook hands coding ending a del delightful ig h ful afternoons afternoon la chat |