Show EFFECT OF jj L MURDER ON EDWIN BOOTH Ji I Booth snIt said the tho actress Sura the other throughout his hili t Brawn HI on In III New which Will begun lute In at Burtons Metropolitan Theater metamorphosed by IJ Ulon Into the Winter Gal en Booth was al comparatively a II young man nt lit that time and of or course courle unaffected by the great areal grief which so IJO utterly him not Itol long litter after If It oer I mat an actor lIllor who deserved the too often orton applied term of or genius ho was tho actor He HI was rather a close stu student student dent oven even then Ihen but prone to t those care cal which mark tho man of at true instinct In It 11 has hns been said that Booth not 1101 In his hili direction und I know this to have been tho Suit yourself was his answer to n young fellow who wanted to know after n certain speech 11 ech ho should walk nl to the tho or tho left lett Ill Til find you 01 wherever you a Frequently too Booth would Inter Interrupt rupt himself In the scenes to tn make facetious remarks He H held It to bo ue a n fallacy that a n good odor must Icee Ieee himself In his part I use ulle the word fallacy never neer was WIS there more mort absurd Ignorance on the part parl of the public nor moro pretense on thc part of ot the players than li la demon demonstrated demonstrated m in the assertion that any an Im Impersonator forgets himself In his lin Jerome K t humorous comment on this In III InOn On the tha Stage and Off arc should be lie read by h persons who Incline to faith In the But to the thc point I I wan WAil playing Cordelia to Booths Lear one at tile the Metropolitan when n AA tha king soliloquized over oel his hili dead deRd daugh daughter tel ter William Winter stopped out of or the Iho shadow of or a 11 box Into the light and be pun wilting on the back of or nn envelope Mi 1 h Booth whispered to me For I or tho love lor of or heaven dont breath or move Theres a II us IS notes C n another occasion by hy the way 1 who was absentminded walked about behind the scenes lIeneR ciders for tor tho unmindful that hi Ill me 1111 at lit the tha theother other und Ind of or the rope with which I wn n supposed to have hanged Someone asked Mrs Stevens about the Ihl relationship between el n Booth and Bar rett relt When I with Booth she replied Lawrence Hat roll who made madl his hll debut the year 1 I did had not yet et won am with the thc great actor I 1 know l no that thc thu admiration of ot Barrett for COI Booth was Willi of Ir the warmest sl order At Atthe the Metropolitan I played tn to the of Barrett In A Winters Tale Tho star was as much pleased with my lilY performance and took oc or occasion casion to Inquire about me I told him what little there was to toll tIll of or my I had appeared first in lit and three days 1111 later Inter hud had been beon engaged by William 15 I Burton to support Booth To 10 support he hI repented Ah no wonder ou are a n nold good old actress Great develop lop mans ability to appreciate friends as nR they develop Ills his other abilities Clara no count of or tho manner In which loaned on Barrett on their thel last Insl tour I t believe to be perfectly accurate Booth never was practical never could attend to details lie Hc was a pool und a I or el and after the nation of o Lincoln needed the support of or a n stronger nature No Nn account i or orthe f the thc effect 1 I that tilt the participation of ot Booths brother In the tho murder hall had on himself has been exaggerated On his sensitive and Impressionable mind always with n 0 trend to melancholy the affair made a II mark that was ns carried to the grave lIve That he had nothing to 10 do with Ith tho crime and could not have hn beep blamed for It by hy the most unreasonable did not niter Booths feeling It 11 clouded his life I Ins ns In London with Ith my lilY husband John Heenan when hen Lincoln was shot and did not return until ome HOlM months later When I did come back Booth lu III luthe the midst of the tho famous hundred nights run of or I saw him on 01 way 0 ono one day dA when hell the rain was ns tailing falling In torrents He wan holding his um umbrella brella br before him and did not recognize me until we came abreast of other Then his hl face Cace lit up UI and ho greeted me cordially Why Wh Mrs Stev Stevens OilS ens ho wild Is It really you Un held my hand an Oil instant and then thon an 1111 expression of o the thc sorrow HorroW Into Inlo his eyes h he sighed how many thousands of ot years YI rs have hn ve passed since last wo e met I knew what made the time long Ion to him himI and was 11 so 80 affected that I could not I answer I merely squeezed his hand and went enl on my III way WI |