Show SATIRICAL STRAIN OF HUMOR william winter wrote of edwin boothe booth peculiarities as a he had observed them at times booths humor wag its satirical when leaving a church in doston boston after the funeral of the eminent essayist an and d critic edwin percy whipple obsequies which he had attended in company with lawrence barrett Harrt tt and at that friends suggestion and during which he hall had been annoyed as well as amused by the convulsive facial contortions of the officiating clergyman ho he remarked remark wl to barrett 1 I know knew mr whipple lc but I 1 never expected I 1 should be so sorry to attend it his Is funeral when a stage struck lunatic named mark gray attempted to murder asci 1 I in chicago at it a performance of king richard II if april 2 1879 at theater firing at him twice with a pistol front from a place in the second balcony booth calmly advanced to the front of the stage and pointing at the madman directed that lie he be seized and then after a brief absence from the scene to reassure ills his wife composedly finished his performance later lie he caused one of 0 the bullets to be extracted from it a piece of scenery where here it had lodged and had it mounted as a charm for his watch chain inscribed bed to edwin booth from ml mark ark gray that sinister r relic elle h he e cagto 0 lacu marily wore william W winter te r in coli 0 b iler llera s weekly |