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Show END OF AN OLD THEATER. K Stago on WJiIcli the Booths Acted tc Slake Way For a Fnruitnre Store. The Richmond theater, the oldesi playhouso in this city and one of the oldest intho country, will very probably in a few days be converted Into a furniture furni-ture store. Some of the greatest aotors this country coun-try ever produced began their careej upon the stage of the Richmond theater, ind it was at one time the home of the best stock company in the United Statea of which John Wilkes Booth was & member. The late Edwin Booth and William Florence both began their careers ca-reers on this stage, and Creston Clarke, a nephew of Booth, mado his first appearance ap-pearance at this theater. Before the war it was known as the Marshall theater. In 1 862 it was destroyed destroy-ed by firo and was rebuilt, the materials being brought through the blockade. The scenery for the now building was brought from England. The building is now out of repair and unfit for a place of amusement, though it has been conducted con-ducted as such up to the present time Richmond Dispatch. |