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Show END OF AN O'JETTHEATER. A. Stago on Which tho Booths Acted to Elalio Way For a Furniture Store. The Richmond theater, the oldest playhouso in this city and one of the oldest in the country, will very probably in a few days be converted Into a furniture furni-ture store. Somo of tho greatest aotors this country coun-try ever produced began their careej upon the stagoof the Richmond theater, ind it was at one time the home of the best stock company in tho United Slates of which John Wilkes Booth was b member. The lato Edwin Booth and William Florence both began thoir ca reers on this stage, and Crestou Clarke, a nephew of Booth, maflo his first appearance ap-pearance at this theater. Before the war it was known as tha Marshall theater. In J 863 it was destroyed destroy-ed by Are and" was rebuilt, tho materials being hmqgfc through tho blockade The scenory (for tho new building was brought from England. Tho building ia 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. |