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Show FAMOUS ACTOR TO BE HONORED Mary Anderson to Attend When Booth Picture Is Presented NEW YORK. Sept 27 On the stage of the Shakespeare theatre in Strat-ford-on-Avon next Friday Mary Anderson, Ander-son, for years one of America's foremost fore-most tragediennes will make what Is probably her farewell appearance, if. was announced here. The ,( . aston in the. addition of a picture of Edwin Booth to the gallery' Of Immortals In the famous Shakespearean shrine The picture is the gift of E. F. Albee to the Kotarv club of America. Mary Anderson, who Is now Mrs. de Navarre, is to appear at her own request, re-quest, and her Interest In Edwin Booth day at Strntford-on-Avon. is both as an actress and as a personal friend of Edwin Booth. The presentation of the picture to Mayor Archibald Flower of Stratford-on-Avon, head of the Shakespeare Shake-speare committee, will be mad.- by Orch C Klumph of Cleveland, past president of tho American Kotarlans Hundreds of devotees of Shakespeare are gathering already In the little English Eng-lish town for tho ceremonies, many of them from London and others from every corner of tho world. In a letter to Mr Albee, Mary Anderson An-derson says: "It Is splended of you J giving this picture; there is no counterfeit coun-terfeit presentment' of him here and I you yourself will greatly enrich tho collection and do honor to our greatest actor." nr |