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Actual voice records of Edwin F. Booth, the foremost American actor of the last century and said to be the greatest Hamlet of all time, have been salvaged for posterity largely through the work of Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
Through this organization Mr. Packard was able to contact Edwin Booth Grossman, grandson of the actor. Mr. Grossman had two wax cylinder records, one of Othello's speech to the Venetian senators concerning the wooing of Desdemona, and the other of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be." Both records take exactly four and a half minutes to play. They were, however, very faint and obscured by much extra noise to such an extent that Mr. Grossman, despaired of ever having them transferred to modern phonograph discs...
...records was the finding of a cigar among the pile of papers. Close by was a note bearing the inscription, "This was the last cigar which Edwin Booth ever held in his mouth." The teeth marks were still apparent, for, though forbidden by his doctors to smoke, the dying actor was not to be denied the pleasure of keeping the cigar in his mouth...
Carbed in a black witch's hat and an ebony gown, Laid McK. Ogle '37, a member of the French Club and an actor in the French Play, has been haunting Cambridge, Harvard, and Radcliffe during the past two weeks...
...Leginska worked like a fury at rehearsals, got telling results from orchestramen. It was not her fault that the performance began a half hour late, that Morwenna, supposedly a middle-aged character, was mistaken for the youthful heroine or that Baritone John Charles Thomas (Gale) will never be an actor...