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Bioff: "I told Miller the exhibitors . . . would have to have two operators in each booth. Miller said, 'My God! That will close up all my shows...
Bioff: "I said: 'If that will kill grandma -then grandma must die.' . . . Miller said that two men in each booth would cost about $500,000 a year. So I said well, why don't you make a deal? And we finally agreed...
...lives alone in a four-room apartment on Q Street, just off Connecticut Avenue, to which he invites friends to taste his own expertly prepared chili. When not dining at home, he usually goes to Martin's, an unobtrusive restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue, where he invariably occupies the booth next the kitchen door...
...Booth in Blackface. From 1850 to 1880 minstrelsy was the biggest thing in the U.S. theatre. Famed players like Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, William Macready and Edwin Booth were hard put for audiences in any town where "cullud opera" was playing. In 1850 the great Booth himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father...
Married. Louise Booth Morley, 23, daughter of Author Christopher Morley, London OW Idea girl; and Captain James A. Cochrane, 24, bemedaled (D.S.O., M.C.) Queens Own Cameron Highlander; in London...