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Formed nearly two weeks ago when it was first learned that Feild had not been given a permanent appointment, the sponsoring group is composed of Lloyd Booth, Jr., '39, William M. Fetcher '40, Renee Guthman, Radcliffe '40, William B. Miller '39, Ruth Talbot, Radcliffe '39, and Howard R. Turner...
Those signing the statement were Lloyd Booth, Jr. '39; William M. Fetcher '40; Renee Guthman, Radcliffe '40; William B. Miller '39; Ruth Talbot, Radcliffe '39; and Howard R. Turner...
...years the great Edwin Booth was fired with the idea of establishing a club primarily but not entirely for actors. In the summer of 1887, with fellow-members of a yachting party, he got down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16 Gramercy Park, engaged Stanford White to remodel it, collected 46 charter members, and on the last night of the year, as first president of The Players, handed over the deed of No. 16 to Augustin Daly, the first vice-president. Next day Booth moved in, and for the five remaining years...
...powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John Philip Sousa, Richard Mansfield, and the club's three Presidents who followed Booth-Joseph Jefferson, John Drew and Walter Hampden...
...years, faces have come and gone, but the club itself has remained much the same: its air of worn brown leather, almost unused elevator, ancient chandeliers, cluttered rooms, classic busts and beery mugs, walls crowded with faded photographs and playbills-an "old uncle of a house," as Booth Tarkington described it. Still kept just as he left it- except that the bedsheets are said to be changed occasionally-is the room where Booth lived & died. In tall wall-safes lie carefully preserved costumes and relics of Booth and other actors...