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Walter Hampden, only prominent actor-manager in the U. S. theatre,* was last week elected president of The Players. He succeeds the late John Drew and, according to the tradition of the club, will hold the post until death. Other presidents have been Edwin Booth, the founder; Joseph Jefferson...
...Year's Eve, 1887, a group of friends gathered at Edwin Booth's home (remodeled by Stanford White) in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Shortly before midnight he disclosed to them a plan dear to his heart. He would found an actor's club, to which would be admitted men in the varied arts, and in which the best of the writing, painting and music world might come to learn that the actor, too, is a gentleman. Mr. Booth was distressed at the slight repute in which his profession was held before the world. He would give his home...
...posts. Telephone clerks removed the receivers of their instruments from the hooks. Telegraph operators stopped their ticking. All looked up at the rostrum. On the little balcony appeared the cold, scholarly figure of Stock Exchange President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons. Amid a hush he announced that Member Herman W. Booth was expelled from the roster of the Exchange for "conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." It was the first expulsion since July, 1925.š Charges. Herman W. Booth was not in Manhattan on the day of his expulsion. He hardly ever appeared on the trading floor...
This will hardly happen to Herman W. Booth, for apparently he had no customers...
...keeping his seat for 13 years and doing little or nothing with it, Mr. Booth profited by at least...