Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 556
yed little fellow began to long to act too.Were not the people applauding his father? But,with childish assurance, he stoutly declared thathe would be the villain or nobody—no soft,loverish parts for him! Thus, as Mr. WilliamWinter says, The theater was Edwin Boothsschool-room, the greatest living… … EDWIN BOOTH IN 1854. The books were in the boys trunk; but whatfascination had readers or spellers compared withhis fathers play-books ? As Edwin said, behindthe scenes he learned the words of all the partsof every play, and, since Mr. Booth acted chieflyShakspere, the words themselves were well…
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