Prince of Players: Edwin Booth
by Ruggles, Eleanor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: W.W.Norton, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. "The ever-fascinating Booth family offers a wonderful opportunity for theatrical biography and this portrait of Edwin handles its controversial material with conviction and the man himself with love. Here is Junius for whom England and a wife and son held no interest and to whom America, a mistress, Mary Annand, a brood of illegitimate children gave happiness and love. Drink, however, and bouts of madness (""Father's calamity"") developed into dreadful threats and it was Edwin who became responsible for his father's scheduled appearances and who was eventually forced to substitute for him when Junius was incapable of performing. And theater became his career, with the old saying ""star or starve"" a driving force. He sowed wild oats in California and Australia, he had competition from his brothers Junius and John, drink and women threatened his early professional years. His first wife gave him his daughter, Edwina, who was the cause of his second wife's mental unbalance, and he had the terrible notoriety, his brother's assassination of Lincoln brought about, to live through...An evocative re-creation of a bombastic era, a many panelled picture of a family, a warm understanding of the man--this will more than satisfy followers of theatrical biography." 401p..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038509
- Title
- Prince of Players: Edwin Booth
- Author
- Ruggles, Eleanor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- W.W.Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- edwin booth acting biography
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