THE BOOTH VARIATIONS From: The Village Voice | Date: August 18, 2004| Author: Soloski, Alexis | Copyright Village Voice Aug 18-Aug 24, 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Booths once knocked 'em dead. Not anymore, though

THE BOOTH VARIATIONS

By Todd Cerveris, Nick Philippou, and Caridad Svich

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One spring night in 1871, six years after John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Lincoln, John's actor brother Edwin descended to the furnace room of his New York theater. There he unparceled every one of John Wilkes's costumes-including, presumably, the toga worn in his...

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