Famous actors and their homes . out of the theatrical dis-trict. Its handsome house is in an old-fash-[ 203 ] FAMOUS ACTORS ioned neighborhood (and still an excellentone). No. 16 Gramercy Park. It is a fineNew York mansion done over; the groundsrun back to the next street, as do also thoseof the house adjoining, where Samuel J. Tildenlived, so that there is an outlook on the parkfrom the front and on a broad garden spacefrom the rear, and the house was deliveredto the club altered, decorated, furnished, andfully equipped by its founder, the late EdwinBooth, a much-loved name within its walls.
Famous actors and their homes . out of the theatrical dis-trict. Its handsome house is in an old-fash-[ 203 ] FAMOUS ACTORS ioned neighborhood (and still an excellentone). No. 16 Gramercy Park. It is a fineNew York mansion done over; the groundsrun back to the next street, as do also thoseof the house adjoining, where Samuel J. Tildenlived, so that there is an outlook on the parkfrom the front and on a broad garden spacefrom the rear, and the house was deliveredto the club altered, decorated, furnished, andfully equipped by its founder, the late EdwinBooth, a much-loved name within its walls. Though founded by an actor, the club re-ceived its apt name at the suggestion of anauthor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich. It was inthe summer of 1887 that on the Oneida, thesteam yacht of Grover Clevelands friend, Benedict, there were Edwin Booth, Law-rence Barrett, Mr. Aldrich, Laurence. Hutton,and William Bispham. Mr. Booth there forthe first time intimated that he would like tofound a club in memory of his father, Junius[ 204 J. Photographed by Sarony Edwin Booth ^ THEIR HOMES Brutus Booth. In the course of the ensuingtalk over the proposal, Mr. Aldrich suggestedthe felicitous name which the club now bears. Early the following year (January, 1888)Augustin Daly gave a breakfast at which theyacht party were present, and among othersSamuel L. Clemens ( Mark Twain ), Joe Jefferson, John Drew, and Gen. WiUiam Te-cumseh Sherman. By the following monththe club had been incorporated, among theincorporators being Edwin Booth, LawrenceBarrett, Augustin Daly, Joseph Jefferson,Harry Edwards, James Lewis, John Drew,Samuel L. Clemens, and General Sherman. The presence in this list of the names ofSherman and Clemens showed that, in spiteof its name, the Players was not to behmited to actors. Under the constitutionehgibihty to membership embraces any onewho is engaged in Hterature, painting, sculp-ture, architecture, or music, or who is a patron or[ 207 ] FAMOUS ACTORS connoisseur of the arts.
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