Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . I;. IN OLD BOSTON 261 in the bills Edwin T. Booth, was seen here forthe first time on any stage, his role being thesmall one of Tressel in Richard III to hisfathers Gloster. This was September 10, 1849,young Booth being then sixteen years old. Two very interesting things happened at theMuseum in the season of 1852-53: UncleToms Cabin was staged and Mrs. Vincentjoined the company. The dramatization of story was made by H. J. Conway,Frank Whitman played Uncle Tom, W. did Drover
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . I;. IN OLD BOSTON 261 in the bills Edwin T. Booth, was seen here forthe first time on any stage, his role being thesmall one of Tressel in Richard III to hisfathers Gloster. This was September 10, 1849,young Booth being then sixteen years old. Two very interesting things happened at theMuseum in the season of 1852-53: UncleToms Cabin was staged and Mrs. Vincentjoined the company. The dramatization of story was made by H. J. Conway,Frank Whitman played Uncle Tom, W. did Drover John, J. Davies was SimonLegree, E. F. Keach did the George Harris,J. A. Smith was the St. Clare, Mrs. WulfFries did the Eliza, Mrs. Thoman was AuntOphelia, Helen Western was the Eva andMiss Gazzynski acted Topsy. An interpolatedcharacter — Penetrate Partyside — who created comic relief in the play was done by WilliamWarren, and Mrs. Vincent, then a slim andswift young woman, acted Cassy. On onememorable evening Mrs. Stowe and her sister,together with their father, Rev. Lyman Beecher,— who ha
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