Among his childhood favorites were Dickens, Smollett, Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington, and later, Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman.

Booth died of cancer in Devon in 2004, shortly after completing Gweilo, a memoir of his Hong Kong childhood written for his own children.

* Martin Booth – deceased author of over 30 novels, including Industry of Souls, Music on the Bamboo Radio and Gweilo: Memoirs of a Hong Kong childhood.

Bleasby was the childhood home of William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

Afterward, Edwin led the younger Booth to the theatre's footlights and said to the audience, " I think he's done well, don't you?

Booth, who had promised his mother at the outbreak of war that he would not enlist as a soldier, increasingly chafed at not fighting for the South, writing in a letter to her, " I have begun to deem myself a coward and to despise my own existence ".

Later, however, Booth remarked about his " excellent chance ... to kill the President, if I had wished ".

Lamenting the negative reaction to his deed, Booth wrote in his journal on April 21, 1865, while on the run, " ith every man's hand against me, I am here in despair.

1960 ); Blok, Alexander: " The Puppet Show ", " The Light Wandered about in the Window ", " The Puppet Booth ", " In the Hour when the Narcissus Flowers Drink Hard ", " He Appeared at a Smart Ball ", " Double " ( 1902 – 1905 ; series related to Blok's play The Puppet Show under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guro, Elena: " Boredom " and " Lunar ", from The Hurdy-Gurdy ( 1909 ); Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich: " Where will I find words " ( 1906 ), " In sad and pale make-up " ( 1912 ).

He appeared in such plays as Vincent, Fiddler on the Roof, The Man in the Glass Booth, Oliver !, Six Rms Riv Vu, Full Circle, Camelot, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The King and I, Caligula, The Four Poster, Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, Equus and My Fair Lady.

Booth Tarkington told him, " I would rather see you play Sherlock Holmes than be a child again on Christmas morning.

The crew consists of Captain Dan Holland, First Officer Lieutenant Charlie Pizer, journalist Harry Booth, ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae, the expedition's civilian leader Dr. Alex Durant and the robot V. I. N. CENT (" Vital Information Necessary CENTralized ").

Theatrical Manager Noah Ludlow, who was performing with Booth at the time at the American theatre in New Orleans, recounts the actual events starting on page 230 of his memoir Dramatic Life As I Found It and concludes: " Therefore I consider the story of Mr. Booth having performed Orestes in the French language, on the French stage, altogether a mistake arising from his having acted that character in the French theatre of New Orleans in 1822, but in the English language.

His best pieces from the late thirties are collected in Back Where I Came From ( 1938 ) and The Telephone Booth Indian ( 1942 ).

* Booth, Cecily: Cosimo I — Duke of Florence, University Press, 1921

Booth went on to construct Michigan's largest newspaper empire, founding the independent Booth Newspapers chain ( now owned by S. I.

* " I Believe ", by Booth and the Bad Angel

According to James Booth, who prepared the Coleman texts for publication in 2002, the adoption of a female persona was in line with the pose of " girlish narcissism " that Larkin was affecting in the summer of 1943: " I am dressed in red trousers, shirt and white pullover, and look very beautiful ".

The soundtrack includes " Halo " by Texas, " Brown Paper Bag " by Roni Size, " Fall in Love with Me " by Booth and the Bad Angel, " Fools Like Us " by Echo & the Bunnymen, " Tape Loop " by Morcheeba, and " I Only Want to Be with You " by Dusty Springfield.

Booth Newspaperswas sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976.

In Boston, Edwin Booth was winding up a performance of A New Way To Pay Old Debts.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln's assassin was preparing to use his weapons.

On 25 January 1939, a Columbia University team conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States, which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall ; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack.

It was Ball, according to numerous radio historians, who suggested Arden for Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but failed to land the role and Ball – committed at the time to My Favorite Husband – could not.

This was suggested by Henry Booth, the treasurer of the L & MR.

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor.

Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army.

Of the conspirators, only Booth was completely successful in carrying out his respective part of the plot.

Following the assassination, Booth fled on horseback to southern Maryland, eventually making his way to a farm in rural northern Virginia 12 days later, where he was tracked down.

Booth's companion gave himself up, but Booth refused and was shot by a Union soldier after the barn in which he was hiding was set ablaze.

They purchased a farm near Bel Air in Harford County, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children.

Junius Brutus Booth's wife, Adelaide Delannoy Booth, was granted a divorce in 1851 on grounds of adultery, and Holmes legally wed John Wilkes Booth's father on May 10, 1851, the youth's 13th birthday.

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

As recounted by Booth's sister, Asia Booth Clarke, in her memoirs written in 1874, no one church was preeminent in the Booth household.

It has been alleged but remains unconfirmed that later in life, Booth became a Roman Catholic, possibly converted by his sister, Asia Booth Clarke, who however died in the Protestant Episcopal faith and was buried in an Episcopal ceremony.

By the age of 16, Booth was interested in the theatre and in politics, becoming a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections.

Historian Benjamin Platt Thomas wrote that Booth " won celebrity with theater-goers by his romantic personal attraction ", but that he was " too impatient for hard study " and his " brilliant talents had failed of full development.

The National Republican drama critic said Booth " took the hearts of the audience by storm " and termed his performance " a complete triumph ".

Booth had been rehearsing at the Richmond Theatre when he abruptly decided to join the Richmond Grays, a volunteer militia of 1, 500 men travelling to Charles Town for Brown's hanging, to guard against an attempt by abolitionists to rescue Brown from the gallows by force.

Once in Confederate hands, Lincoln would be exchanged for the release of Confederate Army prisoners of war held captive in Northern prisons and, Booth reasoned, bring the war to an end by emboldening opposition to the war in the North or forcing Union recognition of the Confederate government.

An English translation, entitled A Sovereign Antidote against Arian Poyson, appeared in London, 1719, and again ‘ revised, corrected, and, in a few places, abridged, by Abraham Booth ,’ under the title of The Deity of Jesus Christ essential to the Christian Religion, 1777.

Bill Bryden, written by Michael Hastings, from the novel by Booth Tarkington, January 1999

Adapted by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Harold Clurman, it racked up an impressive 389 performances, opening at the Booth Theatre on 18 October 1961 and closing on 22 September 1962.