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Great Last Act!
Splendid supper at the Algonquin. Drinks. Or simply a scrumptious self-indulgence from our Dessert Buffet. With tomorrow's liveliest, literate conversation, as always!
Cocktails in the Lounge. Memorable food, both before and after theatre. In midtown we're always on your way to where you're going. 
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The Algonquin 
"landmark of the literate"
THE ALGONQUIN, 59 W. 44th St., New York MU 7-4400
Complimentary garage parking all evening for Algonquin pre-theatre Dinner Guests (from 5:45 p.m. to 2 a.m.) Week-end visitors also enjoy complimentary parking. 
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A Footnote to History
EDWIN BOOTH, the great 19th-century American tragedian, was deeply and permanently affected by Abraham Lincoln's assassination at the hand of his brother and fellow actor, John Wilkes Booth. 

Nevertheless he was able to exorcise his brother's ghost in a curious way. How it happened was told after his death to the actor Otis Skinner by an old property man, Garrie Davidson, who had served Edwin Booth for many years in various backstage capacities. 

One stormy evening in February, 1873, Booth instructed Davidson, then a boy, to wake him at three in the morning. His apartment was over the stage of his theatre. Together Booth and young Davidson went to the furnace room under the theatre. In one corner was a large trunk tied with ropes which Booth directed Davidson to cut. In the trunk lay the costumes of John Wilkes Booth - swords, wigs, a robe from Othello, a Hamlet hauberk, Mark Antony's toga. 

In silence Booth passed the costumes one by one to Garrie Davidson to be burned in the furnace. At length he drew out of the trunk a purple velvet tunic and a cloak trimmed in fur. Both were wrinkled and shabby. Booth sat down on the trunk with the costumes on his knees and wept. 

"This was my father's Richard III dress," he said. Davidson suggested the costume be saved. But Booth said, "No, put it in with the others."

He asked Davidson to destroy the trunk as well. For a long time the two of them stood watching everything burn. Finally Booth told the boy to shut the furnace door. It was nearly six in the morning when Booth said, "We'll go now." He never alluded to the incident again. 

by Florence Tarlow

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