It is understood that no one can achieve high success as an actor who is not a master of the art of elocution, using the word “elocution" in its amplest sense. Such a master was Edwin Booth.

Actual voice records of Edwin F. Booth, the foremost American actor of the last century and said to be the greatest Hamlet of all time, have been salvaged for posterity largely through the work of ...

The Booth Theatre opened in 1913 and was designed by Henry B. Herts as a companion to The Shubert Theatre. It was named after an earlier theater which was named for actor Edwin Booth, who happened ...