How Edwin Booth Was Hissed

To the Editor of The Reg-ster: gIB:_A. dozen or fifieenyeurs ago when Edwin Booth's blood was warmer thn it is today, the noted tragedian appeared at the opera house of Acn Arbor in not the best of spirits. The boys - " thoe horrid students"- ihough, were feeling at their bes ; and long before the curtain went up had xpressed their good humor in more than one boyish prank. The actor's nérvea were shocked ; they are of delioate mechanism any way as we all know, and like the elephaiit, are capable of bearing their slightest impressirns for years. As the time drew near lor CD8Ílive Ned to take his cuehe was nearer the condition of a mad-man than f a composed and drliberate actor, fie walked in and of course wa greeted with an applause that stormed the roof and drowned his words. To be thus greeted a? a ballet dameer in well "made" tights, was a greaterdisappointment, perhaps, than all ; bul the worst of it was, the appUuse did not stop lili it had gone to an unreasonable dejref. He started his lines again and agin; he was not given aurlience, and then ihe soraething happened, it has happened since then and at every creditablö show, and probably will happen (or jears to come in this community. The better 3la8 of his audience called for bílence by the conventional and admonitive " 8h - , - sh - ," and the boisterous racket wasstopped; but Edwin Buoth had been hi.sgtd - so he thought. His angcr was unlimited, and though he finished his play atter a lashion, he vowed ncver to place himself again before an Ann Arbor audience. So far he has kept good his word, coming several times as near as our sister town, "Ypsilanli, but turning with disdain his bRck on the community trom which he received his supposed infult. The l ion of the gtudents has suüered some froni hira, and the story also poes that a ííew York paper con'ained at the time an arlicle severely censuring this commu uity, but especially the students, siuposed to have been written by ihe offended actor. Such a stoty, though, can not rec-eive muehcredence from those who know Booth better, and it is doubtless a hoax that many times telling and the lo'g lapse of time have rendered real. B jotli's is not i saentially a foruiving spirit ; it is too liaughty, fine and Bensitive; but its wounds are capable of healing atter all, and in company with the less sensilive, though equally as talented, Barrett, has ai least condescended to forget oíd scores ar.d once more shake hand-í with ihe peopie who alway respected him but hal j-uch a queer way of showing it.