Edwin Booth bought an interest in the Winter Garden Theatre at 667 Broadway in New York City together with his brother-in-law John Sleeper Clarke.
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Asia Booth (1835–1888), married John Sleeper Clarke, an actor/comedian who was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the assassination.
but it was not until he became again, in 1861-'62, to the same theatre that he made a conspicuous mark.
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In 1867 he went to London, where he made his first appearance at the St. James's as Major Wellington de Boots in Stirling Coyne's Everybody's Friend, rewritten for him and called The Widow's Hunt.
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Among his favourite parts were as Timothy Toodle in William E. Burton's The Toodles, which ran for 200 nights at the Strand Theatre, and two roles from plays by George Colman "the Younger": Dr. Pangloss in The Heir-at-law, and Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman.
Edwin Booth and John Sleeper Clarke purchased the theatre in 1865, and then the theatre became part of The Shubert Organization in 1941.
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