"The
meeting of the Rotary Club of New York City, held at the Hotel Astor on
August 24th was of unusual significance to the American drama. More than
seven hundred guests, among the many America's leading actors,
play-wrights, producers, artists, and writers, paid fitting tribute to the
memory
of Edwin Booth, and accepted on behalf of the Rotary Club of America a
life-size portrait of Booth, which will be placed in the Shakespeare
Gallery at Stratford.
At the speakers' table, left to right: Augustus Thomas,
play-wright; Robert L. Hatch, president, Rotary Club
of New York, and Raymond J. Knoeppel, past president; Robert B. Mantell;
Edward Davies past president, Vaudeville Artists Ass'n; Arch Klumph, Past
International Rotary
President; John J. Murdock, general manager of the Keith Circuit; and
Julia Arthur."
-Clipping from THE
ROTARIAN
October, 1922
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