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mssin Booth’s otograph found ■ertsl gallery sale > semoieB arch 5[-,| United Press International ^IHICAGO — An original photo- rfg'jj Vh showing Abraham Lincoln’s Nlechmiiissin, John Wilkes Booth, full '°f D lid with an upturned mustache El ||)een found by a Chicago collec- Jstion F r ,| 1 By Roth, freelance cartoonist- ysics Cilstrator, said he purchased the r , Uniu By.id jnch photograph of the ' u ' ’ (jor for $25 nearly two years ago at E. TajVr lonicil), 1 GonlfeJ ‘ in H» ConreDii :al auction. Krainek, owner of Graphic iquity in suburban Arlington Ights, authenticated the picture a ik ago. He said he believed the Itowas taken in 1863 or 1864 and lorth about $2,000. photograph shows Booth in mial dress, apparently for a play. | hair is slightly long, covering ears and would be fashionable y. His mustache is twisted up at ends, unlike the more familiar, idy shots of Booth with a turned n mustache and face to one [t may be the only known fr ont Roth said, probably made “as mblicity shot.” The image is p, with Booth appearing hand- ssociak e in a long silk coat with ribbons ;h Saturin >n at 8 pi ion, directi iry corapk John* liege on ill al of Pud iry violat ouston Ste A&Ml'J Jsentafc the' darrinjtal ‘rt Cerlatj plicatiosi ger Mi® Chemiiin ng foilli Nationjltl. ntain, lili George | -ago, "Ih rd and Fa 3 p.m. gh Schonll coopenlitt Ider 601 lueonorh ; $143.(6!) $128 fori y now Coke Ball in the ra to av l knm tional i folk dm n.-5 p.in. he shoulders, ruffled shirt, with and buckle shoes. Women loved him,” Roth said, looks like a make-out guy. ” ith, 39, a collector of old pic- i, said he spotted the photo- jhat the Chicago gallery among coming up for sale. The name s Teiann ^ Wilkes Booth is written on the Ii/Xj! h of the picture but Roth said it not Booth’s signature, k bunch of other so-called Lin- Paymeu: |experts said it was their estima- [ it wasn’t Booth. I just took it ne. oth said he checked many books incoln. A copy of the picture of ith was finally found opposite 300 of Carl Sandburg’s Ab- ^ im Lincoln, The War Years, ame IV. noth, a member of an acting ilyand a Southern sympathizer, : Lincoln April 14, 1865, at fs Theater in Washington, raping to the stage. Booth ited ‘Sic semper tyrannis Thus t StlOPf 1 lystothe tyrants.’ He broke his but managed to escape out a ; door. le was hunted down and killed barn near Port Royal, Va., at ge of 27. ards, billiards used Mozart die a pauper United Press International 0NN, West Germany — Ifgang Amadeus Mozart, one of most gifted musical composers of lime, died a pauper because he his fortune playing billiards and Is —badly. Or so says a music orian who researched the com- fmancial records, pzart’s love of gambling — and indifference to his genius — was Iponsible for the poverty that gued the last years of his life, ac ting to historian Uwe Kraemer. [Iraemer explored the records of Mozart household from 1783, year after his marriage to Con- ize Weber, to 1791, the year he doftyphoid fever at the age of 35. nan article published Monday in magazine Musica, Kraemer does : dispute the composer of “The irriage of Figaro,” “Don Gio- mi,” symphonies, sonatas, and imber music died in need and buried in an unmarked grave, hit he says the reason is that izart frittered away his consider- e fortune at gambling. The West German historian said research disclosed that Mozart yed billiards and cards for large ns and played so badly he almost rays lost. He says from 1783 to 1786 Mozart ned about 10,000 gulden a year, equivalent of $108,000, for his icerts. In addition, he got large ns for his compositions and music sons. What did he do with this >ney?” Kraemer asked. “The mus- ace was a gambler who lost at liards and cards.” He quotes Franz von Destouches, mpil of Haydn, as saying, “Mozart s a passionate billiard player and played badly. He played for high RUM 3 P.M. JS $2.75 X) k 30 i 7:00 Sundew’ exas /all For Times 1C SOF 00 )RNF jst Scret ^ es . a h night long. He was very volous. His wife tolerated it.” Kraemer grants that the medical Is of Mozart’s sick wife were high dthat Mozart spent large Sums on travagant clothes and luxurious fellings but he says these expen- tires cannot account for his finan- He said Mozart made veiled ref ences in letters in his last years to gambling vice, referring to it as nopportuneness” and “certain atters.” Kraemer says the gambling losses Used the drop in Mozart’s popular- at the end of his life. He believes e rich and famous who supported mbegan to consider him unworthy their company. 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