New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-05
Theatrical Criticism.
A written in the New York Sunday Mercurn

A writer in the New York Sunday Mercury thus
speaks of Forests " Hamlick: y
They is some actors who are lucky, likewise
some which is unucky, and the former is Edwin
Forrst, of Philadelphia. This man has been for
tunate from infancy, and is accounted great in
mouths Of wisest century; but he is not the actor
which can play Hamlik.n Shaks meant to make
the Prince of Denmark philosopher and scholar.
Forrst makes him roarin' lion, seekin' which he
may deyour.
In the first part of the first Ack, Mr.. Forrist is
heavy on his legs, and reminds me Of Heenan.
When he sees the sperit of his dead Pa, he is at
first respectable in his demeanor; but as the scene
goes on, he gets to speakin from the bottom of his
stomik, and is like roarn lion, seekin' which he
may deyolr.
In Aek the two the tragedian is more like .tHam-
k" and reminds one forsably of poor Kirby
only he turns in his 1t ispleasant to see him
standin by the sweet 0phely, like the fat boy by
the woman with long hair at Barnum's. But then
he can't be quiet long, and soon gets cussin and
swearin, and stomping about like a roarin lion,
seekn which he may deVour.
In the scene with the players, Mr.. FoIrst is
good, and does as well as kean or Macready or
Barney Williams but when the part comes where
he says
:" Why let strychnine dear go weep,
The hear ungallid play;
For some must dust while some must sweep,
And some go on bust when some may sleep
So rolls the world away
| burst out arfn and hit my fren' such a butt in
clean out of his watch-pockitt. 1t was for all
the world like a roarin' lion seekn' which he may
devour.
This actor is not a man who can read "Hamlik'sn
soliloquis with as much Judgment as Kirby. One
would think, to hear him doing them, that they
gave him great pain in the stomik, and was aW-
full hard to go. Shaks never wrote them to be
spokin in such aginy; and if Forrist don't know
this, he ought to stick to "Spartkus'' aud Meta
moras,' and leave the bird Of Avon alone.
But it is when Forrist's " Hamik'' comes to die,
that you see physikle developments of loud and
sagacious chariker. I've seen horses die several
| times; and once lost twenty shillings by having a
gray mare Of mine die on herway up hill but
never anything like Forrist in the last throws
You can see him from any part of the house, for
he dies all over everything and reminds aperson
of an accomplished Iouave in his final agony. 1t
is the death of roarin' lion seekn' which he may
devour.
One word and am done. This great tragedian,
this popular artick, oughtto have heard John Phily
kimble get off that address to the skull:
"Alas poor York. knew him well
a fellow of infinite vest, Horato, etc"
Now, Kimble always sneezed when he came to
Horatio,n because he said that in the days Of the
bird of Avon, Hoo-ra she-oo means a sneeze,
and Shaks. put the word there as stage direktion
It's SO in Colyers edition of the great dramytist,
emended by Collyer and the bird hisself. Mr.. For
rest needn't be ashamed to take a hint from the
kimbles, for they was infinitely superior to him,
The actor which would play Hamik' in inteliek-
tual style should initiate the philosophical ok
rather than the roarin' lion seekin' which he may
deyour.
ANOTHER REVEREND MURDERER.-Rey Henry
Bulge, OF Lewis county, N. y, (near Albany has
been indicted for the murder Of his wife, some
months since. 1t appears that Mrs. Bulge was
/ found dead in bed, with her throat horribly cut.
Mr.. B. was acquitted by coroners jury, but the
grand jury have opened the case again. II is said
the parties did not live very happily together, and
that MI. B. was more than necessarily attentive
to other females The case has created great
excitement, the whole people of the county ar
raging themselves into parties upon Mr.. BIS inno-
eence. Pamphlets pro and con have been pub
lshed and now the matter is to be settled BY ju-
dicial investigation.
| Woman is like iyy-the more you are ruined the
closer she clings to You. A vile bachelor adds
ivy IS like woman-the more it clings to you
the more you are ruinedn Poor rule that won't
work both ways.
Recruiting for Garibaldi is advertised in the Lon
don papers as an Excursion to the South of Italy,
Clever way to dodge neutrality laws. The end
makes great difference in the means.
Atarecent festive meeting, a married man, who
ought TO have known bRttnr