Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-01-10
Deatsa Of Edwin FUrTest.,

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Edwin Forrest the great tr,grtlfah Is drai
The press is teeming With tributes to his ge
mus. We find tile following Ia the Saval,n;.i
Advertiser OF tile 18Th:
Tie telegraph tells us t,at II great dramat
ic light has gene CUT. LGM.n Forrest, Il, j
ripe old age, aud yet in fuii pussessloll fllis
intellectual overs, has been called upon /.
| make his final exir.
Mr. Forrest was the ,nesS prominent, II no
Z tile most eminent actor that this counti
/ iias produced. In the prime at ms p.oirs
-ieiiHi career he Il as llr .llnst poplslaf. Vii
but limited education, ami i professional ex
y fie,tee bounded BY i few a:iiaieur tllra.ri
cs.l pertorn.anccs, he sought the stage ye1J
carly III life.
/ Discouraged By his first efforts, III fnrsoos
The iout lights and tuunbicd Into The saw ius
| OF circus ring. MalnIy at the entire Ties o
his friend and compeer. Sol. smith. who s.. )
the stuff he had in hilr, he returned to hi.
first love, and found tlnle and fortune. Lis
powers Us ! tisl9edian re eiyed The stamp O
| ,ils critics anu audiences of this cJuliiry ant
Europe. For many years 3ir. Forrest stow,
at the head Ct the American stage, and ever
IN Europe divided the honors u TRACED,
With none bnI Macrvaly.
Mlcrr;,dy is new tile miserable old MAJ, liz
was wont TO so folclbly portray iii Lear
while his great rival has gone from off tie
Stage in different way. The rivalry be-
tween these actors was the cause of a bloody
siot III the city Of New York more than TWEEN
" years ago. 81.
But il Mr.. Forests career was full OF hos.
ofs and successes. he was not absolved from
the cares and troubles that sometimes clinr
to the domestic hearth. He married ihe
pretty daughter of he English ballad singer
incl.iir. The nractii proved All unhappy one,
and resulted In separation and subseq,e, ,ly
III diroist suit, hat still stands iii tile books
rs oiic OF tile celebrated cases III the kiaa
Glias. O'Joailor and JOHN Van Buren, We're
auiing counsel On either side. aid tile I,te-
riotis John w. Forney was brought TO he
front III !, most dlsrep,tablc attcin,t TO serve
his friend Forrest, by procuring false tesii-
lllOhy against his wife. tt ii
Public opinion was, and is still, divided as
to where tile blame should rest as between
5lr.td Mrs. Forrest; bit the result Ut the
tri Was the subject oi great trouble, pecun-
III and mental, to Mr. Forrest Tor the bal-
;lllee Ut his liie Esss
lle kept Ills place upon the sta. e with fac
DItfs ItssH tstjS UsIUfe fifS yivsTfi
Ing readings lii the Northern cities, AMI u
tile great master Of The tragic muse IT was
il0t said or written:
superfuous The scterai, lags upon the stage
The acting of Sr. Forrest was Of the ro-
bust aud physics school. Judged by the cui
ret taste of the present day he wnul be Dc
elared too strong and dsmonstraliye in ac-
tion and education. Yet he was capable 0i
fire and delicate touches. as ;lll who have vi,
messed his Hamlet ard Richelic,i can attest.
In sllrli pieces as lack Catle, lamun and Iy-
thils. Spartacns and Metamora. the two last
expressly written for him, he ialiao rival
The landmarks OF the generation ahead oi
lis arr .flst falling down. Within afeW days
the Press has given III, Greeley, Medicine has
incurred Stone. and now the masks If Es-
rhsins and MomuS in the temple Of Thespis,
are draped for Edwin Forrest.