The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-28

Catherine Norton Sinclair, who had re-
Gently won her divorce suit from Ed
win Forrest.
Forrest pursued everyone who coun-
| tenanced his wife with unreasoning vir-
ulence. He never forgave Edwin Booth
for having played with her. Edwin had
just finished a tour of the mining
towns and closed his engagement at
Sacramento preparatory to embarking
for the eastern states, under contract
to Ben Baker, to begin his career as a
star to fill the void left by his fathers
death.
1 followed his engagement at the For
rest theater, where Junius and his wife
were principal players. Edwin Booth
had been in California so long a time
and had appeared so often, that not
withStanding his personal popularity
even this, his last engagement, had not
yielded him an adequate sum to begin
his journey east. A few of his friends
rallied again and asked me to give UP
one of my nights for a parting benefit
to the young star and to participate
in the performance. This I was most
happy to do. although 1 had never met
Edwin On this evening of the day on
which this matter had been so pleas
antly arranged, 1 heard a knock at my
dressing room door. I was in the act
of changing my dress for the last act
OF 'Ingomar" A slender, graceful
form slipped into the room. A pair of
luminous eyes shone out from a beau
tiful oriental face illumined by as
sweet smile as ever came from a
finely chiseled mouth. A hand was ex-
tended which met with a firm and cor
dial grip. Only the brief simple words
Thank YOU came from his lips, and
he disappeared.
EDWIN'S SUCCESS IN IAGO.
I played Othello to his Iago, and the
house was packed. In his performance
of this subtle part 1 saw then the bud
ding fame that was to flower into
brilliant and prosperous career. And so
began a friendship that only ended
with his untimely end.
He was not ungrateful, for during
one of his brilliant engagements at the
st. Charles theater, New Orleans, he
volunteered for my benefit, and of
course drew tremendous audience,
acting Richmond to his Richard III.
We acted together often in the south
and west, but only once in New York.
and that for Ben Bakers benefit. The
play was "Othello." and I was terribly
frightened, as l had never acted so
great a part as the Moor in the me-
tropolis. Here the sweetness of Booths
nature was again manifest. for words
of encouragement came from him at
the end of the great scene in the third
act, when the audience summoned us
before the curtain. We also appeared
together at the theater in Boston. That
able manager, Thomas Barry, was the
lessee Here he began to show some
of his eccentric habits that marred the
career of his father. On one of these
nights the American tragedian, Edwin
Forrest, was sitting far back in a pri-
Vate box. He was on a visit to his
friend, James Cakes, the Acorn of
the New York Spirit of the Times.
Cakes told me afterward that the only
comment Forrest made on his pros
young man learn his lines?' AS Edwin
had imbibed most of his fathers great
characters by ear in the theater. he did
not trouble himself with the midnight
oil. But now, as recognition of his fine
powers came to him, he felt forced to
contend for mastery with the holder of
the dramatic crown. The fault that
was tolerated and condoned in his
father couidn't be overlooked in this
promising son. Edwin himself began
to perceive that the time had come to
chasten and curb the Bacchic ebulli-
tions that destroyed his great father
If he expected to reach the height on
which the master sat supreme. Edwin
Forrest still held the scepter and was
in the very zenith of his great powers
when the daring young actor made his
gallant attack on the intellectual world
by his ideal presentation of Hamlet
at the Winter Garden in New York. I
saw him quite often during the hun
dred-night run of this play. Chatting
one day he said: II understand you
acted Charles de Moor in German in
San Francisco. I intend to visit Ger
many some day and should like to play
Hamlet in that language"
EDWIN ACTS IN GERMANY.
He acquired this notion from the fact
that he had acted Iago to the Othello