Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-06
HIS FAREWELL TOUR,

HIS FAREWELL TOUR.
Sir Johnston Forbes. Robertson, the
greatest Englisn-speaking actor of
this generation, will appear in this
city this season for the last time. He
is now making mis- farewell American
tour. It is not the purpose of this ar.
ticle to give a detailed list of the pro-
auctions in which he has appeared,
but to sketch briefly his career and
some Of his chief successes.
AS is well known, Forbes4Ro5e1 tson
started as IN artist. Before he was
twenty-one ne had sold many Of his
paintings. This life, however, was
thought too precarious a profession,
especially for a lad who was one of {.
family Of eleven, and he had to turn
elsewhere. What more natural than
that Forbes Robertson, himself the
son Of an art critic and Journalist,
should turn to the stage? 1t was for.
tunate for him, as he says, that, NAV.
ing decided to devote himself to the
stage, he came under the influence of
so great an artist as Samuel Phelps
a splendid master with that rare ca
pacity to impart, for it does not fol-
low that because a man is q good &C
tor ne can teach others. &C.
Forbes-Robertson soon leapt up the
ladder Of success. There was NO
keeping back this young Adonis with
the beautiful ascetic face which Ros-
setti himself had delighted to paint,
a golden voice which Irving or Kean
could we'll have envied, and a mag.
netio personality which appealed IT.
resistably to ali. He made his de-
but as Chastelard with Mrs. Rousby
in MARY Stuart" and soon after
wards became leading man at the
Haymaker with the Bancrofts; at the
'Garrick with John Hare; at the Lyce-
UNI with Henry Irving, where his
buckingham in Henry WILL" his
Ancelot in king Arthur" his
Claudio in "Much Ado About Moth
ing" and later a score of more nota-
bic parts challenged comparisons
with his famous chief.
Henry Irving "let" the Lyceum tc
ForbestRobertson to produce his
experimenting Hamlet; ais poetical
Romeo and his conscience-haunted
Macbeth. Subsequent productions at
other theatres included a scholarly
and altogether successful Othello and
Shylock in "The Merchan, Of Ven.
ice;" Michael and His Lost Angel
For the Crown" Mice and Men,
"The Light that Failed" "The Sacra;
ment Of Judas" "Madga," "Pelleas
and Melisande," 1.-THE Devils Disci,
ple," Caesar and Cleopatra" which
Bernard Shaw wrote for him, and
last-but not least-"Passing Of the
Third Floor Back" which ran
throughout an entire season in Lon.
don and in New York and was later
played by Forbes-Robertson for two
consecutive years GU tour Of the
United States and Canada.
Forbes4Robertson made his fare.
we'll tour Of England in 1928, APP
pearing for the last time on the Lon.
don stage at the Historic old Drury
Lane Theatre Royal in Hamlet" or
June 6, 1918. He was honored by the
king of England with the title O
knighthood at the close Of his Lon
don season. He began his farewe.
American tour in New York in Octo
Der 1918, and since that time ha.
been saying mis- farewell to the Ameri
can public. Though it has taken hin
| three seasons to cover all the leadin,
cities Of this continent, his farewell
is a genuine farewell, for he will nev
er return to any Of the cities he say.
farewell to.
At the close of mis- last season O.
Columbia University in New York be
slowed an honorary degree upon tn,
actor, the first instance in the his
tory OF the American stage that
foreign player nas been so honored.
Too many writers are disturbed
| 0var tho nrohlornc of aaEhaaoao a. u,