Memorial Celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Birth of Edwin Booth
Memorial Celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Birth of Edwin Booth
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Forrest's growing fondness for certain native tragedies, in which declamation took the place of poetry, or a cut-and-dried type of character that of real nature, may have separated himself somewhat from the cur- rents in which aesthetic judgment was beginning to run. It is the highest eulogy one can pronounce upon an English 29 IN MEMORIAM — EDWIN BOOTH actor to say that his masterpieces of performance were the master- pieces of Shakespeare's creation, for they imply more than the ordinary requ...irements of a good performer. These are manifold and of a high order, physical, intellectual, emotional and volitional, and these Mr. Booth possessed in a large measure, and he im- proved them by study and self-discipline. Small in stature, he was yet compact and well-proportioned in build, and he carried him- self with a rare dignity and grace, so that his poses were always statuesque and his motions like the wave of the bending corn. His mobile features, lighted by large lustrous eyes, made his face not merely handsome, but exceedingly expressive; while his voice, clear as a bell, and loud as a trumpet, ran through the whole gamut of vocal utterance, marrying sweetness to sonor- ousness of sound without a jar.
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