The Stage, Or, Recollections of Actors And Acting From An Experience of Fifty Years;
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speech, and It is an insult to the whole commun- ity." The next night Metamora was acted to empty benches, and consequently withdrawn, and the remaining nights of Mr. Forrest's engagement showed, by the returns at the box-office, that the citizens of Augusta did not relish any adverse opinions upon the legislative decisions of the State of Georgia. FORREST AT A BOSTON SUPPER. While Mr. Forrest was fulfilling an engagement in the old Tremont Theatre, Boston, somewhere about 1840 or '42, some of ...my friends — among them the late Hon. George S. Hillard and some of the professors at Cambridge — knowing his dis- inclination to accept invitations to formal enter- tainments, expressed a desire to meet and pass an evening with him socially ; and it was sug- gested that my house would be an appropriate place. Knowing these gentlemen to be admirers of the great English actor Mr. Macready, and rather inclined to underrate Mr. Forrest's intel- lectual qualities, I at once accepted the proposition, and invited them to meet my friend at supper on a Saturday evening, the custom in Boston at that time being to have no theatrical performances on that night.
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