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Rh -- America, Philadelphia, 1845, and his Life of Edwin Forrest, Philadelphia, [1874] ; W. R. Alger, Life of Edwin Forrest, Philadelphia, 1877; Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Forrest, Boston, 1882, who gives (p. 51) the east of The Gladiator at Drury Lane, October 17, 1836; Charles Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, Third Series, Chaps. 16, 25; P. C. Wemyss, Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor Manager, New York, 1847, Vol. 2, p. 239; E. P. Oberholtzer, Literary History of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1907.

In 1919, Dr. Clement Foust published the Life and Dramatic Work of Robert Montgomery Bird, containing a reprint of The Broker of Bogota, and printing for the first time The Gladiator, Pelopidas and Oralloossa.

On May 21, 1920, the Zelosophic Society of the University of Pennsylvania reproduced The Broker of Bogota at the Bellevue-Stratford Ball Room, Philadelphia, under the direction of Mrs. William Merriman Price. The production revealed clearly the great appeal of the play from the point of view of dramatic structure, and the fine quality of the blank verse was apparent. As had been expected, the characters of "Febro" played by Kirk Heselbarth, of the Class of '21, and of "Juana" played by Elizabeth Canning of the Class of '20, were the most appealing, and it was interesting to see that in a play written for Edwin Forrest, the most effective scene (Act IV, Scene 4) was one in which he was not on the stage.