...devoting yourself to one part, or even one line of parts, just because you happened to be good in it, and he were ill, or unfit to play, he would often receive...assassinate the President. I know from my own limited exthe audience liked it. A hit meant only perience how high feeling could run in that you had put a...

...close, very strong. No matter how far apart they were, she seemed to know, in some mysterious way, when anything was wrong with him. If he were ill, or unfit...when she could not possibly have received any news from him. He has told me this, himself." Ann Hartley Gilbert, The Stage Reminiscences of Mrs. Gilbert...

...the two well. "No matter how far apart they were, she seemed to know, in some mysterious way, when anything was wrong with him. If he were ill, or unfit...when she could not possibly have received any news from him."12 That morning, as the bells tolled in New York, Mary Ann Booth felt that something truly...