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... died with his boots on , in the best troupers ' tradition . Although desperately ill with the last stages of tuberculosis he insisted upon appearing for a performance of his play Le Malade Imaginaire , The Imaginary Invalid ! He barely ...
... died with his boots on , in the best troupers ' tradition . Although desperately ill with the last stages of tuberculosis he insisted upon appearing for a performance of his play Le Malade Imaginaire , The Imaginary Invalid ! He barely ...
Page 218
... died in 1906. In the preceding few years he had undergone two paralytic strokes , the last of which began to undermine his mental faculties . He died , partly the victor and partly the vanquished . He had suffered much from a sense that ...
... died in 1906. In the preceding few years he had undergone two paralytic strokes , the last of which began to undermine his mental faculties . He died , partly the victor and partly the vanquished . He had suffered much from a sense that ...
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... died . He was succeeded as manager and leading player by David Douglass , who also married Hallam's widow ; about as thorough a job of succession as could be wished for . Douglass brought the Company back to New York . A second attempt ...
... died . He was succeeded as manager and leading player by David Douglass , who also married Hallam's widow ; about as thorough a job of succession as could be wished for . Douglass brought the Company back to New York . A second attempt ...
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