Describes attending Goodall's benefit theater performance. Transcription: of Goodalls. She [Charlotte Kidder] will make an [word crossed out] average actress, that ?s all. Was applauded and her songs encored. She played in the concluding piece also, before the conclusion of which we left, having sat during the last half-hour on a perfect hurricane of pea nuts. It is a coarse ambition the desire for such applause as the gross breath of a theatre audience. To be canvassed and criticized, your name handled as [word crossed out] a Mob ?s plaything, ? bah! But the willful little fool is well fitt
Describes attending Goodall's benefit theater performance. Transcription: of Goodalls. She [Charlotte Kidder] will make an [word crossed out] average actress, that ?s all. Was applauded and her songs encored. She played in the concluding piece also, before the conclusion of which we left, having sat during the last half-hour on a perfect hurricane of pea nuts. It is a coarse ambition the desire for such applause as the gross breath of a theatre audience. To be canvassed and criticized, your name handled as [word crossed out] a Mob ?s plaything, ? bah! But the willful little fool is well fitted for the career she hath embarked in. All the stage bickerings, and bustle, new faces &c will she plunge into with fitting avidity. After all the alloy out balances by far the sterling metal in her composition. 12. Thursday. Wrote for [Thomas W.] Strong &c Took it down, called at Reveille Office, Lockington ?s, and having heard that [Joseph] Richardson had returned Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 31, February 11-12, 1852 . 11 February 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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