Breaking a leg

[SpruceCreekHawk]

(10-01-2014 01:01 PM)Gene C Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 11:55 AM)SpruceCreekHawk Wrote:  I am new to the forum

Welcome to the forum, and nice avitar. I don't recognize the photo, who is it?

I wonder if back then the patient didn't try to get half drunk to help deal with the pain? They did in the movies.

Thank you! It's an unknown woman from an daguerreotype picked up in a shop in Winter Park, Florida by my parents about 30 years ago. I used it as the centerpiece of an historical murder mystery set in Washington, D.C. in 1864 to represent the victim, Jane Tuell.

Booth certainly wasn't averse to drink and may well have self-medicated for May's surgery, but I'm guessing he couldn't have been completely sloshed for his performance. Then again, thinking of Richard Burton, maybe he could have been pickled and performed wonderfully.