February 5 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Mother & I went to see Margaret Illington [Frohman] in The Thief. She was very fine & we went to talk to the dear impulsive creature after the play. Dan Frohman tried to find a cab for us, for ours didn’t stay for us & so we had to get home by trams in a driving snow storm” [MTP: IVL TS 17].
February 5? Wednesday – On the S.S. Bermudian en route to N.Y.C. Sam, Ralph W. Ashcroft, and Margaret Blackmer wrote on an engraving of the ship to Elizabeth Wallace at the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda: “We all send our grateful remembrances and kindest regards to Miss Wallace, Maud[e] & Reginald.” [MTP]. Note: Maude was the donkey they used for excursions, directed by the 12-year-old black boy, Reginald. See Hoffman’s Mark Twain in Paradise p.91-2.