HBH 1890 July 9 CUSHMAN and BARRETT Overseas news:- One icy night, Charlotte CUSHMAN and Lawrence BARRETT came out of the theatre together. The steps were dangerously slippery, and it was with difficulty that they kept their feet at all. As they tottering descended, the great actress said to her companion, quite in her Lady Macbeth manner: "Take a good grip on my arm, Lawrence, and if I slip, hold on like grim death; but if you slip, in the name of heaven, let go!"