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The Death Scenes of Madame Gerard
She's getting a thousand dollars per performance. She has the salary of two maids, two cooks and her beloved companion, madame gerrard. Other trains were diverted to side tracks to make way for her train if it was coming ya. The first time she earned the equivalent of six million dollars. There were a lot of moving parts, and she gathered a burnished reputation for artistry and eccentricity. You know, every death was jarring, instead of this beautiful, graceful pass from life kind of thing that everybody else was doing.