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a fortune at the Chicago Opera House — in order to get a house here for ‘Gypsy Love.’ I told Erlanger I wanted to send ‘Gypsy Love’ to Chicago. He said:
“ ‘I know a better place — the store house.’
“Well, if I hadn’t had a Chicago success to swap him for a New York failure, I couldn’t have brought ‘Gypsy Love’ here and made something like a hundred thousand out of this and other midwestern territory. I knew then I needed my own Chicago theater.”
“You’ve built a good one.”
“Yes, I think it’s the best production I ever made. But wait till you see the Apollo ! . . .
“I’m glad Louie Mann wasn’t here in time for the bomb. He was pretty well scared of his German part in ‘Friendly Enemies.’ . . .
“Funny, about that play. Did I tell you it was written in five days?”
“What took so long?”
“I’ll tell you about that. But first — well, Sam Bernard meets me at the Knickerbocker and tells me Arthur Hopkins is after a play that Sammy Shipman and Aaron Hoffman want to w'rite. Bernard wants me to get it and put him and Mann in it — talk about high explosives! Only, he’s afraid, he says, that some guy will shoot Mann for the German he’ll have to play.
“Now, the funny part of this is that I’ve just that day given this guy Shipman a thousand dollars on a ten-minute scenario of this play — and given it to him just to get rid of him. He’s pestering the life out of me with the big idea.
“Strange, how things sometimes run in bunches. Bernard and I walk down the street and run plump into Mann. And before either of us can say a word Mann says: