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“Yes,” he answered with sudden seriousness, “I’ve had some wonderful pasts. And I’m not ashamed of any of them.
“I was fresh from jail,” he went on, for the first time in our long acquaintanceship referring to those dark days in which he had an opportunity to check his list of friends. “Oh, I was fresh from jail. (What a boob I was — then!) And my lawyer advised me not to hang my head, but to go out among men.
“I went with him one night to a public banquet in New York. As I was about to seat myself, a man who had known me well said with a sneer :
“ ‘I’m afraid you’ve made a mistake — this table is reserved for celebrities.’
“ ‘I qualify for it perfectly,’ I said to him — ‘I am both famous and notorious!’
“And sometime later, when this gentleman, cruel with wine, said, ‘Mr. Hitchcock, didn’t you use to clean bathtubs in a barber shop?’ I answered:
“ ‘Yes ; but I don’t recall ever preparing a bath for you.’ ”
We got out at a pharmacy and ate ice-cream soda and talked showmen.
“Billy Sunday and George Cohan are the greatest showmen in the world, and one of them is on the level,” quoth Hitchy.
“Where’d you get the idea of hand-shaking your audience ?”
“From Georgie Cohan. I sent him an emergency call to Atlantic City, and he came with his small selfesteem and large genius and knocked ‘Hitchy-Koo’ into shape. He told me to get right down in the aisle and talk to the audience by the hand. ‘They’d hang anybody else, but you can get by with it,’ says Georgie.