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show’ Then, still talking to New York, I got the receipts on White’s ‘Scandals’ — not so good. That show can play to twenty-five thousand a week and make only sixteen hundred; which gives me only about a dollar sixty for my share. Wouldn’t I like to have ‘Bombo’ guaranteed twenty-five hundred a week for the next nine years! — even though we’ll go close to forty thousand this week.”
‘‘Since when have you had a share in the ‘Scandals?’ ”
“Since I said I’d guarantee the salary of Paul Whiteman’s band; I thought it would be just as cheap to own a piece of the show,” he grins. “Besides, everybody was panning White — you know how arrogant he can be. You ought to hear him tell his actors how to ‘inflect’ this word, and ‘deflect’ that one, and how to give a ‘richer reading’ to a line. When I tried to tell him one of his ‘readings’ was all wrong, he said, ‘Al, what do you know? You’ve been with the Shuberts all these years.’ So I just naturally had to back him to the extent of — well, anyhow, I made a dollar sixty last week.”
“Don’t ever leave the Shuberts or you’ll be lost for a joke,” I warn him.
“They’d be losing a pretty good joke, too. But you should have seen me at the out-of-town tryout, getting ready for the Chicago opening. We’d been closed six weeks, and I had to go out and get shoes for the girls! There wasn’t a Shubert to help me within fifteen hundred miles. But when the tryout was over I could wire my wife that Pewterville thought we were great. She wired back : ‘Pewterville’s the place where they think the Kentucky Derby’s a hat.’ ”
“I’d like to meet that lady!”
“You wall. She’ll be back here after the show.