Elephant dance (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
00041
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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His Highness has issued orders to give us all the H.II.'sZoo assistance we need. We may have his elephants. So everything looks rosy. 4 Reverend Sir, Fan Mail! In the daily newspaper I just now read the statement regarding your desire to have Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants immortalized in the celluloid. May I request your honour to give me a chance of taking however a small part in your ambitious project? Your honour will ask at once "What is your qualification and experience in this line?" Nothing of the sort, sir, except my sincerity, common intelligence and inquisitiveness, enterprise and intense zeal toward it. As regards myself, I am a youth of twenty, am five feet nine inches in height. For two years I am studying books on Cinematograph at home, theoretically, but Sir, none has yet extended me any opportunity to try my ability in the practical field to begin my life anew therewith. So at least I seek your favour and shelter.' 'Sir, I beg to remind you that according to your letter of the 17th May, 1935, 1 have not received any letter as yet as to what you have decided. Oh Sir, am I doomed? Often I curse the long past day when this idea of acting in film first struck to me and rooted 29