We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
THE DUKE OF BROOKLYN 35
Broadway Jones, Billie Burke in Mind-the-Faint Girl, and Leo Ditrichstein in The Concert.
We also saw Queen Elizabeth in four reels with Sarah Bernhardt and Lou Telegen. This was the first movie in which important stage stars had appeared and also was the picture that started Adolph Zukor's fabulous film career.
Meanwhile I still had visions of myself as a Broadway star. Every afternoon I made the rounds of the theatrical offices and the agencies. No one ever had more confidence in his own ability and inspired less in the people who had jobs to offer. They turned me down for everything from chorus boy to stage manager.
After three months in the big city I counted up my cash reserve and realized that I would have to give up my stage career and look for some more prosaic job. So I began to call on all my father's friends in the hotel and restaurant business. They all greeted me with big smiles until they learned why I was there; then the smiles vanished and faraway looks came into their eyes. They all had the same answer: "Business is bad— were not hiring anybody."
I discovered that when you are broke you are about as popular as a wet dog in the parlor. Things went from bad to worse, and I began to dip into the sardines and the anchovies that Mother had packed in my trunk. I would go out and buy a box of soda crackers and make a meal out of canapes and champagne.
About this time Henry arrived in New York and saved my life. I might mention that Henry had discovered that he was no engineer, either. After his freshman year at Cornell he had, for some unaccountable reason, switched to the College of Agriculture. Now, after two years of book farming, he had landed a job as assistant dairy manager at the Munson Crosby estate near Rhinebeck, New York. But more important, just before leaving Ithaca he had won $200 in a crap game.
Henry loaned me twenty dollars and said that he would try