Movie Classic (Sep 1936-Feb 1937)

"Returning to the library, I worked all day and spent my noon hours waiting in the offices of booking agents. Somebody told me of a cheap theatrical troupe that needed another player. It was way over in a remote section of Brooklyn, and required two hours to reach the house where they were rehearsing, but I got the job — or thought I did. <<T?OR ten nights I rehearsed, going there " from the library. We worked hard and far into the early morning hours and were to open within a few days. I was to get twenty-five dollars a week. On the eleventh night, I arrived to see a girl going through my part. " 'You're through,' the manager told me. 'Get out.' He wouldn't even let me ask why. I knew I was better than the other girl. But when I wouldn't go some man led me out. " 'Forget it, sister,' he said. 'The boss's sweetie is back in town and wants the job.' So there I was. "I've never felt so down in the mouth. All that time and carfare wasted. It doesn't seem important now, but when you have only a few pennies, ten cents each way for carfare counts up. And I might have found something else. "I kept working on at the library until another opening presented itself, likewise in Brooklyn. A small show needed girls. "The manager saw what I could do and then suggested lunch. 'No thanks,' I begged off. 'So you're one of them there so-called virgins,' he sneered. "'So I don't get the job?' I asked. " 'Whatta you think, sister?' he snapped back, and told me to get out, fast. "Ziegfeld was my next try. With several hundred other girls trying out, I managed to be in the last bunch from whom the chorus was to be selected. But I lost out here, because I couldn't dance well enough. I once fractured both my feet and since then haven't been able to dance as well as I once could. Besides, I was out of practice. That seemed to me to be the last straw. If I couldn't dance, then what could I do?" Do you still think you could take it, you out there — and would you want to — if you were called upon to go through Joan's bitter experiences ? Could you retain your sense of humor, even though cold and hungry and discouraged and on the verge of despair, like Joan has done, without once losing it? And would you be a better person for all the suffering, just as Joan admits she is as a result of all those terrible months and years? You've heard the rest of Joan's story many times . . . how she finally won a place in the cast of the road company of The Trial of Mary Dugan, and for a year sent fifty dollars of her weekly seventy-five dollar pay check to her folks . . . how she entered the New York cast of My Girl Friday . . . and how she met Jimmy Cagney in the outer office of George Kelly, the writer-producer, and the same day was assigned by Kelly to the part in Maggie the Magnificent which was to bring her so sensationally to the attention of New York's theatrical world. 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