My own story (1934)

Page scan 00091 from My own story

Record Details:

Title:
My own story
Date:
1934
Publisher:
Boston : Little, Brown, and Company
Volume:
My own story
Leaf #:
00091
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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MY OWN STORY thing, whether I ever expected to use it or not. I shall never forget the first person I ever saw do a back bend with a handkerchief. I practically wrecked the furniture in my room, but before I quit I could do a back bend with the next one! Naturally, in the course of three years' trouping, we played many theaters again and again. I particularly enjoyed Cleveland. To this day, when I go back there and am called upon for a speech, I say in all sincerity, "I feel as if I know every one of you, because your fathers and your grandfathers used to wait for me at the stage door." Incidentally, I used this line in "Dinner at Eight." In those days, I was always happy when our itinerary took us through the Middle West, but I dreaded New England like the plague. Our salaries were so small that we couldn't afford hotels. A decent boarding house was the best we could do, and in New England the doors of the good boarding houses were slammed in our faces. Nobody wanted troupers. We usually wound up by going to rooming houses and eating in drab restaurants. After the long engagement with the Baker Opera Company terminated, I went to Chicago, where 1 joined Eddie Foy and Adele Farrington in "Little Robinson Crusoe", a Harry B. Smith musical piece. 69