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this is the unusual combination employed by beautiful relationship with Joseph, his actorto his father although he is a full-fledged star of the world.
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ambition to be an actor was quickly squelched, still further relegated into the background of adolescent dreams by circumstances. After the death of his father, his mother married again. His stepfather was a business man. bound to the traditions of his middle-class station. He probably never realized the cruelty he inflicted upon the sensitiveness of a boy whose heart ached to play-act.
Rudolph was educated in the Greek school and, in his teens, in Austria. At eighteen, he smuggled a dictionary into the house and taught himself German, believing that language to be the key to the magic theater world.
Girding himself for a bold stroke, he slipped out one night. Home meant being tied to a routine of some trade or business, a comfortable existence, but the smothering of that vague boyhood dream of acting which during school years had become a dominant urge. Ahead lay an unknown road, which he soon found to be rock-paved.
For nine years he toured the provinces of Germany with a traveling show. In a rickety
Mamma Schildkraut and her "two clowns." Thus she speaks of the actors whose joys and sorrows she has shared for thirty years.
Photo by Freulich
Kindly and tolerant, the elder Schildkraut is rounding out a long and distinguished stage career by making for himself an equally high place on the screen.
green wagon and its trailer lived a dozen people, carrying' their own scenery. When they reached a town, the actors fell to, erected a tent theater and stage and put on their performances. They would play as long as "capacity" lasted and then move on, meager bag and baggage, to another village, their worldly possessions packed in a few dilapidated boxes and satchels. Schildkraut earned then the equivalent, in our money, of ten cents a day.
Food ? Frequently they ate, but often they didn't. The company would pool its finances ' and the manager's wife would cook their meals over a camp fire. When there were no coins! they would raid the. fields and come back laden with corn which many a time, impa-'