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So I played in a number of class and college plays and sketches, with the result that all my old yearning to be an actor surged again to the surface. I had advertised in a theatrical sheet through which many stock companies hired players, and when I received a wire from the Dubinsky Brothers to join their company in Kansas City, I hopped a train and made record time getting to the theatre." The late Jeanne Eagels appeared first with the Dubinskys, preceding by some years Talbot's association with them. With the young actor's hasty exodus from college to resume a career he had thought never to enter again, there followed a number of years of stock experience, acting with such shows as the Savage Bros., Elwin Strong, Clinton and Bessie Robbins and Chase-Lister, the latter, in particular, wellknown through the Middle West. "It's an odd thing," Talbot continues, "but the advent of talking pictures was the cause of the failure of my most ambitious undertaking. I had played a season of stock in Memphis, when the company blew up and the town was left with no regular theatre enterprise. "I hadn't been home in some time, so I returned to Nebraska for a month or so. During my visit, a wealthy gentleman with whom I had become quite friendly in Memphis wrote me asking if I would be interested in starting and managing a new stock company in that city. Each of us would put up $5000, the authority to choose plays and casts to rest in my hands, and we would carry on where the other company had left off. "Naturally, such a proposition appealed to me and I left immediately for Memphis. I had gone ahead with the preparations, hiring players from other cities, buying props and scenery, and we had set the opening date when my friend was hurt in an accident and after he had partially recovered was still so shocked and nervous that all thought of embarking in a show left him. And there I was, holding the sack, literally, for I hadn't received his share of the money. "I managed to find other capital, after much scurrying about, but the show from the start was doomed. Talking pictures were a novelty ; the public flocked to_ the movie houses. Where, the season previous, they had patronized the stock theatre, we were forced to close through lack of boxoffice receipts. As we gave our farewell performance, I never dreamed that my failure in Memphis would lead me, indirectly, to the studios of the industry responsible for this failure ! "With several of the actors I started for New York in my Cadillac. We had very little money between us, and it must have looked funny to see us draw up in an expensive car to the cheapest hotels in the towns where we were to spend the night !" After some months in and about the eastern metropolis, Talbot received a call from Boston to appear in "The Criminal Code." When the producers of the play had lured him from New York, they had intended playing the piece for several weeks, then go on the road. As they made arrangements to entrain with the "company, it was discovered the props and scenery were too weighty to be moved! The company disbanded. Although not exactly lucrative from a financial standpoint, the experience did prove profitable, for a prominent Michigan stock company heard of him through one of their scouts and sent for him. Again, Talbot turned disaster to his own advantage. A season with this company and a friend wrote him that he had arranged for Talbot to join the Ernest Truex company in London. To do this, he must leave immediately, almost upon receipt of the letter. "Only two weeks remained before the show would close," explains Talbot, "so the manager, when I put it up to him, told me to go without the customary notice. For some unknown reason, I was warned not to ask for a permit to work in the British Isles. "When I reached London, I went into the play at once. Then fell the blow. 1 worked two days, when officers asked to see my labor permit. Naturally, I had none. Consequently, I was barred from appearing on the stage in England, after I had traveled so far for the part. "Of course, I was pretty discouraged and disappointed by the whole affair, but after I had slept over it I decided that as long as I had come this far I might as well make the most of my opportunities. So, for the next few months, I toured Europe, seeing everything I had wanted to see for years. "On my way home, a radiogram arrived, asking if I would consider a job with a stock company in Columbus, Ohio. Would I ! When I disembarked at New York, I had less than eight dollars to my name. "For twenty-five weeks everything went sweet and lovely. I liked the company and my associates, I liked the people who came to the theatre. We were putting on good plays. The world looked rosy. "The crash came suddenly, although we might have known that eventually something would happen. There were two managers of the show, and they fought continuously. Finally, matters reached a head and the company closed. "A bit of luck occurred for me then. There came a wire from Dallas, Texas, inviting me to join its stock company. With scarcely the loss of a week's pay, then, I stepped from one job into another. The Columbus company had been good but the one in Dallas, it developed, was even superior. "Following another season, the manager skipped town with all the money. That left us somewhat in a hole, but the actors decided to continue on the co-operative plan. We lasted just three weeks, the last week making just $37.50 apiece. We were forced to close." Had the company not failed then, it is doubtful if Talbot would be on the screen today. A Hollywood manager's scout had seen him on the stage, and vainly had tried to persuade him to go to the film capital. Talbot, secure in his leading man position, had scoffed at the idea and forgotten the episode. "When the show closed its doors, the scout urged me again to try my luck in Hollywood," the actor goes on. "He went even further this time — he offered me transportation. He said both he and the manager were that certain I would click. His belief in me, just as things were looking down, gave me a fresh lease on life. So I caught the train to Hollywood. "The manager who had paid my expenses from Dallas met me at the train — and I couldn't say a word to him above a whisper ! Coming west I had developed a severe case of laryngitis. He didn't seem particularly disturbed, though, and announced cheerfullv that he had arranged for me to make a test the following morning at the Warner Bros, studio. "The next day, as luck would have it,