Showman (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Showman
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Volume:
Showman
Leaf #:
00015
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Chapter 1 LAST YEAR I DID SOME BROADCASTING ABOUT MY DIM AND spotty past, just spinning yarns about this and that back when the nineteenth century was still a going concern. Some youngsters who listened in took the trouble to write letters about it. They sounded discouraged. I'd been lucky, was the burden of their song. There wasn't a chance of doings like those in the modern world. Things seemed to happen earlier and oftener back then. That set me thinking. Maybe this is a more cut-anddried world than the one I was raised in. I can't imagine the course of sprouts I went through developing against a twentieth-century background. Details like the fact that I was managing Jim Jeffries in a championship heavyweight fight at Coney Island one Monday evening forty years back and the next evening opened "King Lear" at the Garden Theater in New York starring Robert Mantell, or that among my first flight discoveries during fifty years' search for what the public wanted were Katherine Cornell and James J. Corbett. Those things couldn't happen now. You couldn't hook 9