Showman (1937)

Page scan 00051 from Showman

Record Details:

Title:
Showman
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Volume:
Showman
Leaf #:
00051
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:
August 15, 2024
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Chapter II SOMETIMES THE ACTOR OF THE EIGHTIES WORE HIS DIA mond in his shirt-front. Other times the diamond went into temporary retirement at Uncle's and the only reason he retained the shirt-front was that he had to have something to cover a thoroughly empty stomach. One of my advantages in my new profession lay in the fact that I had been broken in to occasional short rations ever since I could remember clearly. For, if you couldn't starve well on occasion, you didn't belong in the oldtime theater. But even somebody with my long experience never learned to like it. The first actors' strike I ever heard of in which the strikers stuck together and won their point came about because we members of a theatrical company in San Francisco couldn't stand the spectacle of our manager eating hearty when all we ever got was an occasional quarter to buy some beans with. The company was stony-broke. The manager hadn't seen any money for weeks either, but his credit was still good at an excellent French chophouse on Bush Street. Every day they reserved him a table for dinner right in the window— he had the characteristic theatrical fond 43