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SHOWMAN
the old warrior sparring with big gloves, the new champion's prestige plus the old champion's popularity made $20,000 profit to hand over to John L. A real champion is always even more popular in defeat— they flocked to the station to cheer Sullivan too, almost as many of them as cheered us.
All this made our approaching theatrical adventure with "Gentleman Jack" a perfect set-up. Everywhere we took it, you couldn't have squeezed in another paying customer with a shoe-horn. I won't say the crowds were mostly women, but it seemed that way at the time. The female of the species raised more sand over Jim Corbett than I ever saw raised over any matinee-idol in the business. They got in our hair, they clogged our mail, they made themselves the worst nuisances possible— and we took it and liked it, because it meant good business. Not that there weren't disadvantages. One irate gentleman, finding that the lady of his affections had a picture of Corbett on her dressingtable, took a shot at him. In another town it cost us thousands to choke off an alienation of affections suit, and we always had to live besieged by hordes of frantic lady admirers. But we were cashing in too, and don't forget it.
We may have missed a trick somewhere, but I don't see how. We didn't invent the testimonial racket, which has been so popular in modern times, but I think we were the first ever to exploit it clean to the hilt— with immense profits. I remember coming into Corbett's
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