Showman (1937)

Page scan 000157 from Showman

Record Details:

Title:
Showman
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Volume:
Showman
Leaf #:
000157
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
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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Chapter V WHEN CORBETT AND I RETURNED TO AMERICA AFTER OUR European junket, the goose was hanging higher still. As I've already indicated with grim details to match, the junket itself was a financial flop. But the American public, whom we had plied with long and judiciously spaced cables about playing the Folies Bergere in Paris and having the horses taken out of Corbett's carriage in Dublin, didn't know the grim details. As Corbett's manager, I struck New York as a conquering hero, besieged by reporters at Quarantine and all the rest of it. Corbett's new play, "A Naval Cadet," a better job than "Gentleman Jack," written by the same man, immediately started the money rolling in again just where it had left off, and Corbett was doing even better as an actor because I'd hired McKee Rankin, a magnificent director, as well as a fine actor, to play the villain in the piece and coach Jim up to a really professional standard. Between "A Naval Cadet" and the old family warhorse, "After Dark," which I was still playing for all it was worth, I was raking in two or three thousand dol 147