Showman (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Showman
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Volume:
Showman
Leaf #:
000223
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 VI THE NEARER THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THE MORE ODD things I found myself turning my hand to. In a general view prizefighting and the theater have been the strongest flavors in my troubled existence. But, when I was temporarily out of the boxing-game, my natural combination of restlessness and lack of discretion made me stick my finger into all kinds of pies, both in sport and out of it. After all, it was just showmanship in one form or another. It's impossible to draw a hard and fast line between the theater and the arena. The fundamentals of getting people to pay money to see something happen are the same in any field. In wrestling, for instance. My career in the gruntand-struggle racket wasn't very lengthy. But it packed a great deal of action into a small period of time because the focus of my wrestling activities was that incredible creature, Yousouf, the Terrible Turk. He was a standing guarantee of trouble and low humor. First and last he must have been responsible for as many riot-calls as the Communist Party. Leave him by himself and he was reasonably inoffensive. Put him in front 209