Showman (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Showman
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Volume:
Showman
Leaf #:
000254
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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SHOWMAN of a twelve performances a day, eighteen-dollar a week imitations act at Huber's Museum and introduced him to the legitimate— which I did— I also have to reflect that, in all solemn idiocy, I told him he couldn't portray a Jewish character. The only thing I ever heard of to match that is the story about how Edwin Booth's famous father told him that he had the makings of a brilliant banjo-player, but he'd never get anywhere as an actor. I've been eating my words to Warfield ever since, through his days with Weber and Fields and on with "The Music Master"—and by no means least when he put on his brilliant performance of Shylock some ten or twelve years ago. That's the way it goes. Now you see it and now you don't. It's the old army game and an infant in arms can play it as well as a man. 238