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SHOWMAN
opinion that, of all the cheering crowds he ever met, this spontaneous mob was the one that pleased him most— because that sort of thing was then absolutely new to him.
In due time, besides, I was finding myself the father of a brilliant young actress. Alice Brady, my daughter, came out of a New Jersey convent having convinced the sisters that her singing voice demanded professional cultivation. When she was sent to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, the teachers there were even more enthusiastic. They said, in fact, that Alice had a fine chance of becoming a grand-opera star, if she'd work hard, by the time she was twentyeight or so. She had no objection to being a grandopera star, but twenty-eight always sounds like a million years away to a girl in her teens. So the first I knew she was all set to quit the conservatory and join up as a chorus-singer in Colonel Henry W. Savage's small-time comic opera company at Castle Square in Boston. I hit the ceiling at that project. She hit the ceiling immediately after I did. We had it hammer and tongs for a while— and the only way I finally squelched her scheme was by reminding her that she was under age and there was nothing to prevent me from shipping her off to a convent near the North Pole. That was no mere rhetoric. I knew of a fine convent way up north of Ottawa where an aunt of mine had been Sister Superior.
But Alice had her share of the family stubbornness
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