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possibly he would know how to work on the throat.

BOB: When did you give up the theatre part of your career?

B: You see I wasn't really stage struck like most children. It was the only way I could think of to go out and earn a living. I was so over protected, I had no idea how one could earn a living. I left home with fifteen dollars. It never occurred to me that one had to have money. I was thinking everybody had ten thousand. It never occurred to me.

Then I arrived in Canada into this cheap boarding house in a cheap room. And there was chromos on the wall. You see I'd been in this wonderful atmosphere at the Arensberg's, Brancusi, Duchamp. Now in this cheap room, dirty, with chromos of the king and queen of England. A dirty table cloth, an iron bed. And I got into bed. And before I knew it I was scratching and without every having heard about them, I knew immediately that there were bedbugs. How I knew, I don't know. I jumped out of the bed, and the bed was covered with bed bugs. I got to the table and wept. And then I said, "I've asked for this. I want to know what life is about, so bear it."

And with my fifteen dollars, I paid seven dollars in advance for the room. I walked out, went to the hotel and said, "I'm with the French National Theatre. We will open in two weeks and then I will have money. I cannot pay now, will