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6Early 20.

had great difficulty with money.  Fundamentally I am not interested in money.

BOB:
What happened with your parents when you joined the vaudeville?  It seems like your mother wanted you to be a star.

B:
My mother was crushed.  I wasn't living at home then, I had married my first terrible marriage.  It was very de classe' to get into vaudeville, but it was wonderful training and I was very interested in the stage hands and the manipulation - of the perfection with which it worked and of course it taught me to place my voice. I can go into any room and without thinking my voice is placed at the last wall.  

I wrote a short story every week because I was so lonely.  I wanted something to do.  One of them got published but of course I didn't keep it and I have no idea what happened to it.

I would make friends.  Monday I'd watch the whole thing and decide which of the acts interested me and then I'd cultivate the actors in that act and write a little story, made up about them.  So I had fun and I taught myself to type by sight.

BOB:
You also ended up doing stage managing yourself, didn't you?