This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
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?