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Owen Davis. I'd Like to Do It Again
I'd Like to Do It Again
Table of Contents
──────────────── CONTENTS ────────────────
──────────────── LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER I ◆ FALSE STARTS ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER II ◆ SELLING THE FIRST ONE ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER III ◆ THEN AND NOW ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER IV ◆ “HOLD, VILLAIN” ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER V ◆ UP FROM MELODRAMA ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER VI ◆ HOW TO WRITE THREE HUNDRED PLAYS ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER VII ◆ THE DRAMATIST’S PROFESSION ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER VIII ◆ HOLLYWOOD ────────────────
──────────────── CHAPTER IX ◆ I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN ────────────────
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Owen Davis
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I played with this company for its run in New York and continued with it for a long road season. The road in those days took in all of the principal towns of the country and, as Janauschek was an established favorite, we did a good business everywhere. My twelve dollars a week that probably wouldn’t pay for a room to-day was with a little stretching enough for a decent living, although by the end of each week I was driven to borrowing the morning papers for the want of the two cents necessary to purchase them.
At that time one could live for a week at the second best hotel in any city for ten dollars and a half, room, bath and food. Ten dollars and a half, however, was far beyond me and I usually found possible enough accommodations for about eight dollars. The company made many night journeys, but, as I remember it, the expense of sleeping-car berths never worried me. I solved that problem by turning up the collar of my coat, resting my head on my shabby old suit case and stretching myself out on two seats of a smoking car. I had seen little of the country at that time and each new town we came to was a fresh adventure. I loved the life and from the first I never had a doubt but what it was to be mine for the rest of my life. I was sincere in my ambition to become a playwright and at the close of the season I struck out boldly toward that goal. The fact that I was inclined to decide upon play writing rather than acting may have been partly influenced by a parting scene I had with Madame Janauschek the last day of our season.
