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Dance on the High Wire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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I SUPPOSE I CAN CLAI~WITH LORD BYRON THAT I AWOKE<br >one morning to find myself famous. I had gone to bed at<br >seven thirty of a cool September evening in 1926, exactly one<br >hour before the curtain was to rise on the opening night s<br >performance of Broadway. My telephone rang shortly after<br >eleven o clock, and I heard my press agent, S. N. Behrman,<br >report that the play was a colossal success.<br > "The house lights have been up for almost a minute," he<br >said, "and they re still applauding the show. I ve never seen<br >anything like it."<br > "Where are you talking from?"<br > "I m in the box office. Can t you hear them?"<br > "Yes, I think so."<br > "It s come off exactly as you predicted. Well, Jed, you are<br >going to be enormously rich. You will have a splendid country<br >house and entertain the great of the world."<br > "The great of this world are all in the next world, Sam," I<br >said. "Right now I m still famished for sleep."<br > "Better take your receiver off the hook, or you won t get<br > any sleep at all. Good-night."<br > My absence from the Broadhurst Theatre on that reputedly<br > momentous occasion would soon provide the first frail under-<br > pinnings to my "legendary" reputation. In a matter of hours a<br > Broadway columnist would call me to confirm the rumor that<br > I had spent the evening at home asleep "With so much at<br > stake, how could you possibly have done a thing like that?" he<br > said. "It was really quite simple," I replied. "I took off my<br > clothes, got into bed, and closed my eyes." He subsequently<br > described me as enigmatic.<br ><br >
Dance on the High Wire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书