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...Broadway. "It scared me," Lahr remembers. "All those years I'd been hiding behind the putty nose and the baggy pants. Now they wanted me to play without them. I didn't think I could do it. But I had to try. Opening night I peeked out through the curtain, and it looked like the Diamond Horseshoe. Jimmy Walker was there. Everybody in New York was there. Jewels. Big names. After the curtain went up I heard the laughs, but when it was over I went out and wandered around in the dark, and I didn...
...next day gritty, garish, gold-lined Broadway was Bert Lahr's street. Lahr was a smash. Lahr was a sensation. NEW COMEDY KING CROWNED, read a Journal headline. Hold Everything ran for 413 performances. Suddenly the headwaiters, the cabbies, the reporters, the speakeasy bartenders all knew Bert Lahr. He played the Palace three times in six months with his old cop act at $4,500 a week. One hit followed another: Flying High, Hot-Cha!, Life Begins at 8:40, George White's Scandals, The Show...
...Hollywood. This wonderful binge of laughs and coin could not last forever; the depression hit Broadway, too. Lahr's wife was suffering from a mental illness and after painful years their marriage was annulled. He was married again, to a softspoken, ash-blonde ex-showgirl named Mildred Schroeder. Meanwhile he had headed west to try Hollywood for size...
...backyard he heard a distant shouting. In a yard on the hill above him he saw an astounding sight: a cold-eyed little M-G-M talent scout who had ignored him for months was waving at him. "Gung Gung!" the apparition shouted. "How are you today, Gung Gung?" Lahr rose and walked to the house. "They've previewed the picture," he called through the door, "and I'm good." They...
...Lahr worked in radio. He played Harvey on the road. To the delight of his admirers, he did the part of Skid Johnson in a revival of the old hit, Burlesque. It ran longer than the original. He had always saved money; as an investor in stocks he also made some profits on the new bull market...