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...mother took me to the movies a lot, though; then the next day I'd act out the roles--that's how I'd live." Acting became, as he puts it, his "source of survival," ultimately rescuing him from the days when he was everything from a theater usher who impishly led a line of people to wait in front of Bloomingdale's (he was promptly fired) to a building superintendent with an eight-by-ten glossy of himself taped to his door and labelled "Super." Finally, he says, "I couldn't take it anymore. One day I was passing...
...Chute de la Malson d'Usher (1927) and The Golem (1924). Kirkland House Dining Hall, 8 and 10 April...
...acting talent, his grades were lackluster. After leaving school at 17, he began what he calls "the lost years, moving from job to job, furnished room to furnished room, always broke." He had started drinking at 13. Now he was drinking more. He lost a job as a movie usher after he prankishly led a line of ticket holders across the street to stand aimlessly in front of a department store. Finally, as superintendent of an apartment building, he "hustled garbage cans" and lived in a basement room. Taped to his door with Band-Aids...
...usher--a tired old lady who'd be and OAP herself in a few years--came over only to be shouted...
...volunteers would maintain their house affiliations and possibly help to "'usher' some of the freshmen into the house system," von Stade said...