Harry Goldweiser 35
‘There’s nobody else in New York could have got me to walk that far, I’ll tell you that … I walked too much in the old days, do you understand, used to sell papers when I was a kid and run errands for Schwartz’s Toystore … on my feet all day except when I was in nightschool. I thought I was going to be a lawyer, all us East Side fellas thought we were goin to be lawyers. Then I worked as an usher one summer at the Irving Place and got the theatre bug … Not sure a bad hunch it turned out to be, but it’s too uncertain. Now I dont care any more, only want to cover my losses. That’s the trouble with me. I’m thirtyfive an I dont care any more. Ten years ago I was still only a kind of clerk in old man Erlanger’s office, and now there’s lots of em whose shoes I used to shine in the old days’d be real glad of the opportunity to sweep my floors on West Forty-eighth … Tonight I can take you anywhere in New York, I dont care how expensive or how chic it is … an in the old days us kids used to think it was paradise if we had five plunks to take a couple of girls down to the Island … ’

