earning about this or that, can be veryengaging to some, but not to me. I would rather whistle Faust or look at a Rico. Isuppose that the usher job that I had at Carnegie Hall helped keep me alivethrough those days. Being around the energy that comes from the music can havethat effect.The day I left school was at first very difficult for me, since I also had to quit myusher job at the hall. My father decided that he had had enough of my insolencewhen I decided while at school one day that I had no time for theorems, as I hadmore important matters to deal with at the hall. He immediately took me out ofschool, made me quit the hall and put me to work for Denny and Carson. I workedthere for some time and became a trusted employee, even having the responsibilityof taking the week’s payroll given to me. One weekend, knowing that the ledgerwas to be taken in to be balanced with the payroll deposit drop-off, I asked forSaturday after off. Before I did my weekly task of dropping of the payroll deposithowever, took the nearly thousand dollars and wrote a new deposit slip. After that,I simply boarded the night train to New York. I had imagined entry into New Yorka thousand times, to be in that kind of atmosphere. There were so many morebeautiful things to see and do and feel here. “How astonishingly easy it had been.”First, I bought a new suit and put it on, leaving my newly purchased frock coatand dress clothes in the cab. Then I went to a hatter’s and a shoe house, followedby Tiffany’s where I bought a silver and a new scarf pin. Then I bought travelingbags to properly store all of it. From there it was on to the Waldorf, paying inadvance for a sleeping room, a sitting room and a bath. Once in the sitting room,however, there was one detail I had dreamed of that wasn’t there, so I rang for thebellboy and had flowers brought up. After “such a strain,” I settled into a nice hotbath. ...
