The First King of Hollywood by Tracey Goessel

Author:Tracey Goessel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2015-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Conversation and laughter ceased suddenly. We were all terribly distressed, especially Douglas, who paced the room in torment. Meanwhile the press, still waiting, had to be seen and no newspaper man, even with the best heart and intentions, could be asked to smother, or even tone down, a story of Robin Hood shooting a furrier with a longbow half a block from Fifth Avenue. That couldn’t be expected. . . .

It was three in the morning before Cap [O’Brien] managed to get the furrier or one of his family on the telephone and arrange a meeting for the next day. Happily it turned out that the man was not seriously hurt physically, so satisfactory arrangements were made to soothe his outraged feelings, and quite properly outraged it seemed to me—for you can’t expect a man to be pleased at having an arrow stuck in his ribs while he is sewing up a mink.

As a matter of history, later on when the man learned who it was that had pinked him, and when he had lunch with Douglas and two choice seats for the opening, he seemed quite pleased about the whole thing.

Well, everybody was much relieved when Cap signaled all clear the following afternoon. But the hours between midnight and the receipt of Cap’s message (we stayed up all night) were hours of distress filled with misery.

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