Harvest of My Years: An Autobiography

by Channing Pollock

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Text extracted from opening pages of book: HARVEST OF MY YEARS c/\ w By CHANNING POLLOCK Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years, ., OVID THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK 5Kow SfexOut HERB ROTH'S CARTOON of me at the time I was barred from the theaters of the Messrs. Shubcrt. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 1 WE Text extracted from opening pages of book: HARVEST OF MY YEARS c/\ w By CHANNING POLLOCK Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years, ., OVID THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK 5Kow SfexOut HERB ROTH'S CARTOON of me at the time I was barred from the theaters of the Messrs. Shubcrt. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 1 WE BEGIN WITH A WAR 13 2 LIFE WITH FATHER 27 3 PEGASUS WITH PINFEATHERS 45 4 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 57 5 I LEARN A TRADE 69 6 THE GLORY THAT WAS GREASE PAINT '. 85 7 You NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK 101 8 LOVE AND A LIE OR Two 118 9 HAPPY DATS 131 10 I MARRY AND GIVE UP MY JOB 146 11 ROULETTE 161 12 THE PARSONAGE 174 13 OF CABBAGES AND BASIL KING 188 14 RENNOLDWOLF 201 15 FOOLING WITH THE FOLLIES 213 16 AUTHORS IN BLUNDERLAND 226 17 SEVERAL STORIES AND Two PL AYS 238 18 WARS OF ALL SIZES 250 19 I FALL IN LOVE AGAIN 263 20 ONE MORE FALSE STEP 274 21 THEY CALLED ME IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE .... 287 22 I SEEMY FINISH 300 23 BORN WITH A TRADE 314 24 THE SERIOUS YEARS 326 25 WEGoPtACRS 337 26 SPAREPARTS 351 27 THREE SCORE AND So WHAT? 367 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Herb Roth's Cartoon of the Author Frontispiece FACING PAGE My Father and Mother 28 The Author in two stages of his development 29 A Teacher's Report . . . . 4 34 Our Home in Salt Lake City 35 My First Play 40 The Cast of The Noble Outcast 41 Earnestly Channing Pollock 76 Senator William N. Roach 77 Editorial Praise 100-101 Interior Decoration in the Ws .116 Press Agent for the Shuberts 117 Approbation from Sir Hubert 142-143 My Wife in 1906 152 Left: Mrs. Pollock at an early age. Right: My Grandmother . 153 Another Horseless Carriage 184 My Second Motor Car 185 Rennold Wolf 210Avery Hopwood 211 The Perfect Lady in harbor at Port Jeff erson 248 The first time I ever had two plays on the same street ... 249 Saint Channing 282 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The Sign on the Door in Paris 283 To the Author of My Being 310 Parsifal, the rabbit, in the arms of my daughter . . * . . 311 The Author in the Orient 342 A Cartoon of the Author by James Montgomery Flagg . . 343 Three Score and So What 1' 368 The Author takes his ease at Shoreham 369 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE LIKENESS of the author on the jacket of this book is from a pastel portrait made in one sitting by Leonebel Jacobs. The cartoons reproduced inside the covers are by Freuh, Massaguer, Hans Stengel, C. de Fornaro, Boardman Robinson, Ryan Walker and Herb Roth. That by Herb Roth, who illustrated all my articles in The Green Book Magazine, was drawn with a pipe-cleaner dipped in ink. Most of these cartoons were published in various newspapers, arid that by Boardman Robinson is from an old issue of The New York Morning Telegraph. Regrettably, three of the cartoons are by artists who can not be identified. The others were or are well known in America, and Massaguer, is a Cuban of international repu tation, THE AUTHOR January 8, 1943. HARVEST OF MY YEARS ...more

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Published 1943 by Bobbs-Merrill

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