Two weeks after it closed, he started rehearsals for Cheer Up, a new play by Mary Roberts Rinehart booked into the Harris Theatre. It was to open cold without any out-of-town tryout under the direction of a young Cecil B. DeMille […]

Because they believe, if any man be fearful and faint-hearted of nature, he will not only do no manful and hardy act himself, but also be occasion of cowardness to his fellows.

Russ wasn't fighting that actual second but you could tell he had been by the way the other customers were stood about the room in ragged bunches like misherded sheep.

His parents got him an in with the company.