Volume 18, Number 8 · May 4, 1972
Scenes from Show Biz
By Virgil Thomson
Run-Through: A Memoir
by John Houseman
Simon & Schuster, 507 pp., $9.95
John Houseman (né Jacques Haussmann of Anglo-French parentage) was born, 1902, into a world of international speculation (chiefly wheat futures), brought up in its life style of palace-hotels, chic spas, plushy motor cars, and Swiss scenery, trained to its practice in Buenos Aires and London, glorified by success as an operator moving through Kansas City, Detroit, and Seattle and then bankrupted in New York in 1929, this also quite successfully, since the sum of his liabilities was for that year modest, a meager $300,000.
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