There were volunteers who would go to that theater at, say, 9 o'clock in the morning and work upstairs on the third floor. They were so devoted that they would stay for the evening performance.

When the guild was first founded, it was more social in a way, although they did things on a big scale to make money. One thing they did: They wrote to movie stars and had on the stage an auction. Like a scarf from somebody and a shoe from somebody else.

One time I went to pet it, and it nipped at me.

And if I came early, I had to help him eat. He just always insisted that I have something.