Here I was astonished to find a polite reception from the director.

It eventuated that they wished for a person appearing like myself a person whom they would outfit with clothes of quality in all parts, whose external presented a gentleman of the great world, not merely of one the galant-uomini, but who would impart an air to a table at a cafe' where he might sit and partake.

The contrast of this with the emplacement of the establishment on his bald head-top was to be the success of the idea.

It was plain that I had no baldness, my hair being very thick and I but twenty-four years of age, when it was explained that my hair could be shaved.

They asked me to accept, alas! not a part in the Revue, but a specialty as a sandwich-man.