Where am I going with this story?????. I was inducted into the army in 44 and when I returned from the Pacific Theatre in 47, I returned to my parents home in Dayton Ohio. I tried college but was bored. I had a taste of camera work filming the Philippine invasion and the Battle of Manila and camera work became my life. Still where does stamps come in you might ask.

I had a close buddy when we were filming in the Philippines and we were part of a camera crew doing documentaries for the army and for the war crimes committee in the Pacific after the war. After the war, he returned to the cinematrography dept at Republic Studios. Republic was just starting to producing “A” films and he called me and said I could have a position in the newly form cinematrography department. I had a little money but I had my big stamp collection which has some very good and semi important stamps in the album. I was able to sell my collection for a nice piece of change to a local stamp merchant in Dayton. I had money for the train, one month rent in Studio City and I was on my way first at Republic and later at Warners and about three years in between at Paramount. So stamps starts my way in lalaland.

Sorry about the long story but that play brought back a lot of memories. Oh one more thing Arwen Anderson who played the bitchy sister told me last night that one of those upside down stamps went for $100,000 at an auction here in San Francisco last month. Also Arwen told me last night that someone in the audience called her a “bitch” toward the end of the performance. Warren David Keith also told me last night that the cast has been getting remarks from the younger members of the audiences during the previews. Nothing like live theatre.