Keep That Day Job! How to Enjoy Chasing Showbiz Without Going Mad

<p>From the fifty (yes fifty) jobs he held down to keep the paychecks coming author and playwright David H. Lewis takes you on his wild ride back and forth between...</p><p><br></p><p> • Cleaning out rental cars in Oakland and dining high on Park Avenue a few days later with New York literary agent Bertha Klausner and Clare Booth Luce.</p><p><br></p><p> • Walking a rail yard by night recording box car numbers and the next meeting with French mime Marcel Marceau to discuss a Mother Goose screenplay.</p><p> </p><p>• Typing out letters for a chemical company in Hollywood and being handed by the office manager a rave review in <em>Variety</em> of his new musical <em>Those Ringlings.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Sure to strike a familiar chord with aspiring dreamers in the performing arts it should prove especially useful to talented young readers taking their own first steps into the nine-to-five of life. Lewis pulls no punches in recounting his colorful hit-and-miss involvements in theater.</p><p><br></p><p>From prune picking in Santa Rosa to circus clowning press agent to roller skating instructor to accidental librarian for Oakland's largest law firm <strong><em>Keep That Day Job!</em></strong> rolls on like a three-ring circus juggling day jobs with showbiz adventures on the side.</p><p><br></p>