Because of the money. That's why. Money first. Work every week. Two jobs. Work the Cotton Club and play in the theater in daytime. Play the Paramount, the Grand, and the Lowes. You play them theaters in Brooklyn. You can play about six weeks around New York The Bronx has a couple of theaters. Brooklyn. Yonkers. Queens. All them theaters. People, loaded with people. Theaters. You play that. Cab Calloway was doing all that. He had a band. He had Albert Socarras's band, a great Cuban flute player. He had eight-piece band that played, open a show . . . open a club and 10 o'clock, and they played 'til 11 o'clock. Intermission in between. 11 o'clock. They played 'til 12. They put on a little light show. Cab Calloway, wherever he was, arrived at this with a police escort. They brought him to Harlem to the Cotton Club. Closed that show where he played in the theater and go right on stage. Valet have a new suit of clothes for him. He showered real quick. Get hisself together. Go out and do his show. He do them two shows. Then he go home and go to sleep. Or go in a hotel, if he were living . . . He didn't . . . He wasn't living in Yonkers then. That's [? (inaudible)] suburb. That's like Jefferson Parish. He would go in and be ready to hit that stage in a theater the next day at 12 o'clock. Cab Calloway was doubling all the time. Making this fantastic money, of that time. When you look at it now, that ain't nothing. It's peanuts. But if he'd have saved his money, he'd have been wealthy. But he got hooked with race horses. All them, through them years, he played the horses. So you go through that [expletive deleted]. So I'm there. I'm playing with all these different bands. I met so many people. Danny Logan. I played with his band for about six months. Went to Baltimore and played a new club some black people opened. Hell of a club. The people didn't know too much about show business. They had the place loaded with booze. Big trucks loaded with booze used to come in. They didn't sell that kind of booze, but the band drank up all the booze. You had the bands right in front of the bandstand. Everybody had him a quart. The bartenders didn't say nothing. They just ripped the people off. Club closed. Different bands. Dave Nelson had a band. That was King Oliver's nephew. I went on Broadway in 1931 with Dave Nelson. I played Mae West's show. That's big time. I didn't know what Broadway is. I'd heard of it, but I didn't know the significance of it until I played Mae West's show. The stagehands begin to talk about the show. You stand around them and you listen. They tell you. They talk about who's show is great, who's show is a success. It's a Gershwin show. It's a [?Shields] show or [A(braham) L(incoln)] Erlanger show. These people put on shows every year.