U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [393]
(So you brought home French books didjer?)
is my uncle
NEWSREEL XLVII
boy seeking future offered opportunity . . . good posi-tions for bright . . . CHANCE FOR
ADVANCEMENT . . . boy to learn . . . errand boy office boy
YOUNG MAN WANTED
Oh tell me how long
I'll have to wait
OPPORTUNITY
in bank that chooses its officers from the ranks, for wide-awake ambitious bookkeeper .
. . architectural draftsman with experience on factory and industrial buildings in brick, timber, and reinforced concrete . . . bronze fitter . . . let-terer . . . patternmaker . . . carriage painter . . . first class striper and finisher . . . young man for hosiery, underwear and notion house . . . assistant in order department . . . first class penman accurate at figures . . . energetic hard-worker for setting dies in power presses for metal parts canvasser . . . flavor chemist . . . freight elevator man
. . . house salesman . . . insurance man . . . insurance
-28-man . . . invoice clerk . . . jeweler . . . laborer . . . ma-chinist . . . mil ing machine man .
. . shipping clerk . . . shipping clerk . . . shipping clerk . . . shoe salesman . . . signwriter . .
. solicitor for retail fishmarket . . . teacher
. . . timekeeper . . . tool and diemaker, tracer, toolroom foreman, translator, typist . . . window trimmer . . . wrap-per
OPPORTUNITY FOR
Do I get it now
Or must I hesitate
young man not afraid of hard work
young man for office
young man for stockroom
young man as stenographer
young man to travel
young man to learn
OPPORTUNITY
Oh tell me how long
to superintend municipal light, water and ice plant in beautiful growing, healthful town in Florida's highlands . . . to take charge of underwear department in large wholesale mail house . . . to assist in railroad investigation . . . to take charge of about twenty men on tools, dies, gigs and gauges
. . . as bookkeeper in stockroom . . . for light porter work
. . . civil engineer . . . machinery and die appraiser . . . building estimator . . . electrical and power plant engineer THE CAMERA EYE (44)
the unnamed arrival
(who had hung from the pommel of the unshod
white stal ion's saddle
a ful knapsack
-29-and leaving the embers dying in the hol ow of the barren Syrian hil s where the Agail had camped when dawn sharpshining cracked night off the ridged desert had ridden towards the dungy vil ages and the patches of ses-ame and the apricotgardens) shaved off his beard in Damascus
and sat drinking hot milk and coffee in front of the hotel in Beirut staring at the white hulk of Lebanon fumbling with letters piled on the table and clipped streamers of newsprint addressed not to the unspeaker of arabic or the clumsy scramblerup on camelback so sore in the rump from riding but to someone
who
(but this evening in the soft nightclimate of the
Levantine coast the kind officials are contemplating further improvements scarcelybathed he finds himself cast for a role pro-vided with a white tie careful y tied by the viceconsul. stuffed into a boiled shirt a tailcoat too smal a pair of dresstrousers too large which the kind wife of the kind offi-cial gigglingly fastens in the back with safetypins which immediately burst open when he bows to the High Com-missioner's lady faulty costuming makes the role of eminent explorer impossible to play and the patent leather pumps painful y squeezing the toes got lost under the table during the champagne and speeches)
-30-who arriving in Manhattan finds waiting again the forsomebodyelsetailored dress suit the position offered the opportunity presented the col-larbutton digging into the adamsapple while a wooden image croaks down a table at two rows of freshlypressed gentlemen who wear fashionably their tailored names stuffed into shirts to caption miles lightyears of
clipped streamers of newsprint
Gentlemen I apologize it was the wrong bel it was
due to a