Finding Myself in Hoboken: Retirement Plan: Read Some Books

... the actors' union, and I did that. I launched the venture with some money I got from a real estate saleâ€"planning a big party at Grand Hotel, with a dance band and scenes from plays we might be doing in our first season. ... I was transfixed by The Age of Innocence, and the “Old New York” stories. The only one I didn't read was Ethan Frome, the one required high school book that is outside the main drift of Wharton anyway. I still may get to it. I do know the story; ...