Front and back flaps to “Come One, Come All!”
Don Freeman arrived on the sidewalks of New York with a trumpet under his arm, a artist’s sketch pad in his suitcase and an intense desire to find out if New York was really the place he had dreamed about. His hot trumpet took him from Little Italy and the Bowery to Tin Pan Alley and his pencil recorded everything he saw. Don Freeman is no Alger hero and his is not a rags to riches story.
COME ONE COME ALL! reveals the maturing of a young man but it is an illustrated profile of New York as well.
In these pages you will read about the Greats of the theater as seen through the eager eyes of a youngster, new to it all. You will experience the feeling of the city and the intense masses that make up its population. You will see Mr. Freeman’s drawings of backstage at the theater and of famous New Yorkers. You will come to know the equally important unknowns - the street peddler, a neighborhood laundryman who turned out to be Freeman’s severest art critic, and the man in the subway change booth.
Only a person with great perception and an equally great love for New York and everything in it could have written COME ONE COME ALL!
