But Luck, besides acting upon strong convictions and then paying the price without whimpering, never let an impulse grow stale from want of use.

He reached for the fat telephone directory and searched out the numbers of those motion-picture companies which he did not remember readily.

Then, beginning at the first number on his hastily compiled list, he woke five different managers out of their precious eight-o'clock sleep to answer his questions.
Whatever they may have thought of Luck Lindsay just then, they replied politely, and did not tell him offhand that there was no possible opening for him in their companies.

Three of them made appointments with him at their offices.

One promised to call him up just as soon as he "had a line on anything." One said that, with the rainy weather coming on, they were cutting down to straight studio stuff, but that he would keep Luck in mind if anything turned up.
Then I suppose the whole five called him names behind his back, figuratively speaking, for being such an early riser on such a day.