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crash into the movies". So the wonderful idea is still imprisoned within my brain waiting until some person is willing to listen.
Let me record one more incident. Just before I was preparing to leave the City of Dreadful Blight (Money and Sunshine) some one in New York sent me a long, personal letter of introduction to one of the biggest executives in the ^letroGoldwyn firm. At last, I thought, I shall surely get in. But not more than bis secretary's face did I see. I even went to his private house where I was practically pushed out oi the house by his wife. This ended m}^ attempt to get into the movies.
Owing to the fact that I was practically penniless most of the time my troubles were more complicated than the above bare chronicle can reveal. If I had arrived with resources enough to last out about one year, or if I bad been able to get some outside position while I was attacking the central gates of the great movie studios I might have managed by about January 1929 to get a job in one of those many rooms adapting comedies for Mr. Reginald Dennj^
Although my limited financial condition kept me from wide social intercourse I met two other young men in my position. The one was a Pole, the other a Russian Jew. Their problem was not how to become a writer for the movies, but how to become producers. Both of them had been in Los iVngeles a long time without anj^ real success. The}^ vvere just waiting for something to turn up. Los Angeles is too full of dull people to make it a pleasant waiting room.
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