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IF I didn't tell you.
YOU WOULDN'T know it.
AND I want you to know it.
AND WHAT it is." *
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I WANT you to know.
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IS THAT when you're a neighbor. IN HOLLYWOOD. '
YOU'RE REALLY a neighbor.
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AND TIMES may come.
AND YOU'LL go'away.
NO MATTER where.
NO MATTER for what.
AND YOU'LL come back home.
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AND JUST for instance. THERE'S BERTLytell. AND HE'D been gone. FOR A couple of years.
AND THEN word'came.
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HE WAS coming home.
TO PLAY in a piece!
FOR JERRY Duffy. *
AND THEY let 'Bert's neighbors.
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HAVE THE choice of seats.
AND LO and behold.'
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IF IT didn't turn out.
THERE WAS nobody there.
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ON THE opening night. BUT JUST Bert's neighbors. A THEATER crow'ded. WITH BERT'S old' friends. ALL COME to say. " HOW GLAD they'w'ere. HE WAS home again. AND THAT is the'sjjirit. . OF HOLLYWOOD." AND OFTENTIMES. IT'S AN elfish thing". AND playing" p'ranks. AND THEN again. " IT JUST runs 'round. AND ENJOYS itse'lf!
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AND THEN sometimes. YOU'LL FIND It 'sitting. IN SYMPATHY. ' ' WHERE THERE is grief. BUT ANYWAY* ' IT'S ALWAYS there. THIS NEIGHBORLY spirit. OF HOLLYW'OOD. AND ONE of 'the "joys. OF KNOWING k.' IS THAT always* * IT'S SO very glad. WHEN SOME o*ld" timer. COMES TROUPING back. WHETHER IT i*s. " THAT HE'S been gone. FROM OUT i"ts*m"idst. OR BEEN forgotten. FOR A little while. BUT ANYWAY* " THAT'S ENOUGH of that. AND SOMEBODY tells me. MY FRIEND 'Uon'Chaney.
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HAS BEEN to a surgeon. AND HAD hims*el"f cut. A PIECE of thro'at". AND IT won't surprise me. IF WHEN he is through. WE'LL FIND 'that Lon. HAS EQUIPPED himself. THE SAME for *so'und. AS FOR silent pictures. AND IF somebody wants. A CALLIOPE.' OR A mocking-bird. OR BAYING 'ho*unds. OR WHATEVER it is. WHY, THERE'LL be Lon. RIGHT ON th'e'lo't. AND WHY go farther? AND BILL Hart* too.
HE'S BEEN to the doctor.
AND HIS two old tonsils.
HAVE BEEN "ta*ke'n out.
THE SAME oid*to*nsils.
HE'S BEEN dragging around.
OVER THE prafries.
AND SAGE-brush" hills.
FOR YEARS an'd years.
AND IT looks to me.
LIKE THESE 'old timers.
HAVE FIGURED 'it out.
THAT LIFTING t'heir voices.
IS GOING to "he'p.
AND INCIDE'nTALLY.
I'M HERE to tell "you.
THE HOLLYWOOD doctors.
WHO KNOW'thei'r throats. • • •
ARE DOING more business. PUTTING THExM'back. WHERE THEY*us'ed to be. FOR ONCE in" a* while. A SHOT of raw hootch. PLAYED HOB wi"th them. THAN THEY'ever did. WITH THE fa'll'ng faces. IN THE silent days. THE GOOD o'ld'd'ays. WHEN IT did'n't matter. IF YOU had a* throat. OR A solid neck. BUT THAT'S "no matter. AND AT this writing. WE ARE all o'f us'well. IN HOLLYWOOD. LIVING IN p^ace.' EACH WITH 'the other. AND JUST to "prove it. THERE'S JIM'fuHy. PLAYING A part.' WITH JACK Gilbert. I THANK you'.