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My Neighbors in Wo^^^" '''''' K.C.B.
THERE ARE those who like it. AND THOSE who* don't. AND ONE who doesn't. IS RONALD Colman.
AND WHAT I mein*
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IS HE doesn't like crowds. HE LIKES Bill Powell. AND ERNEST Torrance. AND DAVID Torr'ance.
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AND ONE or two others. AND A while ago. WHEN HE disappeared. NOBODY KNEW.' ' WHERE HE had gone. OR WHEN he had* gone. OR ANYTHING. * * EXCEPTING BILL. *
AND ERNEST and Dave.
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AND ONE or two others.
AND WHEN one works.
IN SUCCEEDING'pictures.
AS REGULARLY* *
AS RONNIE does * *
IT'S A matter of moment.
WHEN ONE disap*p^ars.
WITHOUT A band. '
AND A crowd of workers.
FROM THE studio. *
TO SAY good-bye.* *
AT THE Santa Fe.' '
AND ANYWAY.
RONNIE DISAPPEARED.
AND A little while later.
ERNEST TORRANCE.
GOT UP and left. * "
AND THEN Bill Powell.
HE PACKED his ba^s.
AND A little later'
THERE CAME a day.
AND SOMEWHERE in London.
AND BACK at home. THE TWO of them. * WHO ARE Englishr^en. ANT) ONE of them. " OF THE Torrance clan. WHO IS Scot. SAT DOWN and planned. AND WENT away' * TO THE Continent. AND AT this writing. THEY ARE still' there. TRAMPING ABOUT. FROM PLACE to *plkce. AND WHY it is! IT INTERESTS me* * IS THAT it's a dream. THAT HAS come true.
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AND THAT couldn't have been. EXCEPT THAT'it*came. FROM HOLLYWOOD.
FOR HERE It w'as* "
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THAT THE dream was dreamed.
BACK IN the days* '
OF LEANER picking.
FOR THE three of*them.
DAYS OF waiting*
AND WONDERING.
AND A stretch of work.
AND A longer stretch.
OF IDLENESS.
BUT EVEN then.
THEY WERE good days.
FOR IT isn't far!
FROM HOLLYWOOD.
TO MOUNTAIN trails.
AND MOUNTAIN camps.
AND RONNIE and Bill.
OR RONNIE and Ernest.
OR THE three of t*hem.
WOULD DISAPPE'aR.
AND NO one would know.
WHERE THEY ha*d gone.
BUT UP in the hills."
THREE UNSHaXtN men.
WOULD BE hiking about.
FROM PLACE to *place.
SLEEPING HERE* '
AND SLEEPING there.
CONTENT AND happy.
IN COMPANIONSHIP.
WITH KINDRED *soiils.
AND THE great outdoors.
AND THERE itVasi
WHEN NIGHT 'would come.
THEY'D SIT and tal'k.
OF WHAT they''d*do.
IF THEY had a in'lh'on.
TO DO it with. "
AND MAYBE it* is. '
THAT NONE of the'm.
HAS THE million yet.
BUT NEVERTHELESS.
THEY HA\'E enough.
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AND THE dream they had. HAS COME to pass. AND I'M wondering. IF WHEN It happens. THEY COME back a'gain. TO HOLLYWOOD. ' AND TO their work*. IF PERHAPS some*tiine. THEY WON'T s'it*down. AND MAKE admission. EACH TO the other.' THAT THERE was something. IN THOSE other d*ays. THAT THEY have lost. IN THEIR affluence.' I THANK you.
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