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I DON'T imagine.
THERE IS any place.
ANYWHERE IN the world.
IN WHICH there dwells.
SO MUCH of kindness.
AND OF kindly'needs.
THAN CAN be found.
AMONG MY neighbors.
IN HOLLYWOOD. '
AND JUST, for instance.
I KNOW one man."
AN ACTOR man. * ' '
OF THE older school.
WHO HAS a list. '
OF OLD time actors.
AND ACTRESSES*
WITH WHOM he's played.
MEN AND women.
WHO HAVEN'T clicked
IN A payroll way.
AND AT Christmas time.
AND AT intervals.
THROUGHOUT the year.
TO EACH of them* '
THERE GOES a" check.
FOR A goodly sum.
AND I'D like to tell you.
WHO HE is.
FOR HIS fame is great.
AND YOU'D be' pleased.
BUT HE wouldn't* lice it.
AND SO I won't. *
AND ANOTHER man.
WHOM I know well'.
A BIG producer.
WHO ONCE on 'a 'time.
RAN A little store.
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AND I was with him. OUT ON a set. \ ' ' ABOUT THE time* * OF THE market crash.
AND HE was telling. WHAT IT had done.* TO HIS bank account. AND AS we talked. " THERE CAME to'us. A MIDDLE aged man. OF SADDENED m'le'n. AND SEEDY clothes. AND I mo\xd away, so THE two could talk. AND MY friend wrote. ON A piece of paper. WHATEVER if was. AND THE saddened man. HE WENT away. ' * AND ANYWAY. HOWEVER I learned it. IT DOESN'T matter.' BUT IT was an order. FOR A thousand dollars. TO SAVE the hom'e.' OF THE saddened man. AN OLD employe. WHO HAD broken down. AND ANOTHER man. WHOSE NAME' is linked. WITH HOLLYWOOD. AND THE movie world. HEARD someone" mention. AT A dinner party. OF A serious illness.
WITHIN THE home.
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OF A man he'd known. AND HADN'T see*n.'
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FOR A very long time. AND HE knew was poor. AND THE morning after. HE CALLED this man. TO COME and see him. AND TALKED wi'th him. AND A sick little girl.
HAD THE best there was. IN A fine hospital. AND THE best there was. OF MEDICAL care. ' AND I know, too.
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OF A restaurant. A FAMOUS one!
IN Hollywood' '
AND IT has the spirit. OF HOLLYWOOD. '
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AND I know a man. A WELL known man. IN ANOTHER town". BUT TO fame unknown. IN HOLLYWOOD* " AND HE'D had"hlrd luck. AND WAS just about out. WITH SPIRIT broke'n. AND EVERYTHING. AND HE sat himself down. IN THIS restaurant. WITH THE only d'oflar. HE HAD in the "world. AND THE manager saw him. AND BEING a student. OF THE near down and out. HE SAT with him. AND SAID to him' "
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"YOU'RE A stranger here. "AND I just want to tell you. "IF IT ever happens. "YOU'RE IN need' o'f a meal. "COME ON in here." "ANY TIME at"ari.'"' AND ANYWAY. ' " IT'S A great little city. IS HOLLYWOOD' "
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AND I wouldn't trade it. FOR EVEN Broo'kl'yn". WITH ALL its churches. I THANK you.
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