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CHAPTER XXX.
Anne insisted that Dan bring his play over and read it to her. Paul Collier had seen her the following day at Grand United, had told her about it, and Anne had never seen him so enthused."
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Anne nodded and he continued: "The agent said it's getting ter- ribly hard to find a producer who
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"It's a play about a gangster and his girl, and it's got a wallop in ittures turned everything upside the world. that-Paul drew a deep breath- down.". "well, it's a knockout, Anne; just a knockout! But you know Dan," be added.
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"That's Dan. I tell you, it's get-movies?" ting terrible to live with that guy. I never saw a man in my life who could put so much into a thing and You then sour on it so quickly, know what the trouble with Dan is?"
"He doesn't have enough faith in himself, for one thing. Isn't that it?"
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Her eyes lashed. Anne got up and went over to the sofa and ant beside him. "It's all there, Dan-- everything; and pictures could do
"I've been thinking," Paul an it better than the stage ever could; and they could develop that war swered. "Do you know what you sequence into something tremen-need, Dan? You need a little dous. Do it, Dan!"
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He watched the smoke from his Paul said, "Yes, and he's bull- headed," and Anne smiled, remem-cigarette rise in a straight, slea- headed,thing Ziggy Young had der column under the yellow lamp shade. "That's the idea," he said "I mean." Paul explained, "that half doubtfully.
"Why, it's the only thing to do you can't argue with him. Just be Dan, I'm crazy about your play! 1 cause his ideas haven't set Holly-think it's marvellous." wood on fire, he thinks he's a flop.
"I've got an idea," he continued. He's got a lot of stuff, but it's his
"It's probably been worked before, Buenos A own, and it's a little different from
at! "I mean it. I think it would be but everything's been tried what the studios have been used to wonderful to play the part of that least once in Hollywood, It's too bad there wasn't anybody girl." She added with a frown: doesn't make much difference." with any imagination over at Com-"That's the kind of thing I'd like tinental when Dan was there; he to do and they want me to sing might have been sitting pretty if and dance." it hadn't been for Adamson." So Dan stuck the play in pocket that evening and went to the bungalow,
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"Moua and Eva have gone to the theatre," Anne informed him, and at Dan's inquiry she said that Eva sumed to be herself once more and things were pretty much as usual sgain.
Dan put out his cigarette and turned his head to look at her. "I've done none of the things I'd really hoped to do" Anne'said, and there was a bit of wistfulness in her voice.
"Well, let's have it."
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Dan said he did not. "Who is he?"
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"He's the scenario chief.. Well, you don't need to know him he's She was silent then, and Dana good egg, and If you let him looked thoughtfully at his hands: know you're a friend of mine he'll spread them out before him and see you. I'm not," he hastened to rubbed them together. He said, add, "going to suggest anything "We've just forgotten that any "Yes, that's so," and it occurred that won't square with that funny BANK OF CHINA. thing happened, Mona and L." to him now that he might have Dan wanted to know if he been somewhat selfish in taking Anne was couldn't leave the play with her so it for granted that that she could read it some other satisfied with what she was doing. He said as much to her. "I've time, but she insisted that he must read it to her, and she placed him been grousing so much because on the sofa, near a lamp, and her things weren't breaking right for self sat in a nearby chair where me that I'd forgotten there were she could watch his face as she others who had a right to kick." listened.
"Well." Dan said as he obeyed her, "you asked for it; don't blame me," and he began to read.
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He suggested that they go for a short ride. "I've earned it, Anne, don't you think? And I'd like a limeade about a mile high; my throat's full of cotton."
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"Just about thanks to you." "Well, forget that, part of it. Now, here's what you do," and Collier, gesturing earnestly with his hand, began to unfold his plan.
(To Be Continued).
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He held a cigarette in his hand and he paused now and then to and then they headed for the ocean, puff at it to cover the awkwardness and on the way back, with a waxing he felt. And at first he was em- moon in the sky and a soft breeze barrassedly conscious of his own singing in the palms, Anne sung
for him. voice, so that he read without ex
Her voice was low and thrilling. pression, somewhat as a school boy Dan said, when she had ended her reads his lesson; but this was not song: "You must always sing. for long. Presently he had forgot Anne. Even when you are doing ten that he was reading type- the things you want most of all to 22473 written words to Anne Winter; the do, you must always sing.". thing became a play again, the play into which he had poured o Paul Collier was sitting up much of his hope and his reading when he returned home. enthusaasm and his pas-
"Hello, my boy," he said lazily. 22404 longing sionate
write Well what did she think of it? something that men would know Did she like it?" him by.
"Yeah. How do you think that thing would go in the movies, Pan)?"
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He had conceived it some years ago when he was covering night court for human interest" stories for his paper, and it had lain in the back of his mind for a long time, waiting to be written. And now that he had almost forgotten about it, it was back again, and it began to live again for him.
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It was the story of a New York quarter. I've been wasting it on gangster-a member of one of the you until I'm sick of talking to 22481 dock gangs-and the girl he left you."
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When he had finished he threw the manuscript carelessly to one side, and he got up to stretch, and he saw then that Anne had actual Dan laughed, but his face grew tears in her eyes. The sight of red nevertheless. "Aw, be your- them moved him; suddenly he self," he said lamely. realized, with a new and strange But Collier, though he continued sense of pride, that it was what to smile, was serious. "You've got he had written that had made a great idea there, Dan. I'll swear Anne ery. He could not be, then. I think it'll make the swellest pic- the sorry fuilure that he had be- ture Hollywood has seen in а gun to think himself-not if year." something he had written could do. that to. Anne-Winter.
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