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40 East 18th St.
N.Y.C.
Tuesday; Apr, 17th

Dear Dane;

Can't say how glad I was to re-
ceive our letter- especially to learn that things
look brighter for you. Would have answered
sooner but my own affairs were in a pretty
chaotic state- I think opening, and closing, two
shows within one month on Broadway deserves
the term "chaotic". Following that I was a
bit disgusted with the way things had turned
out and decided to sell my soul down the
river to the movies to the highest bidder. That
would seen to be Paramount. Accordingly, I
took a test last Friday that will serve as
my calling card to the mogals on the coast and
have nothing to do now but sit back and
await developments. Haven't seen the test
yet so I can't say whether I'm a Valentina or
a Lou Chaney. If the answer is "yes" I should
be on the coast within a month to stay for
a term of either 13 or 26 weeks (as yet un-
determined.) My main desire in doing this is to
get enough money back of me to be able to
sit back and pick scripts instead of diving
into shows that I know to be faulty but which