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THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE

And meantime he's been knocked down to the chief princess around there, and she falls for him, and she thinks he's the real High Guy, see how I mean? But he won't marry her because he feels that would be playing kind of a dirty trick on her—see, you get a lot of complications and dramatic problems and so on, that way.

Well, you get the idea. It's one that a lot of folks have taken a crack at, but here's where I'll make my play entirely different:

Most authors, if they were doing that piece, they'd leave the poor American there in Uneeda or Nabisco or whatever you want to call this fool kingdom. And that would be agin all my American ideals, besides not being original. So what I plan to do is this:

He tells the princess what he really is, and they by golly chuck all their rank and come back to America, and he makes good on the job and say, wouldn't that make a whale of a what they call a Dramatic Contrast—second act you show 'em there