Evening star., 1948-04-25
"I'M A HERMIT"
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the stove He got the rocker from the porch and put
it before the open oven door, mo; you sit there"
she said When he did, she sat the of the rocker
Il guess this is the best thing that ever happened
to me-" she said Tonight, mean Meeting some
body real like YOU Maybe did know Miles would
find me. But l was showing him, and Hollywood,
that wasn't just another face on the assembly line.
Maybe I'm not saying this right. I wasn't happy.
I'd got what l wanted and didn't want it.
1T was theatrical, dashing off into the mountains.
sxteen-cylinder roadster that matched my hair,
Stacks, tight sweater and sun glasses as phony as
all the rest. was so caught in the machine l took
the Hollywood way out. But now after talking with
you - you're crusader, with ideals You haven't
quit. You're just getting strength for the battle"
Reel fve, he said, and pulled her off the arm of
the rocker into his lap. She yielded to his kiss and
then as his hands moved over her she began strue-
Cling. He grasped her wrists but she broke loose
clawed at his face, and sprang free.
JUsr why do you think you treat me like this?
I've tried to be NICE and you've been nasty all along
You're warped and twisted inside. Stay in that chair
Leave me alone Or you'll regret it,
He felt of his face, and looked at the blood on his
fingers. Remember Hiton?"
James Hilton?'
That's what it means to you I'm talking about
little English town Burton on Trent IS some
Nissen huts and six inches of mud. You did show
there for the GIs You came out in white dress.
and the CTS went wild 1t didn't matter what YOU
did, it was what you were breath of home
"You made point of playing up to the GIs There
brass ten deep around you but you went over to
the local pub with buck sergeant. And he took YOU
for ride in jeep. He parked by hedgerow on
little hill overlooking the precise little English fields
The war crammed time together, for you couldn't
count on tomorrow If you met girl of your dreams
you couldn't parley around with the conventional
courtship
80 it seemed possible that night; anything seemed
possible. So you said things to the sergeant and he
said things to you the kind of things you wouldn't
talk about ordinarily until you'd known each other
longer and gone through the conventional by-play.
He told you his dreams. You said you were sick of
Hollywood its tnsel and artiiciality. 1t was
machine, and you got caught in it and were on an
assembly belt You said you were glad to meet some
body real - genuine. And things seemed possible"
''CHEEvER VANE" ;" she breathed She moved toward
him slowly. almost gropngly. And didn't recog-
nize you when you drove up to the cabin today
didn't know you until just now" She ducked her
head, and began crying quietly. What have done
to you? What have done to you?"
Even the tears Reel five ;"
She whirled on him. What do you take me for?
I'm not monster! Cheever let me explain went all
over the world with the shows so many places, 50
many faces. thought if could brighten the lives of
those CTS stuck in the mud and the grind give them
an evening with an American girl make them happy
just one night, something to remember ="
"Irealized all that when wrote you and the form
letter with the picture from the fan mail depart
ment Don't atter yourself that went running to the