My dear -- didn’t you know? [...]I write

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My dear -- didn’t you know? [...]I write the most widely syndicated column in the United States. Anybody who reads the newspapers -- ! [...] If you don’t know, my dear, I can’t quite tell you all. But I think I can say in all modesty that I am one of the most important figures in the industry. You know it was I who gave America Gary Cooper, and Rex, the Wonder Horse, Yes, I’ve done very well for myself. You know I always could write, May, but I never expected to be the Helen Hobart -- ha ha! Oh, I can’t tell you everything one-two-three -- but moviegoers all over the country take my word as law. Of course I earn a perfectly fabulous salary -- but I’m hardly allowed to buy anything -- I’m simply deluged with gifts. At Christmas, my dear -- well, you’d hardly believe it, but just before we came East they presented me with a home in Beverly Hills! [...] They said I deserved it -- that I simply lived in the studios. I always take an interest in new pictures in production, you know, and suggest things to them -- and they said I ought to have a home I could go to and get away from the studios for a while. Wasn’t that marvelous?

Hart, Moss and Kaufman, George S. Once in a Lifetime. Samuel French, New York, NY. 1960. pp. 24 - 25.