LINDA LEE INCORPORATED
A Novel
By Louis Joseph Vance
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue
Copyright 1921-1922
By Louis Joseph Vance
THE COAST OF COCKAIGNE
Copyright 1922
By The McCall Company
All rights reserved including those of translation
into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
To
HARRY PAYNE BURTON
because he made me write it
AUTHOR'S NOTE
There are no portraits of living persons in the following pages.
The incidents related in illustration of present-day methods ofmotion-picture production are, on the other hand, with one minorexception, drawn from first-hand observation in the California studios.
Under the title of THE COAST OF COCKAIGNE, an abridged version of thisstory was published serially, during the Winter of 1921-22, in McCall'sMagazine.
Louis Joseph Vance
Darien, 20 January, 1922.
CONTENTS
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