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Hello Yukon 28209 Yes, this is Candy-Matson Eat that baby on the tree. I fix those dolly tracks and look out that cable talk Mallard what in the name of the San Francisco Police Department are you doing up here on Telegraph Hill working candy in the name of the San Francisco Police Department Here with these people who are making a movie

Yeah, how about that me a lieutenant and homicide and I'm assigned to writing heard on these Hollywood characters Oh, it's better than murder. I'll take murder any day. What are you doing around here? I did some shopping at Speedy's this morning.

While I was pinching the avocados, they told me that there was a Hollywood gang over by Coit Tower shooting some scenes for a movie with a San Francisco background. They might just as well have stayed in the studio and brought their own lawns, prop trees, fake bushes, or works.

If it ever snowed up here on Telegraph Hill, they'd have brought some of that along too. You've never worked in Hollywood, Melard. Only God can make a tree, but Hollywood presumes to improve on them.

What are they doing now? Just getting ready to shoot a scene, I think. I've been rehearsing it all morning. What's it all about, you know? As far as I can figure, it's a story about San Francisco right after the Gold Rush.

Look at all the costumes. Very authentic. Looks like they'd been shipped around the horn. By the way, Mallard, you know who's in the picture? Some lush tomato named Cherry Dana and the Colorad boy, Buff Arnold.

Arnold? Did you say Buff Arnold? That's right, why? Oh, forgive me, Miller, dear, I knew Buck Arnold when he didn't have a place to house in. He professed to carry a very warm torch for me.