AUTHOR'S NOTE
Reading edition
There are no portraits of living persons in the following pages.
The incidents related in illustration of present-day methods of motion-picture production are, on the other hand, with one minor exception, drawn from first-hand observation in the California studios.
Under the title of THE COAST OF COCKAIGNE, an abridged version of this story was published serially, during the Winter of 1921-22, in McCall's Magazine.
Louis Joseph Vance Darien, 20 January, 1922.