A correspondent imagines his Hollywood Hills view clear and the blocking poplars die

A correspondent wrote that in 1933, sailing the Danube from Vienna to Budapest, he vowed to own such a view; he bought a home in the Hollywood hills for its view, and when poplar trees grew to block it he imagined the clear vista and every blocking tree died.
Date (happened)
1933
unresolved
  1. 1933 stated · preferred
    Source Be Master of the Mood ¶23"in 1933", told in Be Master of the Mood (nid 1834)
Place
Persons
Told
  1. 10 April 1964 stated
    Source Be Master of the MoodBe Master of the Mood (nid 1834), telling 1834-6, told 1964-04-10
Sources

Source

  • Be Master of the Mood ¶23 (He said, “Neville, did I misuse my Imagination? Was it selfish of me? The trees died…not all the trees, only the poplar trees that blocked my view.)