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He can say today that he has found the right girl at last — the girl he once said he would meet only by a miracle!
Richard Dix and The Right Girl — the former Virginia Webster
By Dorothy Calhoun
DO YOU remember when Richard Dix was known as Hollywood's "perennial bachelor"? And why? . . . He once said to me: "What chance has an actor to meet a sweet, home-loving, practical sort of girl such as a man wants to marry? The only women I know are crazy about acting or else women who are crazy about actors. I'll never marry either type, and I'll never have a chance to know the kind of girl I want for a wife. The glamor that envelops an actor spoils his chance for simple human relationships. As Ernest Brimmer of Minneapolis, I might have met The Right
Girl ; as Richard Dix of Hollywood, I can't. I'm not a born bachelor, but unless a miracle happens, I'll stay one till the end of my days." In 1931, he "thought that he had found The Right Girl, and threw his cynicism overboard. Her name was Winifred Coe ; she was a San Francisco debutante ; and in October of that year they were married. In June, 1933,
Once a "perennial bachelor," Richard Dix still is a perennial screen hero. His newest picture, Mother Lode, finds him in the hills of Arizona, reliving the gold-rush days. It isn't another epic of the early West as Cimarron was, but it offers exciting entertainment.
they were divorced, after months of separation — and Hollywood suspected Richard Dix of being more the cynic than ever. But in June, 1934, the onetime "perennial bachelor" again eloped — -again with a girl whose name was unfamiliar to Hollywood. The name was Virginia Webster. And not only are they still married, but Richard Dix says :
"Yes, a miracle did happen to me. I have found happiness for the first time in my life. If this marriage doesn't last, then nothing can last in heaven or on earth. ... In 1933, after my divorce, I put all thoughts of another marriage away from me. I said to myself, 'Rich, you're going alone to the end of the chapter.' But now — the only shadow there is over my happiness is the thought that something might happen to Virginia or one of the children."
(He has a small daughter by his first wife, twin sons by his second. )
THERE is nothing of the pomaded movie sheik about this big, broad-shouldered Middle Westerner with a comfortable, average American background behind him. Yet women always have been mad about Richard Dix. Ripley is welcome to this information : Dix has probably received more sentimental fan letters than any romantic screen lover except Valentino. One lovelorn maiden who had never met him {Continued on page 74]
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