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"It is strange, Rich," I said, "that this should have come to you after all this time — and after all the women that you have known — " He did not speak for a moment, staring grimly before him as though seeing them pass in review — the sentimental, the neurotic, the frustrated, the scheming, the curious, all the women who try to meet a popular actor. Then he turned to me. "It wouldn't have made any difference wJicn I first met Virginia," he said quietly. "She is the girl that I have been looking for all my life—' Good actor though he is, Richard Dix has always seemed to me oddly out of place in the movie world. He has wanted out of life so much less than the glitter and excitement, the fine cars, immense houses and the yachts that screen fame means to so many stars. Or rather, he has wanted out of life so much more than these things, for what this big husky exfootball hero was really looking for in Hollywood was the sort of home he remembered as a child — a quiet place, filled with comfortable furniture, books, and affection. He was really seeking the kind of life he had left behind to become a famous screen star. Hollywood is hardly the place to find such things and so Richard Dix became a cynic . . . Hollywood is hardly the place to discover quiet-eyed girls who have no other ambition in life than to be wives and mothers, and so Richard Dix became a bachelor again after one short sally into matrimony that left him embittered against the institution . . . And then the miracle happened. '"IPHE way I met Virginia was noth■■■ ing less than that," Richard told me. "It seems as if it must have been meant, somehow. Out of all the women in Hollywood, three thousand answered my ad for a new secretary. And out of those three thousand, my Uncle Joseph picked eight for me to interview myself. After one or two of their names, he had marked a cross to show that he liked them especially. After one name — Virginia Webster — he had put five crosses. 'That girl must have made a hit with you,' I told him. And he replied, 'Yes. She seemed like a nice little thing with no nonsense about her, and pretty, too !' So I talked with her first — -" "I knew pretty early in our acquaintance that I was attracted to Virginia, but I tried not to fall in love. I had de cided that I was done with all that sort of thing. Still, I dictated more letters than I ever had before. The first time I asked her out to lunch, I argued with myself about it. T wouldn't if I were you, Rich, old man,' I told myself. 'She might think you were getting fresh. She would probably turn you down.' And then I found myself blurting out like a great schoolboy, 'How about a bite to eat?' and she said, 'I'd love it.' So we went to a lunchroom and had chile and hamburgers." This is not a Hollywood romance that Richard Dix relates to us, but the love story of a Minneapolis boy who called on a girl Saturday nights, carrying her gifts of flowers and candy. It is the quiet, simple love story he had dreamed of and found — after many years. "VIRGINIA turned me down when * I first proposed to her," Rich confessed. "She didn't think we knew each other well enough. She couldn't guess that I had known her always ! So I decided to get away from everything and go around the world. I got as far as New York. But I just couldn't go on without one more try. I bombarded that girl with telegrams and letters until she had to get on the train, and come on and marry me to get rid of me." They live so quietly that Hollywood seldom sees them. The movie gossipers might think that Richard Dix had retired from the screen, except for one thing. His popularity has received a strange impetus recently. His fan mail has increased. One of the first American stars invited to England by GaumontBritish, he has recently scored a big hit in G-B's Transatlantic Tunnel. Box-office returns prove that people have been going to see him even in such unpretentious pictures as West of the Pecos and The Arizonian. Perhaps happiness does photograph ! "Virginia and I once saw a movie called The Man Who Reclaimed His Head," Rich told me. "Well, I'm The Man Who Reclaimed His Heart. I can hardly believe I am Richard Dix sometimes. Virginia hasn't any ambitions to be a screen star. She doesn't want to make a society light out of me. For some strange reason, she likes me the way / am. We don't go out to big parties. We lead the life of average married people — if they're lucky — in any town in the United States." And thus one man's dream came true in Hollywood where so many dreams have smashed to glittering bits. Thus one actor has been able to have the life he wants in spite of Success, which usually foists its own scheme of things on a man. It is a life of simple human happiness, family dinners, discussions of books before an open fire, youngsters growing up in a happy atmosphere. 74 Movie Classic for March, 1936