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At home now she isn't called on to whip up such gargantuan repasts, but she substitutes quality for quantity. She cooks every Sunday when the help is off and loves to experiment with new dishes. She's expert at anything, but my favorites of her culinary efforts are veal birds and doughnuts. There isn't a jealous bone in Dinah's body and she is always looking for new talent and trying to give a newcomer a boost. She is a very sentimental girl and I'm afraid has a little trouble with me on that score. We had such a big family — I was the last of fifteen children — that we didn't fuss much about birthdays and holidays. Now if I feel I want to buy a present. I don't have to wait for a special day. But Dinah is so sentimental that on her birthday she gives presents to Missy and me and anyone else who happens to be over for the occasion! She has also saved every letter I ever wrote to her and they make quite a bundle. She was quite shocked when I kiddingly suggested she give them to a recent paper drive! I've not had to write often recently because, bless her, she arranges her schedule of personal appearances so Missy and I can go along. She's also sentimental about collecting records of other singers she admires, literally has hundreds and hundreds of them, but hasn't bothered to save all her own. She asks my opinion about numbers she records and I give it to her, but sometimes I've been wrong. Dinah used to ask for my reaction on her clothes, but doesn't any more; possibly she realizes I think she can wear anything and any color — which she can. However, when she was named to a list of best-dressed women last year she told an interviewer that she "dresses to please her husband." I've purposely waited to talk about Dinah the mother because I could have used all my available space on that facet alone. I said she was "wonderful" and think the proof is in Missy's behavior. Say, if you will, that I'm making a noise like any father, but I insist that Missy is a very active, normal child, yet she's also sensible and quiet, doesn't attempt to get out of line, is understanding and alert to right and wrong, all of which proves what sort of mother Dinah is. Dinah, fortunately, is a strong, healthy girl. She needs to be with her three CBS shows with Jack Smith every week, TV, personal appearances, benefits, RCA-Victor recordings and now at least one picture a year for Paramount. She loves show business, but I think she could be great in politics or public relations because of her basic intelligence, warmth and sincerity. Maybe she's a little too easy in business, never having driven a hard bargain in her life, but on the other hand, there's not a person who really knows her who doesn't love her. I love picture business too and can't understand actors who beef about Hollywood. (I suppose I can sneak in a plug here for my latest Edward Small-Columbia pictures, "Texas Rangers" and "War Cry/') But if we weren't in show business I think we would both like farming. Dinah is getting rather good training on our 6% acres out in Encino where we raise all sorts of vegetables and fruit, have two dogs ( we did have eight at one time), 120 chickens, 10 geese, a dozen ducks, three lambs and some calves. As I said, she's adaptable. Put her in any situation and she can cope with it. She can be a city girl one day, a country girl the next. I tell her I wouldn't have her for a wife if she weren't like that. What am I saying? Didn't she put her brand on me before she even had me roped and tied? Great To Have Her Back Again! Continued from page 26 operative in regard to her fans. Practically every periodical has tried to get a story out of Rita about the unhappy ending of her marriage. Phone calls to Glenbrook, wires, special delivery letters receive routine treatment: she ignores them. She saw the press briefly one day after her arrival in Nevada. She posed for the photographers for five or six minutes. That was all. Then it was kaput, finished. Since then, photographers from both Associated Press and United Press have been hanging around waiting for a chance to shoot a layout of her Nevada hideaway. They get the brushoff. To further insure her privacy, she has two armed guards patrolling the place. She purposely didn't stay at any of the swanky dude ranches or big hotels. She felt, correctly, that she could not insure absolute privacy in a hotel that was open to the public. Her closest friends, Jack and Lola Leighter, who have been with Rita since her return from Rome and who drove her to Nevada, are incommunicado in Los Angeles. They are staying at the home of Dr. Pertson, a dentist, but they are on guard against even general questions from the press. "I wouldn't want to say anything at all about Rita's life," Lola Leighter told me over the phone, "unless we had written permission from her." Over at Columbia, they are in a real box. Until Rita is on salary again, they cannot legally arrange any publicity or news releases for her. They cannot request her to grant interviews, pose for pictures, or even read a script. Yet, they know she is on her way home. There has been a frantic search for stories for her. The most likely is one written by writer-producer Virginia Van Upp, who wrote and produced Rita's greatest hit, "Gilda." The very fact that there is a mad scramble for suitable scripts shows how unpremeditated was Rita's decision to divorce Aly. According to confidantes,