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YORK TIRE & RUBBER CO., Dept.4005 3855*69 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago. III. Richard Dix And His Three Bosses (Continued fronn page twenty-nine) pay her way by teaching English and drama at the Oakland high school. • "Virginia's Office was in my suite of rooms at the studio. She had been my secretary but a short time when one morning I dropped into her office to ask her to handle a business matter for me. I had a number of things to do but she proved so interesting to talk to that I remained for about an hour and a half. As I sat there I wanted to invite her to lunch but I couldn't muster the courage to do so. "Finally I left for my dressing room, still wanting to invite her. There I argued it out with myself, using more arguments than Emily Post ever could think about as to why it wouldn't be proper. I left my dressing room firmly convinced that I wasn't going to invite her to lunch, walked into her office and said, 'Say, how about having lunch with me today?' "She accepted and the next day I took her to lunch again. This went on for several days with the shadow of Emily Post constantly counseling me that I shouldn't be entertaining my secretary. Virginia, of course, also knew her Emily Post but I always found business matters that had to be discussed over the luncheon table. "She had been my secretary about five months when my contract with the studio ended and I was undecided about my future plans, so I had the unwelcome task of telling her I no longer needed a secretary. I invited her to take a vacation on my ranch but couldn't convince her it would be any less proper for her to accept as my guest than as my secretary! "She is the most honest and frank girl I have ever known. I invited her to attend a preview with me, the first she had ever attended. When I called for her she had on a lovely frock in my favorite shade of blue. I remarked about it and she said, 'Oh, it isn't mine. A girl friend was over this afternoon and when I told her I was going to a preview with you she offered to lend it to me!' ® "When Did I propose to her? About four or five months after I met her — and she promptly turned me down. She was afraid we were being a little hasty and that we should take more time to think it over. Then my film contract ended and I went to New York. I was determined to become a wanderer, to tour the world and forget all about the picture business. But in New York I was terribly lonely — I couldn't forget her. I telephoned her, asked her to come there and marry me and she agreed to." They were married in June, 1934, by the same justice of the peace in Jersey City that had married Virginia's parents. After the ceremony they prepared for the world tour but Rich noticed something was troubling Virginia and asked her about it. "Rich," she began timidly, "I hope you won't think I'm terrible but I have something I'd like to ask you. There's something I'd like you to do — but please don't be disappointed in me." "Honey," he cried, "I'll do anything in the world for you. Whatever is troubling you?" "Please, couldn't we go home instead of around the world?" she asked shyly. 62 Needless to say they returned to Hollywood, traveling by boat through the Panama Canal. That was their honeymoon. They went to Rich's home in Beverly Hills and for a time Virginia endured the easy-going, haphazard housekeeping that was a holdover from her husband's bachelor days. Then one day she again timidly aproached the president of the "firm." "Rich, dear," she said hesitantly, "do you mind if I put in a little system here?" "Mind?" Rich replied affectionately. "I wish you would. It's your home, do just as you please." She immediately took charge with results that leave Rich speechless in his efforts to describe. "For one thing," he said, "she does all the marketing. You know my real name is Brimmer and our joint checking account is in that name. At the markets they know her as Mrs. Brimmer and not as Mrs. Richard Dix so there is no chance of boosting prices because she is the wife of a movie star. And believe me, that's something." • The House is run for Rich with a system comparable to the most modern business methods. Virginia has a full appreciation of the demands made upon Rich's time by his picture work and of the problems confronting him. Late dinners caused by long drawn out studio conferences disturb her not at all and she is always ready to go where Rich wants to go on a minute's notice. Their marital firm is a business offering huge profits in happiness and contentment. And the only thing bordering on a depression they've ever experienced is the feeling they have when they are unavoidably separated by Rich's picture work. This happened during the filming of his latest RKO-Radio picture, Peacemaker (tentative title), when he often had to work late at night and she was at the ranch. But "inter-office memoes" helped that — with Rich writing little notes complaining about the food Jenny, the cook, gave him, as his way of letting Virginia know he couldn't eat he was so lonesome for her. • A Few weeks before the blessed event was due, Rich signed an unusual contract with British Gaumont to make a picture in England. It specified he was not to sail for England until thirty days after the baby's birth. In the event the baby was not in good health at birth he was not to be required to assume the the contract until such time as the infant's life was entirely out of jeopardy! When the blessed event became twins, he argued in vain that logically the thirty days should become sixty. When we talked to Rich he was embarrassed and indignant about a story that had been published concerning the nursery he was building in his Beverly Hills home. "Do me the favor of correcting that silly story, won't you?" he asked. "It said we were installing all manner of contraptions in the nursery, including a crane that would automatically lift the babies out of the tub and onto the dressing table. For one thing, Virginia wouldn't think of letting anybody but herself, let alone a mechanical contri HOLLYWOOD «*, !■ V