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Maureen O' Sullivan and Bill were standing in the doorway as we entered. Maureen and I spoke and I was introduced to Bill. I said, 'How do you do' and Bill said, 'How do you do' and we didn't speak again . . . that day. "Weeks passed. One day I was told I was to make some publicity stills in a bathing-suit. Mr. Powell had kindly loaned us his swimming-pool for the art. When we got there I said, 'Oh, isn't it beautiful here, it's wonderful!' If anyone had said to me that day — 'This is to be your home,' I would have had that person Put Away ! I didn't even expect Mr. P. .would be there. But he was. He asked us to stay for lunch. I thought, Oh, isn't he a sweet guy ! We had fun after lunch, playing Caruso records. When we left, Mr. Poo said to me (I call Bill 'Mr. Poo' and he calls me 'Mousie'!), 'Will you have dinner with me some night?' And I said, 'I'd love to,' falling off the chair. "When I got home a big package was waiting for me ! It was twelve Caruso records ! The card said, 'I hope you will enjoy them, William Powell.' That was the Beginning! A few days later I got a phone call. A voice said, 'Do you know who this is ?' I said, 'No.' Then I thought, hot and cold, Oh, Lord, it's HIM ! He said he was invited to a quiet little dinner at Myrna Loy's house. He asked me to go with him. Well, I'm out of my mind, I don't know ivhat's happening ! "We go to Myrna's. I feel just like a fan would feel, meeting Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man, in person ! I met Arthur Hornblc of course, and Ronnie Colman and Reggie Gardner. I am in a whirl ! Well, the first thing that happens, Mr. Poo has knocked my hand and the glass of wine I'm holding spills all over me ! I have to go into dinner, splashed! The next thing, he drops his roll in his soup and it dunks me, sitting next to him! The next thing, he squirts a lime and it gets me in the eye ! I guess I knew, then, that he had a kind of crush on me ! "The next thing, he takes me to dinner at Chasen's. I had never been to Chasen's ! We go up to the Little Room with some other people and they begin singing old songs and don't know the lyrics and I, being in vaudeville, know them all and they can't get over it ! Another night we went to the Grove . . . Bill sent me white orchids . . . I'd never had white orchids before, nor any other kind, truth to tell ! We had a wonderful time ; we closed the place and went on from there . . . "Came Christmas. It's Christmas Eve and I'm alone with my family, of course. In comes a messenger boy staggering under a HUGE basket of every flower that grows ! On top is a white, glittering Christmas tree, all trimmed, and on the tip-top of the tree — a white rubber MOUSE ! Tied to the basket were bottles of perfume, AND a little white radio for the head of my bed, reading-light and all ! "That's Bill," sighed Bill's Diana, "he thinks of lovely things to do and lovely ways to do them which, of course, makes life a lovely thing . . . Two days before New Year's, Bill drives Mother and me to Palm Springs to join Maxine. Even Mother didn't believe it when Bill asked us to drive down. Well, ■ it was down there, we were driving back from the dunes one evening; we were on the desert in the moonlight, when he asked me to marry him ! I was very calm," said Diana, un-calmly, "just as though I'd had several proposals ! I told him I'd give him my answer when we got back to Hollywood the next day. I knew I wasn't thinking, then. I thought, I've GOT to think ! "Bill asked Mother, formally, for my hand. He asked Dad. He said, 'Everything must be done the right way.' . . . The next evening we were all having dinner at Bill's house. He suddenly said to me, 'Want to drive to Yuma tonight?' I said, 'Yes.' That was my answer! "Well," said Diana, out of breath, "the papers carried most of the story, I guess, when it all happened. Except that I drove down, just as I was, bandana around my hair, print dress I'd had on ever since we left Palm Springs that morning, run in my stocking. I was a Character ! We drove through rains and mountain fogs, Bill, Nat Wolfe, Larry Barbier of M-G-M and I . . . the clutch went back on us and we had to borrow a broken-down jalopy in which I am positive, the Thin Man never arrived at any of his film weddings ! And we were married there, with Edna Best as matron of honor, you know. And that was a year ago, January 5, 1940 . . . and this is the first time I've ever talked about it ! " AND here I am . . . completely happy. A M-G-M took up my option a few weeks ago and . . ." Diana examined her starry-eyed face in the mirror of her vanity, a beautiful, platinum thing, crusted with sapphires and diamonds, lipstick to match she said, then, "There's a little story about this vanity which tells the story of — well, of what it's like being married to Mr. Poo. "Every month, we have an anniversary . . . we give each other presents . . . last month I gave Bill his gift in the morning. He didn't give me anything. The whole day passed, nothing. Oh, well, I thought, he has forgotten ; this can't go on forever ... At dinner Bill said, 'Oh, I forgot, look under your chair !' I did. There was a big bottle of perfume for me ! This went on, bottles of perfume with every course ! During the last course he said, 'There's something for you on my desk, want to look?' It was a beautiful diamond butterfly ! "It is like living in a S'prise Package, life with Bill," laughed Diana, "I could write a book about it — already ! Just last week, for instance ... I'd been saying I wished I could see The Great Zicgfcld again . . . one evening Bill said, 'Let's go to a show.' We drove to M-G-M ! We went to a projection-room and we saw — you've guessed it — The Great Zicgfcld! I cried when I watched it, Bill was so wonderful in that . . . "So . . . that's how it all is, sweet and surprising . . . our routine at home is — no routine ! I may get home this very afternoon (Mr. Poo will be in the pool, no doubt !) and he may say, 'Let's have dinner out tonight !' Or we may stay at home for a couple of weeks straight, swimming, reading, playing records, seeing some of Bill's best friends, Myrna and Arthur, the Ronnie Colmans, the Warner Baxters, the Richard Barthelmesses . . . my family ... I just feel that I want to do whatever he wants to do and that's the way it should be . . . and he does everything I want to do . . . and do you wonder I'm completely happy . . . about everything?" "I do not," I said, managing to get in the last word (also the first, practically, since we sat down) . "I do not. I only wonder you are not a borderline case . . . 'whacky* would be the only way to describe any other girl with a Cinderella story such as yours !" 76