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It’s very rhythmic, and sounds exactly like a Bay Rum commercial. Then, even though it’s been only four hours since I last saw her, she’s as effusive as if she hadn’t seen me for three weeks. She greets everyone she likes with exuberance. She adds a diminutive and affectionate “i” or “ie” to the narhes of almost all her friends. She calls George Gobel “Hotsi” because that was his name in their picture, “The Birds and the Bees.” She calls Paul Jones, “Paulie,” Donald O’Connor, “Donnie,” Jeanmaire, “Zizi.” Like most affectionate women, Mitzi loves pets. Her preference is for a real dog, not a lap dog. Until recently, she always had a dog. Now there’s no room in our apartment for one, but I’m sure that when we buy a house, she’ll get a dog immediately. She’s also had spurts of being interested in tropical fish. She doesn’t care much for birds, though she’s not afraid of them. There are very few things Mitzi really fears. I have heard that she is terribly afraid of heights. Recently, when we were in Reno on vacation, she was chosen Snow Queen. As such, one of her duties was to take a ride on a ski lift. We got on this thing, and suddenly we were seventy feet up in the air. I’m not supposed to be afraid of heights, but when I saw how high up we were, I turned pale. “What’s the matter with you?” Mitzi said. She was looking over the side, waving at the people behind her, and having a wonderful time. She was just as relaxed as if she’d been standing on the ground instead of being wafted into the air. So is my wife afraid of heights? All I can say is that Mitzi is certain things in certain situations. Up there on the ski lift, fear never entered her heart. But me — well, I was scared to death that she was going to slip off any minute! M itzi can be very superstitious. She never puts a hat on a bed, never walks under a ladder, never talks about a deal until it’s signed and delivered, never says who her next co-star is going to be until he’s signed. She will never start anything of great consequence when the minute hand of the clock is on the down sweep. She always starts everything on an upbeat. If the director asks if she can be on the set at 9; 25, she says it will take her about five minutes longer. She manages to appear on the set exactly at 9:31 a.m., when the minute hand of the clock is definitely going upward. Still, she can be flexible about some of her superstitions. Once when she broke a mirror, I said, “I think it’s ridiculous to believe you’re going to embrace seven years of hard luck because of one broken ten-cent mirror.” She smiled up at me. “Yes, it is pretty ridiculous, isn’t it?” she admitted. Immediately, she put the superstition out of her mind. That’s what I call an accommodating superstition. Both Mitzi and I have tempers. However, she has a thermostat she uses on my temper. When I explode, she says, “Why not relax about this?” Of course, when her thermostat doesn’t work, we have an argument. When I’m moody or worried, she’s very thoughtful. “Can I get you anything?” she asks. “Is there anything I can help you with? Or would you like a littleB peace and solitude? What is best for you?-H There is a great deal of give and take I in our marriage. When Mitzi has to go tcl work early, I wake up with the birds, too,fl and make her breakfast for her. M On the other hand, she delights inj I keeping the house spotless — with the help, 1 of a cleaning woman just once a week — J and in creating exotic dishes for dinner. ] When we are expecting friends, she williJ make a big roast beef, goulash or fish I ■ dish with sauterne, and bedeck the' whole thing with mushrooms. People will ask incredulously, looking at Mitzi, who appears to have just stepped ij out of a bandbox, “Did you make this?”H She will bask in this. She loves the sun , shine of approval, and spreads it gen , erously, whenever she can, without being dishonest. j S ome people who don’t know Mitzi very | ; well have intimated she’s a madcap. Sheis witty, there is plenty of sparkle about her, but I don’t see her as a madcap. I seeher as a very sensitive, bright, searchingji person, who is curious about everything. i She will take nothing for granted. She ! wants to know the whys and wherefores'! of everything. After she saw Frank Sinatra in “The I Man with the Golden Arm,” she was so impressed by his characterization of Frankie Machine that she asked everyone she met who had seen the picture, whati they thought was the significance of the character. She wanted to know, “Why was he' dependent? Why did he depend so muchs on Kim Novak?” She also wanted to know not only the motivation of all the characters played bythe stars in the film, but how the actors produced the effects they did. Yummy feels as if she used to pass over, things, take them more or less for granted,; and now she is looking into everything in a very searching way. Originally a very sensitive girl, she has become more intuitive about people than ever before, due to this searching attitude of mind. Once when we entertained a large group at our home, I noticed she wasn’t circulat-' ing with a lot of people. I felt she should be talking to everyone, acting the part of hostess, and I told her so, “Why do you feel that’s so important?” she asked me. I gave her eleven fast reasons. She listened to them all very politely, then said, “There are four people at the party who know no one. I have been trying to shepherd them around so they’ll get to know the others.” Instinctively, Mitzi had sought out thej people who needed her most. Pretty soon; everyone knew everyone at the party. Her fine feminine instincts had led her to do; just the right thing. 1 Sometimes, looking at my lovely wife, 1 think back to the evening I first proposed! to her. I had always hoped to make thal proposal under very romantic, glamorousj circumstances. I had rehearsed the wordS; I would say, with the moon gleaming over-' head in a sky dotted with stars. i Then one night Mitzi and I went out for dinner. The dinner was horrible. The service was impossible. The waiter spilled things all over the table, and even on Mitzi’s lap. In the middle of all this confusion, I said to Mitzi, “I’d like to marry you.” She beamed back at me. “Wonderful," she said. And in that one word she summed up everything. In spite of the adjustments, the problems, the five radios, our marriage has been just that — wonderful. The EIni 4 104