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“He was my boss and he had every right to hire and fire whom he saw fit. I respected him as my employer and tried to do a good job. I worked for him and he paid me—that’s all I’d expect from any boss.” If Godfrey ever showed any favorit¬ ism to members of his cast, Marion was not one of the lucky ones. She invoked her rights to refuse discussion on this point. Asked whether Arthur ever blew his top during a rehearsal, Marion said, “They were average re¬ hearsals. Sometimes things went right and sometimes things went wrong. “Now that it’s all over, I feel happy and free. It’s a whole new life, like a page being turned in a book. You look back at that last page with grati¬ fication, then forward to the next.” She refers to Larry as “Papa” and “My No. 1 Boss-man.” Their romance started as a simple friendship, she said, and grew as a result of their mutual need for companionship, since her first marriage had ended in di¬ vorce and Larry’s wife had died. About a year ago Larry proposed. But I told him, T’m not ready to get married yet.’ He just laughed and said, ‘Okay. But the next time you’ll have to ask me—and I’ll make you pay the $2 for the license.’ He was so right. A couple of days before his birthday last May 3, I wrote him, ‘Okay, you win.’ And I enclosed two $1 bills.” Had Godfrey tried to break up the romance? “Not in so many words. But you can bet that we heard about it on the grapevine.” Right now Marion is excited about her night club work. “It’s taught me more than I learned in the last 10 years.” But she yearns to become a Hollywood star because “I was there two years and couldn’t get anybody even to listen to me.” Marion, then 15, worked in a ham¬ burger stand and as a car-hop at a drive-in restaurant, finally landed a job in the chorus at a night club, where Cecil Landeau, a British pro¬ ducer, spotted her. He signed her for a London review, “Sauce Tartare.” Marion worked in London for 18 months. But she had an aversion to British food and British water. And if that weren’t enough, she slipped on stage one night during an African jungle number and fractured her leg. “So I took the next boat home to Mama, complete with food poisoning, water poisoning and a broken leg. “What I’d like to do most now is to succeed in Hollywood. I’d also like to do a Broadway show. I want to do as much as I possibly can. I think I’m a very lucky girl that all this happened to me.” What “all this” means, she doesn’t say. Next Week: The Mariners 15