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at this meeting because George always scared me a little bit. He was a fine man but a savage with and he would make people nervous by his sarcastic comments. All the way down to Buck's County with George and Beatrice Kaufman...

I told you how Beatrice had been important to me and always was because I was one of her “boys.” She always watched out for you young proteges.

And they hadn't met Phyllis yet.

They hadn't met Phyllis yet. This was before we were married.

We went down there and all the way down I kept warning her, “Now, don't be too scared of George Kaufman.” We got there and George was waiting at the portico as we drove up. He heard us coming up the roadway. Phyllis got out of the car, and George said, “So this is Phyllis.” He held his arms out and Phyllis walked right into them. In ten minutes, she was less scared of him than I had been all of my life. Beatrice loved her, too.

Beatrice had at that time a position which is something akin to Phyllis‘today. People came to Beatrice with their troubles as today our friends come to Phyllis with their troubles. They come to her because she's interested in people, which is the way that Beatrice used to be.

Phyllis met at the Kaufmans that day a man who has played a very important part in our lives-- Mr. Moss Hart. He lived