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into deep, deep depressions; and he spent years and a fortune on psychoanalysis. He was always under analysis. When he felt one of these depressions coming on, he couldn't do anything about it. At first they might have been justified, but as he went on from one success to another there was no apparent reason for him to be despondent. But when they hit him he could do nothing about them; and when they were on, he was in a terrible state.

The whole story is told in Moss‘Act I, the full story of these early days.

Beatrice Kaufman, George's wonderful wife, took Moss in hand right at the start and introduced him to all of her famous friends, as she had done with me years earlier. They all came to love Moss. When there was a strike on Broadway, for instance, between the actors and the playwrights and the owners, fighting over terms and whatnot, all of the theaters closed for a few days. There was only one man whom everybody trusted. That was Moss Hart. Moss Hart settled that strike all by himself because everybody had complete faith in him. I guess that he was the most powerful man in the theater.

Then of course he did Lady in the Dark and discovered Danny Kaye--and, oh, had one success after another.

And you say that you were such good friends. Would you just enjoy each other's company and then laugh together?

Yes. Remember that I loved the theater and Moss, to