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me, represented the theater. Everything that he did delighted me. His comedies delighted me and his humor delighted me. He was such fun to be with. Moss took it upon himself to be the host of every party that he went to and he succeeded too. He was so infectiously gay.

What would you do when he went into one of those terrible depressions?

I nor anybody else could do anything with him. We'd sit there and reason with him and he'd say, “I know. You don't have to tell me these things. I know that there's no reason for it, but it's coming. I feel it coming and that's all there is to it.”

He bought a great big place down in Bucks County. Moss was always being hoodwinked because he always thought that people were doing him a favor to sell him things. He never bargained with them. Beatrice used to try to take care of him. We all tried. It didn't make any difference. He was making money so fast. He bought this place in Bucks County right near the Kaufman's and immediately began planting trees and changing the scenery. That's where Alex woollcott, now a great friend of Moss', pulled that famous line. When he saw all of the trees that Moss had put in there, he said, “This is just to show you what God could have done if he only had had money.”

Anyway, Moss finally married. He found the girl he