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Pacific for one percent, or about $3,000, and, of course, this gave me the idea thatone could not lose in the theater. However, I have lost $60,000 in the theater by backing shows that were suggested to me largely by Roger Stevens and some by Dore Schary. But the ones I have been successful in since South Pacific are The King and I, by Rodgers and Hammerstein who kindly let me in after South Pacific but after that they didn't need any outside investors. And then I backed a play that I think they had something to do in backing called The Happy Time by Sam Taylor, who is now a friend of mine. And then I backed a show with Irene Selznick called Bell, Book and Candle. These were all for small amounts of money, from two to three or four thousand dollars, no large quantities of money. AndWest Side Story, through Roger Stevens and Mary, Mary through Roger Stevens, and Man of All Seasons, this last year, which is a Stevens production.

The ones that I've lost at I don't even enumerate. I can't even remember their names. So, I've not been any major factor in the theater; I've been a very small angel, and I really should stop putting any money into it at all.

The opera I think I have more pleasure and made a greater contribution in, because at least I got Behrman, who is one of the greatest set designers and costume designers, the greatest of our times, I think, other than Beaton for certain kinds of things, I really made it mandatory that he be the one for Don Giovanni and it really is a work of art.