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but it's ugly. I mean, the old man Rockefeller's place.

This also had a small movie house which I thought was enchanting.

I left the Fairbanks and spent a night at Albert Lasker's with him and one of his children before I went to San Francisco.

How were your business enterprises flourishing?

Well, my business enterprises were flourishing, were perfectly all right, curiously enough. The patterns were selling and what I was doing in other areas was all right, and this was a kind of summer vacation for me. I went to San Francisco for the fair, which was very attractive, and while I was there Albert telephoned me and said he was very tired and worn out and he was going to go to a ranch in Arizona, and a friend of his sent a plane to take him to this ranch, and he had a nurse with him. He was...

In a state of nervous exhaustion?

A state of nervous exhaustion.

Well, he finally returned in November of '39, and I saw him frequently, and I once went to a ballet designed by Dali, which was called “Bacchanal,” which I don't think has been given