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A hundred dollars was a big price for a story in those days. I knew Miss Cather. She was a great friend of Miss Roseboro's and I used to see her at Miss Roseboro's house. By the time I knew her Miss Roseboro was olding and a woman who was wearing herself out. She was burning herself up, but she was devoted to her friends. She was always bringing her friends together, or asking them to go with her to the Metropolitan to look at that Chinese bed. “You and I and Miss Cather will go and look at the Chinese bed.” That was all she wanted to see that day - the Chinese bed. It was a wonderful one. It was full of intricacies and decorations. The whole history of the civilization of China was in it. To go with Miss Roseboro was just a great experience because she felt it all and understood the whole of the background. She just wanted to go and worship a bit at something that was very beautiful.

Collier's was just starting up and Success Magazine was quite a brilliant affair. It was a newcomer in the field and it lasted quite a long time. I don't know when it folded. Another person who worked on Success Magazine and who Miss Roseboro encouraged as did Brubaker and Merwin was a girl named Sonia Levine who is now chief script writer and editor for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She's had that post for a good many years. She wrote the script for Quo Vadis. When everybody else failed at it, Sonia Levine took it over. She