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said to me last year (1951) when I saw her in California that she never was going to do anything like that again. She was now only going to do things that were easy. She wasn't going to kill herself for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer any more. She has been the script writer of some of the great things in Hollywood.

This is quite remarkable for so young a woman, but Sonia went to England and negotiated with George Bernard Shaw and maybe H. G. Wells for the first American publication. She was always a success. Whatever Sonia Levine touched was a success. She was the girl from whom I got such an amount of education because she was a speeder-up in a feather-duster factory when she was thirteen years old. When I met her, she was general handyman, having been a stenographer, at Success Magazine. She was filling out for everybody. She was awfully pretty and had an Irish look, although she was of Jewish extraction. They used to say, “Well, one of your ancestors got lost in Ireland.” She looked Irish. She had those lovely Irish eyes and had a charming look. She had a wonderful manner - a charming, disarming manner.

Success would send her out to interview aspiring authors who came in with their manuscripts or who came in because their manuscripts had been returned. Sonia would be sent out to interview them and pacify them because she could get on