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originally Mr. Liveright's business, and this is the way he ended up.

Incidentally, when he was really quite close to the end of his string, Liveright married a girl named Elise Bartlett. She was a beautiful girl--a wild, beautiful girl who had been married to young Joe Schildkraut, the actor. Liveright married her, I think, in Newark. He was then living at an apartment called the Middletown--148 East 48th Street. It's still there, a residential hotel. And there was a reception after the wedding in his apartment about six o'clock in the evening which was dotted with famous people who still had an affection for him, because as adversity hit him he became a much nicer man. He thrived on adversity. As you see, I had deep love for this man. He played a very important part in my life, and I'm very grateful to him.

He was always kind really, basically.

He was kind to me.

Well, his wedding party was quite a wild one because there was a lot of liquor, and Arthur Garfield Hayes, his lawyer who had tried to prevent his selling the Modern Library to me, on his way there encountered a German street band on Third Avenue.

They still have them there.