Evening star., 1946-12-01
She Is Glad Her Dreams Didn't Come True
For Olivia Havand Planned Be Old Maid Until Marcus
Goodrich Came Along and Married Her
By SheiIoh Grohom

HOLLYWOOD.
sI'd like to have II children" /" said
Olivia de Hayilland.
I'D like to meet that girl" said
Marcus Goodrich. That was five
years ago at party given by Pro-
ducer Arthur Horrblow. Now Olivia
De Havilland is Mrs. Marcus Good
rich.
"And I've taken rain check on
the II children" says Mr.. Good
rich at the apartment he and
Olivia share in Hollywood. To be
truthful, it's Olivia's bachelcr-girl
apartment at the Shoreham, owned
by Director Mitchell Leiserl. It's
very fancy and decorated in dusty
pink, but it's very small.
ut will have to do for while,
says Goodrich firmly, and from the
set Of his Jaw you know he Is the
boss of the family. It seems that
neither Marcus nor Olivia wants to
pay inflated prices for house to-
day. :.
Goodrich, the author Of 'Delilah," )"
is 48 years old and has been mar
Iried several times before. Olivia Is
80 years old and never was married
before.
"AlI Her Fault"
Olivia, wrapping an eiderdown
around her, for she's had bad
cold, says, IT was quite sure want
ed to be an old maid. Or rather,
I'd resigned myself to that. I
thought I'd like to be like Maude
Adams and spend my later years
teaching the drama in a university.
It was pretty picture. And I'm
glad it didn't come OF"
"Why didn't you marry five years
ago when you first met" ask
the yery-much-in-love couple.
,"It's all her fault" says Good
rich decisively. after that first
time, ! called her three times and
she was out. So I decided she
didn't like me-"
"It,s not true" says Olivia with
slight giggle. you just didn't
pursue me hard enough-that's all.
Besides, I'd heard you were a devil
with women"
When Olivia went to New York In
the summer-and I always have
said that travel is the only way TO
find q husband-her friend and
drama coach, Phyllis Laughton, wife
Of Director George Seaton, called
I'D her old friend, Marcus Goodrich.
She asked him over to meet Olivia
who was about ready to open in
Westport, Conn.,, in What Every
Woman Knows"
Wed In Three Weeks.
Marcus came over at TO-" says
Olivia. with q starry look on her
face, despite the cold. "And he
stayed until in the morning, tell
ing stories and making us laugh"
Three weeks later they were mar
ried. But not until / had told
Marcus the story of my life one
evening when we had fiat tire and
were driving back to New York
from Easthampton," says Livy.
While he was fixing the car, but lis
tening, Mr.. Goodrich solemnly told
his future bride that girl with
her nervous system should marry
businessman. Yes, businessman
was what Olivia wanted, even If she
didn't know it. And on no account
was she to marry writer.
And everything that Marcus said
to me made such sense" I am told
by the pretty Mrs. Goodrich, that
/ said, OF course. must marry a
businessman So when he proposed,
it took me three days to adjust my
self to the idea of marrying a
writer" And it took Olivia rs hours,
she says, to adjust herself to the
idea Of retaining the word "obey" in
the marriage ceremony
Mexican Intruder.
Every one thinks / insisted on
having the, word obey says Olivia
indignantly. 81 didn tit was Mar
Gus. But after thinking it over, I
knew that since I loved and re-
spected him, I'd obey him anyway.
So what difference did it maker" It
doesn't seem to have made any
difference and there is every indica-
ton that Olivia Is divinely happy as
a married woman.
"It's so wonderful having some
one to talk things over with" she
tells me, "and it's fine to think about
his work, too" But with regard to
the latter there was the small mat
ter of Mexican lady for Olivia to
swallow first.
Marcus had photograph Of a
beautiful Mexican woman on his
desk" says Mrs. Goodrich. Mr..
Goodrich roars with laughter.
4I was jealous and wanted him to
throw it away" says Livy, "but he