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AUGUST  Sunday, Aug. ,  Good morning, my honey chil. How are you today? I had worked so hard these last days that I was terribly tired yesterday and went early to bed, had a wonderful schleep until  and feel fine and dandy now. We finished the Dukes entrance song yesterday which, I think, will rank next to any Offenbach or Guilbert Sullivan song of that type. We still havent got the right idea for the Duchess song. We got cold feet on the idea “Great men make bad lovers.” We started two songs for the garden scene: a madrigal for Angela and the girls with the title “The little naked boy” Cupid, you stupid, and a duet for the Duke and Angela where he always mixes up words like: Duke: Come with me to that nozy cook. Angela: My lord, you mean that cozy nook. I have straightened out some important story problems this week, but we are having troubles with Eddiethe same old playwright troubles. He is so confused, and I have to remind him all the time of things he forgot from one meeting to another. He is so used working for the movies that he always thinks in terms of lines instead of scenes. Ira, more than I, is worried that the comedy might be a little dated, but that probably comes more from Lee who doesnt like what she calls sex comedy probably because she hasnt got anything where other people have sex. Y    esterday I spent  hours at the studio. They were recording “It happened to happen to me” “All at Once” with Joan Leslie who will be lovely in the part, and then I saw a rehearsal of the opening number “Morale” and the Hessian Drinking Song “The Song of the Rhineland”. It looks terrific, real big production scenes, done with great taste and gusto, and the music comes out bcutifully. If it works out the way it  ? new city, hollywood:  Copyrighted material looks now, it will be a very important picture and a great thing for me. I am amazed how carefully they work. Every bar is worked out to the minutest detail. Yesterday they had a two hours debate about the interpretauon of one line, with an orchester of  men waiting. Of course, they have no tryout and no two weeks out of town to straighten out things, so they have to do right then and there.

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