Evening star., 1941-04-05
The Coming
Tower
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN
SAMUEL PEPYS.
Saturday, March 20.

CPb anu lldu DItdkldoL WIFI fdul
Wing and Jno. Seymour and Alan
Bunce, and thenafter we all in BIS
petrol chariot, which was coming for
the purpose of conveying me To my
home, and we well on our way when
Bunce must needs shew us his Stam-
ford house and then had some cof-
fee breWed, albeit it was past noon,
when l had vowed to all I would be
home. But, quoth 1, there is scant
avail in weeping over split coffee,
and did reach home a bare two
hours late. So worked a little, and
then TO j. Eeifetz's for dinner. which
was the sort of dinner which if We
had at home l should never 90 out.
So later went TO go and was as
founded that the snow had fallen,
and so deep that my wife bade me
60 10 get her galoSheS, which l did,
falling down in the snow only twice
on the way to get them. So home
IN the snowstorm and the trees
looked TO be full of beauty. but I
had hefer see them leafy, said but
WIN apparent lnaudlblllty.
Sunday, March 30.
Walked at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing in the bright sunshine, and most
OF yeSternights snow already van-
ished, nor do I want to see another
fake till next Thanksgiving night
So, after lunch I took Anthony 10
the cinema, and fell TO laughing,
both Of US, at the antics and the talk
Of William Claude Fields; and saw
also Chad Hanna" but I liked the
book far better. Lord! even when a
book is a great seller. wonder how
many more thousands of persons
see the cinema version than read the
book, and I am certain that most
OF those who see such a picture
don't even know it once was a book,
and would bet it was that way with
Gone With the Wind" too. For.
thousands Of persons can tell that
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh played
in it who cannot tell you who Mar
garet Mitchell is. A fortnight from
today will be Easter. and as Oscar
Howard says on the first of MAY.
/ Lord! first thing you know it'll he
winter again.
Monday, March 81.
Early up. and to the city by train.
and each day 1 am glad to know
that I was not dreaming about
Yugoslavia's resistance, for as much
as we are so Injured to bad news
| that the good seems hard to believe.
/ But there seemeth also little doubt
/ that Mussolini hath shot his bolt.
I and that neither he nor his army
had another bolt to their backs.
HAPPY his land will soon be known
/ as Hitlery All day at work, and so
| home for supper, and had a merry
evening Of it in conversation with
my daughter and her brothers, and
I to bed before 10. and read MY
/ Sister and l." which Tim tells me
is good, in which he eXaggerates
not at all.
Tuesday, April |.
! Lay long, waiting until the omni-
Gus had taken the children to school.
in order to avoid being April fooled
by them, and then regretted my
| selfshness in escaping from their
pranks So met R. Irwin, and with
him to the city, and had much
amiable conversation. So to the
lost property room, having had q
postal card that my Hilton Head"
had been found. but they were un-
able to give it to me- but I found
my In This Our Life" which I
had lost on Washingtons Birthday.
So to do some writing, and finished
my stint betimes, and so with N.
Anthony to see Watch on the
Rhine" the best and most moving
play I have ever seen, and toward
the close almost unbearably true,
and all as we'll acted as could be.
So stopped the night in the city,
alone and palely lettering.
Wednesday, April 2.
Up betimes and to the Office, and
read that the German and Italian
governments, albeit it is about time
to call it the German government,
protested the seizure Of the Italian
and German ships in our ports. the
seizure being not only legal, but SO
/ necessary that I thing it should
have been accomplished at least a
month ago. But thing the legality
is what Hitler does not like, fore
asmuch as If we lied and cheated
he would probably send us a note
saying. that's more like it." So met
my wife on the train, and drove
her home, and after having seer
the play last night, was gladder
than usual to see the children. So
to bed, reading in I'm This Our
Life" until midnight, amazed for
the tenth time at the unfailing
vigor. wit, and compassion Of Ellen
Glasgow.
Thursday, April 3.
To the village to catch up some
letters, and also the New Haven Roa q
had found my Hilton Head" which
they sent me. So had a talk with
Mr.. Boyd the conductor, very pleas
ant, and so to work for the whole
day, save for some gay conversation
with P. Tierney and some Of his
preSsman friends. So had dinner
with Burns Mantle, and we had talk
of days in Chicago and of the days
when he was writing of the theater
for the Inter Ocean, and also of
our quondam physician, Dudley Con-
ley, who he tells me is dean of medi-
cine at the University of Missouri.
So cue-tilted with r. Hofmann until
after II, and so to bed, and fell
asleep forthwith.
Friday, April 4.
Finished my stint early and
voticks auay from the office.