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152 [Mislabeled] Navy #3247 (Mil. Govt) FPO San Francisco Sunday June 17 1945, 9:15 pm My dearest darling I've spent the whole day from forenoon till just now taking around two script writers from Hollywood who aren't doing anything in particular (by way of story or article) with the experience, but of whom one will probably incorporate it into a novel he expects to write in a few months. That one - Dalton Trumbo - is the author and scenario writer of “Johnny Got His Gun” and “The Remarkable Andrew,” the script writes for the movies “Kitty Foyle,” “A Guy Named Joe” and “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Has a new movie for which he adapted the novel coming out - “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes,” the story of life on a Wisconsin farm. He also wrote [Stettinus’?] recent report on the San Francisco Conference. The other, Herbert Lewis, is the author of the novels “Gentlemen Overboard” (Trumbo calls it damn fine writing) - “Spring Offensive” and “Season's Greetings”; the original scripts for the movies “Don Juan Quilligan,” due to [pg 2] be released about now, and “Ladies’ Choice,” due sometime next year. I learned those details only tonight. I think they thoroly enjoyed seeing the camp. They loved the children (each has two) and watched them closely everywhere we went. Tonight we spent an hour and a half at the Japanese play, which fascinated them. (They’re really on a tour of B-29 bases, and when they expressed a desire to see the camp instead of the base on this island, they were asked what in the world they wanted to see that stinking place for) I enjoyed the day myself because their fresh ideas and enthusiasm (they were not a couple of enthusiasts, but were curious about everything) gave me a new perspective. I hurry to bed because I must waken them at 5:45 in the morning. I won't be able to write then either, having a date to go out to the school farm at 6:30. I love you, darling - wish you were with me Warren
