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#74 Navy #3247 (Military Govt) FPO San Francisco Saturday 16 December 1944 Mornin' darling- It's raining cats and dogs here (with 15-minute intervals of light drizzle) and going to chow this morning was a matter of island-hopping. If this is the dry season (and I'm told that, though it didn't rain any harder than this formerly, it rained so much of the time that it never dried on the ground) then I begin to appreciate tropical rains. After taking another look at my currently-in-use pajamas this morning I just couldn't send them back to you. The laundry does get things reasonably clean, even if they stain gradually without being bleached, and I do take a shower every day or at least every other, but it's impossible to keep mud from getting all over everything, especially in weather like this. I change both sheets every week on Sunday, and by today they’re dirtier than I’d get them at home if I didn't change them for six weeks - literally. The dampness has a lot to do with that. I have a light blue counterpane with a Navy monogram on it that was left by one of my predecessors - if it weren't for that the sheets would need changing every day. Story told by one of the interpreters who was here in the early phase when people were just coming out of the hills - a fairly comely lass expressed her gratitude [pg 2] at being rescued from the dangerous and uncomfortable existence she had been leading with “I’d do anything for you.” She repeated her blanket offer at subsequent meetings, and finally she said, “I’d do anything for you. When do we do it?” Sunday 17 Dec 7:30 am Morning, Sweetie Last night I jeeped with four other men to a very good show - “Rhapsody in Blue”- I wouldn't recommend that for you to see now simply because it's too long - has a great deal of Gershwin's music in it, including “An American in Paris,” the Concerto in F, the Rhapsody in Blue twice, parts of the Cuban Rhapsody, etc. in addition to snatches from all his musical comedies and from “Porgy and Bess.” It was a good screen biography of its kind, reasonably honest and without fanfare, covering a lot of factual detail. But the best feature was the music, together with the stage-set acts from various nostalgia-awakening musical comedies of the twenties and early thirties. There is one movie I wish you could see on its way around again, just because it's too good to miss: “Lady in the Dark,” which I saw in Washington and expect to see again tonight. It's one of those rare pictures I find myself wanting to share the memory of with you: when I'm writing a letter I start to say - “Remember how…?” or “It reminded me of that set (incident, situation) in Lady in the Dark” - and then realize you didn't see it. Not that anything out here reminds me of L. in the D., unless it's something I read or dream. That's just it - I do. (Expect to get my next typed letter off tomorrow night). I love you Warren
