April 19: Hankow. A bout the sequence on huang front. This is the tually successful attack on the Japanese in this whole war. The first success of the heroic Chinese Army This is very important. I don't know yet how to use this sequence in the dim as a whole. It can be used as 1 story of a soldier who fought in this battle, or as a story of a peasant from the district. Or it might be used for commentary. Everything is possible. You can be sure that I will bring it ánto organic relationship with the film as a whole.
I talked about the manuscript with many Hollywood people, among whom ere Messrs. Dashiell Hammett, Dudley Nichols and Jack Lawson. AN kad the opinion that I had to stick closer to today's life. That is what everybody expects when a group of bir people go to China in a war situation, because people don't want to see then a picture which could be made in Hollywood, for one-third at least, of course with much higher expense. But they want a picture linked up with the present and the war.
April 30: Chenchow. I sent via the Netherlands Consul in Hongkong one case containing seven cans with 34 reels, making 6,340 feet exposed, but At the Jessfield Club One of the lesser known—but very popular—features of the Jessfield Club is a cozy bar combined with a cocktail lounge and a miniature dance floor. The bar adjoins the night club proper as does the smaller dance floor and thus the delightful musie played by orchestra is heard well enough to dance to. Three pretty hostesses serve the drinks at the bar, The Jessfield Club specializes in entertainment and novelties. It is the only night club which features an orchestra with two expert piano players whose duets are becoming extremely popular. The pianists, Ed Boder and George Roth, are well-versed both in classical and modern music and are proud of the fact that they can play almost every possible request for tunes, no matter whether old or new. Johnny Bulmer, American musician, helps by playing the drums and staging humorous skits.
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