Aug 13 Thursday

Sold Lawrence Mss [Manuscript] for £1000 (£884 clear).
Mad day at Denham Studios. Korda sent car. Watched Rembrandt1 being filmed: only Laughton & Elsa Lanchester on set. Same passage 8 times or so. Laughton discussed Claudius. Korda promised money, sen[RG] wanted to send car for Laura, wanted to give Jenny a part. Saw Vincent the decor job[RG] chap who wanted to be an artist again. So did Laughton. Mad restaurant meal filled with costumes of Elizabethan film, Swedish police & Russian refugees, English waiters etc. Vivian Leigh supplying dirty rhymes.
×××× [indecipherable] Evening, after tea at Barbillion's, spent with Harry Kemp and Sterling the osteopath (at Cafe Royale) just going back to Spain with Friends' Ambulance2 .

Editorial Notes

1a film directed by Alexander Korda. eds (RPG 248).
2Friend's Ambulance Unit attached to the 16th French Infantry Division eds.