June 19 Saturday.

To Denham: saw Korda.
May make Claudius next year without Laughton: complained bitterly of him & his intellectualism. It was a[RG] ×××× [indecipherable] worse with Sternberg, who did not humour him.
Contract for the Margaret Catchpole modern film, for L & me. £100 & £750 more if accepted.[RG]
Lunch with Vincent & Zoltan, & back in train with Adrian Brunal.
Chicken & strawberry supper with Alix & Harry.
Fall of[RG] Bilbao again
reported fallen
This time it
has
* This was the day Gelat was freed, we heard the news on the Thursday.