it was solid cement here, & I could not anchor my easel with spikes as I usually do. I had brought along five large stones for this purpose; so that setting up my outfit was rather a long winded affair. The inane look of mystification on the face of this man was so comical I could hardly keep from laughing. Finally he could stand it no longer & had to ask me what I was doing. When I told him, he was content and went away.
It was fine working here, secure from the rain, which came down violently at times.
                                                                      February 11, 1938-
     All of us to the movie “The Buccaneer” last evening. De Mille, who directed it, had no sense of reality - he used the elaborate fantasy touch at the wrong places; just a few examples.
     1. A scuttled ship, set afire, was too obviously a toy ship, and over a prolonged scene, glimpses of it showed it always at the same stage of burning.
      2. The pirates being bombarded by the U.S. ships. Altho it showed dozens of the pirates being shot to pieces, yet later when these same pirates were coming to the aid of Jackson against the British, they not only were all miraculously healed but greatly increased in number. They marched to battle like triumphal High school students, after a football game, singing Yankee Doodle!