3.The most insulting trick of all tho, was a camp scene with a gloomy sky with a pale mysterious light at the horizon. Soldiers moving about the camp-fire cast a huge grotesque shadows on the sky! The effect was devastating.
     We had to sit so far back that it was an effort for me to focus my eyes on the screen, so that today my eyes ache & I feel irritable. I could have sat in the loge, but I did not feel we could all afford seats there; and when Arthur & Sally grabbed my hands and claimed the privilege of sitting next to me, I had not the heart to sit anywhere but with them.
     Going into town, in the fields at the west end of the Viaduct and to the north we saw hundreds of crows feeding.
     A new bitter wind out of the east today, which seems to promise snow or rain.
                                                                      February 12, 1938-
     Under Louisiana St. bridge starting another painting of some old houses seen through the roman arches. Unable to concentrate, partly because I was tired, and partly an account of the numerous curious children. One girl in particular annoyed me terribly; I would rather have 50 boys