July 27 Sunday We stayed home all day as it rained intermittently. Mollie and Sam joined us in the late afternoon. We had a delicatessen supper and watched television all day. Earlier Sylvia had beaten me and Sam in shooting checkers closest to the edge of a table.
July 28 We had quite a hassle with Sylvia over her consistent failure to comply with any requests of ours willingly. ... We then went out to St James where I split with Al Berman. King Farouk of Egypt abdicated due to army pressure. Evita Peron is dead at 33.
July 29 Sylvia drew "The Barkingtons" Robin Palmer, "Susan's Year" S.J. Johnson, "Over the Big Hill" M.H. Lovelace and "Three Little Chinese Girls" - E.F. Lattimore. We went downtown intending to go to the Roxy but got off on 44th st and saw "South Pacific", "The King and I" and "Pal Joey" staring us in the face. Much to our surprise we were able to get $1.20 tickets for tomorrow matinee. We decided not to go to a movie but had hot dogs and soda then spent some time in an amusement arcade. Sen McMahon is dead at 48. Lillian read "The Thousand Deaths of Mr Small". We both read "The Magic Curtain" - L. Langner.
July 30 We went to see the delightful "South Pacific" with George Britten and Martha Enright as the leads. Also Juanita Hall, Billy Tabbert and Myron McCormick. Sylvia was only mildly interested.
I don't remember it, but this was the original Broadway production, although the two leads had been replaced.
July 31 I beat Freddy Katz in the morning. We spent the afternoon in the park. At night Sam Mencher came over for an evening of pleasant conversation. Prison sentences were handed out to Imperial Wizard Hamilton and sixty-two other Klan floggers in an unprecedented mass trial of this kind in the South.
Aug 1 Played a little tennis today. Sylvia went to Tibbett's with Mrs. Pachman and Marlene. They went by car both ways. Afterwards the two girls played here and downstairs.
Aug 2 Mom and pop over for dinner and farewell before their month vacation. They will travel to Canada and then come back to the mountains to stay at a hotel. Lillian made gefilte fish and blintzes but the blintzes did not jell. Mom and pop then went out to Lil and Harry's.
My father started a "diary" in 1945 (more accurately, a journal, covering both family and current events), and I'm going to see if this is a decent way to publish it. Since I'm doing it as a blog, to get to the beginning of the journal, you have to go to the beginning of the blog.
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