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5 East 51 Street
New York, New York
April 18, 1938

Dear Hugh:

Your terribly nice long letter was cheerfully welcomed and recompensated me for your long silence. I had begun to be quite worried about you and was afraid that that old appendix of yours might have been kicking up. Now my mind is relieved and I am swallowing that one Easter egg peacefully. Of course, I understand how busy you must have been closing up everything in Palm Beach and that you are quite weary.

How glad I was to read that in spite of all the difficulties the winter at your club had proved to be a very successful one!! I am sure a few days at the farm will give you the much wanted and needed rest, and if you top it off with a fishing trip, there will be no holding you when you get back. You will be just exploding with vitality and energy. You must never, never, mention fishing trips and boats, as reading about them has a devastating effect upon me in my office. It is already bad enough that I have to leave all these marvelous things behind, and such temptations are torture. How much I would like to be with you on that little expedition! I am i-t-c-h-i-n-g all over to go. However, I am afraid I just have to let it itch!

Did I write you that I went to Philadelphia the other day and saw Clifton's show, which-frankly speaking--is fair. Clifton is not at all happy in it. He himself is very good, the music is nice, but nothing overwhelming, and there is no crack tune in it whatsoever. Everybody seems to be fighting in the show. Libby Holman is pathetic; the only good person is Lupe Velas but not at all for that part as she makes out of a very subtle part a rather vulgar burlesque, which shows again that the Shuberts never fail to wreck and ruin a thing whenever they can. I saw Clifton here last week who was, in spite of the annoyance of the show, in good form. He is off to Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Detroit, and I understand that the show is even going out ot San Francisco

[Signature]: GS