Authors

Mary Metcalfe

Document Type

Personal Letter

Transcription

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(This is a V-Mail (Victory Mail) on microfilm to cut down size and weight)

Jan. 19, 1944

Dearest Mommie,

Well here we are still waiting to get our Clubmobile assignments. In the next couple of days we shall have our Doughnut & coffee instruction + then we hope to start our job.

Here are a couple of notes of interest. Carole Lombard (1) was Sally Peter’s first cousin. You know her real name was Jane Peters. I think I told you that Kay Harris was one of the girls in the same room with me in New York. I just discovered that she played “Tillie” in “Tiller the Toiler.” (2) I wish I could remember the picture better. Today I ran into Claire Mustadt who was in the same rooms with us at the Blackstone in Washington. The only St. Louis person I have run across is Bill Mucherman, whom I didn’t know before but is one of the many St. Louis Muchermans.

We are still thinking up any possible excuse to stay out of our rooms. It takes me about 5 minutes to decide to take off my clothes to go to bed. The other girls in the room at the moment are Sally, Marjorie Williams from Barrington Heights, Mass., Betty Hansard from Arkansas, Marilyn Watson from Los Angeles, + Betty Jane Thomas from I don’t know where. They are all Clubmobile.

We are rapidly getting into the same custom they have over here of eating. We have breakfast, morning coffee, lunch, tea and dinner. We are becoming so accustomed to this we are hungry all the time + almost eat ourselves to death.

Sally + I had dinner with a school friend of her who is married to an Englishman who is in the R.A.F. The three of us had dinner in her flat (apartment to us) and it was wonderful. The food was so good and it was so nice to be in a home. The girl’s name was Judy Petley, a very attractive girl. She and Sally were at Georgetown Visitation Central together.

Here’s hoping letters, bed roll, + footlocker will all arrive one of these days. Lots + lots of love,

Chichi

(1) Carole Lombard was an actress in romantic screwball comedies in the 1930’s.

(2) Tillie the Toiler was a movie released in 1941 based on a comic book character

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