Ate breakfast and lay on my bed all morning reading and trying to press a pair of pants under my blanket (mattress). Censored a few letters - just filled pen. For the past 3 days the PX has been out of cigarettes and the poor smokers are going wild trying to beg, borrow, or steal smokes - tsk tsk. Anyhow, today they finally got in some Pall Malls and declared an open sale so everyone took off for the PX - like a thundering herd in a cloud of dust. Slept this afternoon until the heat of the sun woke me. Got up and combed my now very short hair down and washed up a bit. In the evening about 6:30 Fish and I took a blanket and went to the movies which started about 9:00. We saw "Up In Mabel's Room," which was a hilarious comedy. It was the most entertaining funny picture I have seen in years. We all laughed until we cried. Dennis O'Keefe and Gail Patrick and Mischa Auer. At the nightly news report things sounded mighty encouraging with the Russians rolling and the Marines cleaning up in the Pacific and the Yanks only 40 miles out of Paris. Multo Bonno. Wrote a big long (?) letter to Adele - 5 pages - 2 lines.