Wednesday, June 3, 1964
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A diary entry written by Patience Cleveland that discusses her acting career, her book, “The Lion is Busy,” and her personal life. The entry is dated June 3, 1964 and is written on white, lined paper in black ink.
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Got a little more done today than recently about desk etc. Peter cleaned the house. The vitamins + yeast + cron may help. Drank metrecal for lunch. Check came from Schnikzer Agency for $179 + something-had just made out commission ($21) for Jack Donaldson when he called + told me-surprise of all surprises that I have a call back from the Folgers Coffee on Friday at 3 o’clock-”semi-finals”-you coulda knocked me over with a-blah blah. Also said he wanted me + Dick to come in + sign our contracts. Called Dick but couldn’t get him. Called Maxine Anderson’s office to find out which wife I was called back for and it’s the older one-She told me my only difficulty was that I “fall just in between-age-wise” Said it depended how they planned to go with the younger couple. But I was “such a good actress”-blah blah. Strange are the ways. Peter went to the bank + deposited my check in my checking account + another $110.00 from Lyle (made out to “Patsy Cleveland-bad loan payment”.) went into our savings which is now almost $600.00! We left the house about 3:30-went to the stamp store to buy more corner blocks and ended up not only buying corner blocks but a whole album of U.S. stamps and United Nations-for $60.00-total purchase was $79.00 which I considered Daddy’s birthday present. Such fun. Next stop Jack Donaldson’s to sign contracts-they need more pictures of me. Judy said she thought the Wheat Chex was going to make alot of money. Also I may have an appointment tomorrow. Pleasant interlude-then we went to the camera shop to leave off some film-next stop Burlington Street-our house-terrible mess. Rod in the middle of packing. Not there. Looked around + came home. Went over our stamp purchases. Really quite stunning. Richard called told him about contracts-he’s very upset-doesn’t want to sign. Had another call from New York about “Yum Yum Tree”-Jack Donaldson had told him last night that Maxine Anderson had told him that Richard was too “faggy” for the Wheat Chex commercial. Oh dear + Dick hadn’t even met her. Explained who she was + that made him feel better as there’d been some clowning around with Bobby Frye + Mike Keith in the hall that could have gone covered it. Dick went on to say that he’d never gotten anything through any agent-blah blah-the old cry-But I don’t think he sees the situation here clearly. Peter + I went out for Chinese dinner + came back to find Dick here watching “Once upon a Mattress” Good show. Played cards after. He brought Peter script of Erdman Play-
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