Dein Weib WEILL IN NEW CITY TO LENYA IN DES MOINES, IOWA, MAY Friday, May , Darling, Weve had rain for two days, and we needed it badly. But today was a nice day. I went for a ride with Max and Terry and mowed the lawn in die afternoon. There is a complete standstill again in all my enterprises. That nice trio SamAlfredLynn continue to behave in the strangest way. I didnt hear a word from them. Sam didnt send me the script of the revisions. No word of reaction to the negro audition. Wednesday evening Dornrdschen called up which is, as you know, a rare event. He stammered something that everything is settled and they had worked out a statement. I smelled a rat and asked what they had announced about me. He said he didnt know. Next morning it was in all papers .. . “incidental music by K.W.” At Jules came back from town. He said Lynn had asked her maid who is a friend of Jules if Jules would pack Alfreds luggage I am sure they are trying to get Jules away from us. Jules went there at a.m. and Alfred sent a message through Jules !!! how sorry he was that he couldnt see me before leaving and he would write me a letter. Later I called Bill Fields and asked how it got into the papers without asking me and why they used the expression “incidental music.” He spilled die whole soup: Sam was afraid that people would think it is a musical and insisted on “incidental music.” I think my original impression was the right one: Sam is the one who is working against the music, partly because he is afraid of it, partly because he doesnt want to pay. Well, he wont get away with it. I will force an issue and I am not afraid of a possible break with Sam ? lenya on the road: Copyrighted material because, if he is afraid of music in this little comedy, he certainly would never do a real musical with me. The whole thing is deeply disgusting, and I have the feeling that I am wasting away my time with those little unimportant quarrels instead of doing something really worthwhile. I am in the mood to throw away all this show business and get a real war job or join the army or go into a factory.