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GERSHWIN, GEORGE. Typed letter signed twice ("George," and "George (again)") to George Pallay in San Francisco; New York, 30 July 1931. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, on Gershwin's personal imprinted stationery, unobtrusive stain in lower left-hand corners, second leaf with small separation along one. A fine, chatty letter, rich with news: "...I just got back from a very pleasant week end...down at Belmarr. I played a lot of golf....It has been hotter than hell here...However, I have got to start putting on some steam as the shows will have to be written soon, and I am playing the second movement of my Concerto with Walter Damrosch over the radio on Sunday. This is on a short wave length for...broadcast to Germany. On the following Sunday, I am playing the RHAPSODY IN BLUE at the Stadium on an all-American program....I have the first act of the Kaufman show that we are doing the music for and, although it is highly satirical, it has a lot of laughs in it. There are to be very few songs in the show...The rest will all be ensemble singing. I don't know how it will work out but, at least, it will be different....Winnie Sheehan callled me from California the other day, to tell me that my picture is to be started on August twentieth....I would love to come out as I am more than anxious to have a hand in the making of DELICIOUS. I hope to heaven that the picture will be made right and will prove a big hit. There is nothing that would please me more than to come out to California next year to do another musical picture....I got a cable from London yesterday that read...'An American In Paris great success'...signed [Alfred] Casella. He is the man who conducted my piece at the International Festival of Music and I am glad to know that it went well...." Gershwin goes on to speak of Depression hardships, a mutual friend and a biography of himself, which "will be out around my birthday."