April 13, 1941: Stocking buyers to whom I have talked believe there is only about a two-month supply of raw silk in the country. That would seem to be the tipoff to buy. In a couple of months it seems inevitable there will be a shortage and a skyrocketing of prices, Tom Treanor says. 

I've never known anyone who enjoyed depreciating his own talents as much as Spencer Tracy, Jimmie Fidler says.

April 11, 1941: These soldier boys sneer a little when they read of strikes in war industries. My lad is on duty for a 12-hour shift, apparently. The first four months of his soldiering he got $21 a month, then got $30 and now, as a private first class with a rating, gets $36. The boys don't mind doing that — for Uncle Sam — but they can't figure out how a lot of fellows of their age and educational background, or less, feel they have a right to strike when they're getting $40 a week for an eight-hour day, with time and a half for overtime, Lee Shippey says.
 
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNIQUE TO Martha Raye: So you're returning to pictures, and after all those nasty remarks you made about Hollywood, too. Some people would be embarrassed.

April 10, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the wildflower fields of Kern County. “Now I have seen them and I know that until one has seen them one cannot comprehend what California's spring wildflower show is like,” he says, never tipping off the reader that he had been blind for years. He once said: "I never saw humanity clearly until I lost my sight."

Tom Treanor visits a factory that makes women’s shoes….

A consensus of cameramen listed Marlene Dietrich as the most easily photographed star, Norma Shearer as the most difficult, Jimmie Fidler says.