Primarily documents Mary Haynsworth Mathews's experiences overseas in the Red Cross during World War II and her career in the theater. Mathews discusses living with her extended family as a child; theater opportunities in high school; being involved in drama departments at Winthrop College and the University of North Carolina; performing with Michael Chekov's troupe in the late 1930s and early 1940s; and working with Yul Brynner after World War II. " Mathews comments on her mother's involvement with the Red Cross; dancing with young soldiers at Camp Croft in Spartanburg, South Carolina; and her decision to join the Red Cross. She describes her club responsibilities while in Europe, including supervising the day-to-day operations and serving donuts to returning pilots; wanting to work in a clubmobile near the front lines; jitterbugging with soldiers in Le Havre, France; interactions with wounded soldiers; her living arrangements overseas; her admiration of President Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt; the somber quality of V-E Day; celebrations in Le Havre; being stationed at the same base as actor Robert Preston and later meeting him on Broadway; a Red Cross friend; washing uniforms in gasoline and living in a building with no roof in France; and the death of Red Cross worker Elizabeth Richardson in a plane crash in France. Mathews also provides her opinion of women in combat positions. " Mathews briefly speaks about her career in the theater after the war and living in New York with her husband, actor George Mathews.