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CHAPTER I T H E MA K IN G OF STATESMEN
G n e f T as b y B com N Tim m on
T h e A u t o b iog ap h y o f S o l B l oom
CHAP TER II FAM ILY CIRCLES
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CHAPTER III T IM E MARCHES ON IN S O UTH E AST A FRI CA
Ju ng l M n by Major P "P t o ius
"u lu Wo m an by R eb e ca H o u rwi ch Reyh er
CHAPTER IV T o LEAD T HE IR OW N LIVES
n t in b y T h o m as Mert o n
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Jo h n G fi s Mi ll by G eo ge W oo db u ry
CHAPTER V IN LIGHTER VE I N
P t i k Ca ll Me M o t h by A nn B a ley
T h P a o n Ta k s a Wife b y Ma i a W i l li am s S h ee i n
CHAPTE R VI NE W E N GLAN D S H EYDAY
Na t h n i l H w t h o n b y Ma k Va n D o re n
H n y D i d Th o
u b y J o se p h W oo d Kru t ch
M m ee t h e Mo t h e f L i t t le Wo m n by S an d ford S alyer
CHAPT ER VI I T RAGI C PRI N CE ; PIAN OVIRTUOS O
R u dolp h t h T g dy f M ay lin g b y C o u n t C arl L o ny ay
H a o ld B u
H i B oo k b y H aro l d B au er
CHAPTER VIII BEHIN D T H E S CENES IN W ASHIN GT ON
W h in g ton B y L in e by B e Fu m an
Wh i te H o us D ia y by H e nri e t t a Ne bi tt
CHAP TER I" MEM ORABLE RE COLLECTI ON S
To l toy A I K n w H im by Tatyana A Ku zm i nsk aya
G e t u d S t in in P son by W G Rogers
CHAPTER " NE W YORK VARI ETY
B u J m es t h L ife a n d Ti m s of Ji m my Wa lk er by G e ne F ow l er
O ld M r F loo d b y J osep h Mi t ch el l
CHAPT ER "I T H E D RURY
Ga i k by Marga e t B a ton
S h idan h is L if an d h is Th a t e by Lewi s Gib bs
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CHAPTER I
MA KI N G O F S TAT E S ME N
J ohn Garner 1 8 69
8 01 Bl o om 1 8 7 0 1 94 9
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o f New York were originally sent fo r with the idea o f including in our
program s ometh ing about politician s especially at a time wh e n
world unrest has made us so much more conscious o f o ur Washington
legislators and th eir doings But the bo oks far from being routine
accounts o f politics and law making have proved to be most rewarding
Garner is S hown t o be a p atriot gifted with intelligence and integrity
Bl o om
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o f a high order
equally p atriotic and even more brilliant devote s nearly two thirds o f
his book to his li fe story u p to the age o f fi fty when h i s earnings
enabled him to retire fr om business and spend his li fe on the th ings
that gave him real enduring sati s faction He kids himsel f I wanted
to do something noble
Garner s story is told b y o ne o f his closest friends Bascom N T im
mons a veteran Washington Corresp o ndent and fellow T exan wh o fo r
years had received his co n fi de n ces and made detailed notes o f their
conversations He S kims over Garner s early days and success ful law
practice quickly bringing him to Wash ingto n wh ere he scaled the
Congressional ranks to become S p eaker o f the House acknowledged
by friends and foes as one o f the shrewdest p olitical strategists o f this
century It was a sacrifice fo r him t o move over to th e Senate fo r h e
considered the Vice President s job W h o lly unimportant and merely
that o f a gavel wielder It remained fo r him to disprove h is own con
tention and show that a skilled Vice President could both accelerate
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and manip ulate a S low moving Senate fo r i t s own good As long as
he agreed with the Roosevelt policies he backed them up with all his
s trength and infl uence When he felt that the New D eal was getting
out o f hand he withdrew from public li fe to lead an idyllic existence
on his U valde estate
Sol Bloom s Horati o Alger rags to riches career cann o t be s umma
riz e d in a few words
His A u to b io grap hy tells the story at length with
sel f insight and humor Perhap s the T im e M agaz in e o f March 1 4 1 94 9
gives the mo s t succinct account : D ied Sol Bloom 7 8 longtime chair
man o f the House Foreign Aff airs C ommittee D emocratic Re p re s enta
tive from New York s 20th (Manhattan) D istrict since 1 923 ; o f a h eart
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t ere d T ammany politics a f ter success fully retiring from the real estate
business at the age o f 50 Internationalist and ardent New D ealer
pince n eze d courtly Sol Bloom authored the revi s ed Neutrality Act o f
1 939 helped p ilot L end L ease through the House in 1 9 4 1 in 1 94 5 wa s
a delegate to the San Francisco Con ference tha t founded U N
T h e D u rh a m H era ld called him a sh owman who p racticed his art
most o f the time but wh o underneath his exhibitioni sm enshrined a
sense o f obligation and an ideal o f loyal serv ice that made h im a
trusted and resp ected member o f the Congress New York s 20th
D istrict is continuing the tradition o f a colorful R epresentativ e in it s
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would h e h a e m ade if el e ted i n 1 940?
2 T h e A u to b i g ap hy o f S o l B lo o m
C h ild o f p e n n i l e s P o l i h i m m i g an t — E ra nd i n a b u h fa t o ry
S n F an cisco i n t h e 9 0s T h a t e and o t h er sh ows
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CHAPTER II
FA MI LY CI R C L E S
Cornelia O tis Skinner 1 901
Henry Noble MacCrack en 1 880
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monologist wh o writes her own sketches— and author but her Fa m ily
C ircle di ffers fro m the a s cending personal triump h s o f most s tage auto
biograp hie s in that her chie f p urp ose is to tell the story o f h er mother
and father Maud D urbin and O tis Skinner Her p art is merely that
o f the th ird member o f the Skinner f amily her entrance on the stage
coming toward the end o f the book which closes with fath er Skinner
squeezing her hand in the wings and saying Well Miss you ve made
your New York d"
but From now on you re on your own
She tells o f her mother s youth in Moberly Missouri th e great in
t ere st taken in the young actress by Madame Modjeska who introduced
h er to her own leading man O tis Skinner ( Maud decided sh e de fi
n i t ely didn t like him ) and later engineered his somewhat reluctant
invitation to Maud to join his new comp any as leading lady
O tis Skinner the son o f a scholarly U niversalist p reacher came
from an austere New E ngland background Whe n the stage struck
youth finally braced himsel f fo r h is dynamic announcement Father
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mother howled Why you can t even talk straight "
After their romantic marriage the young couple led a hard li fe fo r
s ome years consisting o f much work exhausting troup ing no business
and mo untainous debts But success came at last with matinee idol
dom fo r O tis His daughter describe s their vicissitudes with such
mingled a ff ection and humor as to make her book a most entertaining
family album
Henry Noble MacC rack en s family came from a far diff erent walk
in li fe His fath er was a college p resident to be s ure but the man
who later became president o f Vassar College and a notable figure in
the educational world would h ardly be recognized in the young h o od
lum who p layed with his gang in and around Gramercy Park in th e
old New York o f the 9 05 Cyru s Field and E dwin Boo th would stop
to p lay marbles with the boys Reginald D e Ko ve n working on the score
o f R o b in H o o d could be heard nearby while William D ean Howell s
R ichard Watson Gilder and similar celebrities might drop in o f an
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wa s th e time o f O Henry s Bagdad o u Huds o n with unlimited
alley cats gang wars fire h orse s and magnificent fire s A new bicy cle
made possible extended trips from the Battery t o th e end o f th e Hud
son County Boulevard and an adventure in C en t ral Park with the
mys terious Maggie T h e Fa m ily o n Gram ercy Park give s a boy s V ie w
o f b o t h the magic city around him and the unique f amily at h ome
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F a th er O tis Ski nner— C le i cal h ou seh ol d—Th e atre goi ng
E arly st ru ggl e s— D aly s— A da R eh an
T h e act or t ak es a wi fe—
Troup ing— P overty and h appiness
C orn eli a ap p e ars— Li fe i n a t ru nk
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D escri b e t h e MacC rack ens a nd t h eir G ram ercy Park n eigh borh ood
T h e C a t C h asi ng Cl u b—Mu tt o n G avy— G re a t W h ip W ar
E l ectra— T o sch oo l at M W Ly on s—C e l e bra t i on s
Bi cycling—T h e Pavi li on Girl—Troubles o f A nni e
T h e B oy s Mi sh —C h oi r b oys—T h e ga ng grow s up
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CHAPTER III
T I ME MA R C H E S O N I N SO U TH EAS T A FR I C A
Philip J acobus Pretorius 1 8 7 7
Christina S ib iya 1 900
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Major Pretorius was the last o f a race o f men who exemp lified th e
best in the pioneering traditions o f Africa T h e Africa in which he
lived ha s all but vanished but fortunately shortly be fore his death in
1 94 5 a friend p ersuaded him to make the notes from which "
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courage and an intelligence whetted to keenness on danger and love
o f the wilds this could not be equalled by a n
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Pretorius le ft his father s T ransvaal farm at the age o f six teen and
did not return fo r twenty fi ve years Most o f that time was spent a s a
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and rhinos were mere incidents in his quest fo r the big elep hants o f
German E as t Africa Rhodesia and the Congo So acute was his o b
servation that he could detect animals on the horizon with his naked
eye be fore his comp anions could find them with binoculars ; and once
he killed five elep hants with five shots in ex actly thirty seconds "
He had a natural ap titude fo r languages finding it easy to talk
with authority t o any native anyw here and this gi ft added to a
winning personality made many friends fo r him among the savages
fo r whom he had a reci p rocal liking and understanding T his p aid o ff
in the important ai d he gave the British in 1 9 1 4 1 9 He not only was
ch ie f scout to Field Marshal S m u t s s forces during the E ast African
camp aign ; but also assisted the Navy in finding the whereabouts o f the
German cruiser K On igsb erg which had gone into hiding in the Ru fiji
delta It is hard to say which o f Pretorius tales are more thrilling
running down the Germans or chasing wild animals
"u lu W o m a n is the inward and outward li fe o f Christina first wi fe
King o f the "u lus who reigned from 1 9 1 3 t o 1 93 3
o f Solom o n
Christina was a Christian and did not believe in polygamy so when
Solomon married o t her wives sh e lived through a p eriod o f humiliation
turning to indi ff erence and ending finally in the first and only divorce
ever demanded by a "ulu woman She told her story t o Mrs Reyh er
author and journalist whose chie f p urp ose was to find out what goes
on in the heart and mind o f a native woman She found that though
ex isting under a p rimitive system o f marriage in which wives are
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purchased with cattle and forced to share one husband they n ev erth e
less exp erience the same emotions as those o f so called civilized p eoples
including jealou sy de p endence pride and resentment at p ersonal
e xp loitation At the same t I m e I t I s ap p arent t hat Chris t ina hersel f is
far above the average a woman o f great strength o f character and
f orbearance wi t h high standards o f honesty and decency By sheer
moral suasion she finally gained justice
According to D r R uth Benedict late Columbia p ro fessor this b o ok
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system under infl uences traceable to the advent o f the white man in
South Africa
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CHAPTER IV
T O L E A D T H E I R OW N L I V E S
T homas
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George Woodbury
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title o f T h omas Merton s book T h e S eve n S to rey M o u n ta in
is taken from D ante s seven tiered image o f Purgatory It is written
fr o m the T rap p i s t monastery at Gethsemani Kentucky and tell s the
li fe story o f a young man who had e very advantage as to means and
education who tasted all the p leasures o f li fe but with a growing
restlessness and discontent At Columbia U niversity he joined brie fly
a Communist group — which enable s him to give a W I t ty explanation
o f how students are in fl uenced to C o mmunism and then disillusioned
Still concerned over the social and economic inju s tices o f modern li fe
h e worked at a Catholic settlement house in Harlem became a convert
to Catholicism and finally found peace and the salv a t iOn he was seeking
in the li fe o f a cloister
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T homas Merton who has also published v olume s o f p o etry
ite s brilliantly o f all phases o f his li fe but perhaps the mo st absorbing
part i s the last where he gives a detailed de s crip tion o f the little known
daily life o f a T rappist monk T hough writing as a priest he ha s kep t
the layman s V iewp oint in mind to explain some o f the difli cu lt ies we
w ould e xpect him to encounter
Horace Gregory in the Ne w Yo rk T imes says T h e critical and
moral temper of the age has become increasingly theological ; the p ubli c
is beginning to realize that the more perceptive writers o f th e presen t
decade are not the scientific materiali s ts o f ten o r fi fteen years ago It
is on the wave o f this realizati o n that T h omas Merton s autobiography
is a document o f general imp ortance It has arrived at precisely th e
right moment ; its critical edges its spectacular discontent wi th th e
imm ediate past do not cut against th e grain o f the present h our b u t
revolve smoothly within it
George Woodbury too retreated fro m hi s former world but fo r
somewhat di fferent reasons An archaeologis t co nnected with the Pea
body Museum a t Harv ard he had worked himsel f out o f a j ob at a
time when his doctor warned him that his health demanded a relaxed
outdo or li fe and his wi fe was expecting their firs t ch ild
Fortuna t ely he had a way out in the ancestral home in New Hamp
shire a neglected rural p rop erty which included a dilapidated hou s e
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a ruined dam a mill that h ad tumbled d own and a stand o f pine
timber How he restored all these ruin s and put th em to work largely
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S t B o n a e n t u re s— T o b e o r n o t t o b e a F an ci s can
H oly we ek a t G e th sem ani
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Jo h n G ofi Mi l l b y G eorge W o odb u ry
C o n n i e and m a t i m o ny— Move t o B d ford Ne w H am ps h i re
Joh n Go ff e s h e it age— Repai ring th e h ou e
T h e t orm n e ce i t a t s a sawm i ll— Lou i s L avi gn e
T h e d eb u t ank — T h e m i l l op e a t es
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M o t h er M B erch m ans; A Man in th e D ivide d
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G en Mo u n tain F m b y E lli o t t Mer i ck
A H o m e in t h e C o u n t y b y F e de i c F Van de W a t er
I t s a n O ld Ne w E ng la n d C usto m by E dwi n Val e n t i ne Mi t ch el l
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I N L I G HT ER V E I N
Ann Barley
Maria Williams Sheeri n
O n the evening that Ann Barley met her fianc"returned from the
war and fo und that his feeling toward her had changed she sought
consolation by going on to a p arty given by friends who had pro
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him s t u ffy T here she encountered a delightful D utchman
j ust arrived to see about getting some food fo r the Netherlands He
told her o f the thousands o f children in his coun try orp haned by th e
war and when Sh e suggested I f there are D utch children who need
mothers perhap s I d do he resp onded enthusiastically and o ffered to
help her It seemed a simp le case o f demand and sup p ly so Ann
Barley p acked her bags bulging wi t h diap ers and baby clothes o f
assorted sizes and sailed away to claim her child
For months the little suits remained unp acked as Ann combed
Holland Belgium and France fo r the On e baby who was to be hers
She found all sor t s o f unex p ected obstacles op p osition red tape and
when children were available though they tore at her heart strings
none had that magnetic ap p eal which told h er that she and the child
were akin Finally in France sh e found the beguiling nine months old
Patrick b u t even then the ba t t le was only hal f won
T h e Paris hotel where sh e was staying was reserved e x clusively fo r
American businessm en ; so she told the clerk to register Patrick as a
small businessman T hen there were delays over ado p tion require
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mail But by this time mother and son had become welded i nto a
f amily unit and in a year a newsman was saying s t udying Patri ck It
ain t possible that kid was born i n E urope L ook at him L ooks Amer
ican talks it ac t s it And Ann comments T his is true T h e dim inu
tive figure in blue overalls already has a swagger reminiscent o f th e
G I s who strolled along the Champ s E ly sees
Maria Sheerin is another woman o f courage who describes the
hardships and rewards o f her li fe in T h e Pa rso n T a k es a Wife T hey
move fro m Fredericksburg to Waco to Richmond to Cha t tanooga to
New York finally to Washington New rectories neighbors parish
i o n ers— all require adj ustments while the p arson s W i fe cares fo r her
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increasing family run s h erho me and fulfils th e m any demands m ade
o n h er calling on the right people o n th e righ t day s t o go ing t o
all the funeral s
She tells frankly o f h er efforts to help h er husband some o f th e m
m istaken though well meant o f their occa s ional argument s and di ffer
e n ce s o f opini o n but it i s ob v iou s th at sh e h a s learned t o become a
s ucces s ful minister s w i fe
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Mr A rth u — T h e se arch b egi n s i n Fran ce
C o n t i n u e d i n H ol l an d— Mrs W i j m u l l e
Re t u n t o Pa is— F i nd i ng o f Pa t ri ck
T h e C al i forni a p rep a e s— B aby care
D i fficu l t i e s o f ge t t i n g h om e
Re ce p t i on i n W ash i n gt o n— Pat t ak e ove
Re a d seve al ch aract eri st i c p as ages
2 T h e Pa so n Tak s a Wife b y Mari a W i lliam s S h e eri n
Mari a t ak es a job— Mee t s h er p a son
F ederi ck sburg— T h e re ct o y— S h erry s se m ons
S ocia l li fe— C alli ng— E m m a— C h arli
W a co—T h e e ct o ry— C om m u n i ty l i fe
C h u rch w ork— E d Mu ll en
Ri ch m o n d— D r B u k h ard t— Negro W e l fa e C o u n ci l— O fo rd G rou p
C h a tt an oo ga
B om e — Th orb u rn
T h e Na t i o n al C o u n ci l a n d New Yo k — E sse Fe lls
O n t o W ash i n gt o n— C h u r h o f t h e E p ip h a ny
S u m m ary : th e p arson s wi fe
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CHAPTE R VI
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Nathaniel Hawth orne 1 804 1 8 64
Henry D avid T horeau 1 8 1 7 1 8 62
Abigail May A lcott 1 8 00 1 8 7 7
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A n e w American Men o f L etters Serie s has recently been a n
n o u n ce d under a distinguished edi t orial board h eaded by Columbia
Scholarly writers o f the highest
U nivers ity s J osep h Wood Krutch
rank are working on the v olumes two o f which already p ublished are
accorded great praise by eminent critics Writing in C o m m o nw ea l
Mason Wade s ays o f Mark Van D o ren s Na th an ie l H a w th o rne :
T hi s brie f critical bio graphy maintains an admirable balance
between n arrativ e and comment and is a model o f it s kind Mr Van
D oren a poet here writing criticism does f ull justice t o Hawthorne
wh o wa s a poet writing fiction He has weighted t h e findings o f th e
most recent s ch o larship a s well a s the older biographical and critical
studies and blended them into a beauti fully written and fres h inter
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In the S a n Fra n cisco C h ro n icle J oseph Henry Jackson says : Much
o f the book s interest lies in Mr Van D o ren s ably conducted search
fo r the essence o f Hawthorne ; the problem wa s to reconcile th e mild
ness th e gentleness the sensitivity and the melancholy with the
strength the willingness t o face the inmost secrets o f li fe without
fl in ch ing that Hawth orne p ossessed in full measure
R e viewing J o s ep h Wood Krutch s H e n ry D av id T h o rea u in th e
New Yo rk T im es Brooks Atkinson has this to say : Never have so
many first rate s ch o lars been so interested in cracking the hard facts o f
T horeau s li fe and p hilosop hical observ ati o ns J osep h Wo o d Krutch
has added a critical biograp hy that ranks with the best work in the
field o f T h oreau and accepts T horeau as a p rop het T h e dissa t isfac
tion which he exp ressed with things as they are ha s come to seem more
and more justified and his prop hecies have in many resp ects been fu l
filled says Mr Krutch Many o f his exhortations and his gibes strike
home as they ne ver did before and give pause t o many who are very far
fro m being T h o re au ist s
T h e lesson which Henry D av id T horeau
had taught him sel f and which he hop ed he might teach to oth ers wa s
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CHAPTER VII
T RA G I C PR I N C E ; PI AN O V I RT U OS O
Rudolph
of
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Hapsburg L o thringen
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Count Carl Lo nyay s R u do lp h t h e T rage dy of M ayerling cruelly
annihilates th e long cherished romance o f ill starred love the double
s uicide o f the handsome Crown Prince o f Austria and his lov ely
mistress and the truth proves to be much more intriguing than the
legend
Rudol p h was actually a dissolute w eakling with manic depressive
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tendencies T h e beauti ful Countess Ve t sera was only moderately
good looking and certainly not innocent having h ad her first love
affair at the age o f si x teen T hat sh e die d with him was really an
accident Rudolp h had asked three other people be fore h e asked her
Count Lo ny ay has the documents to back u p his acid chronicles
since his uncle married Step hanie R udolp h s widow and from her
received invaluable family pap ers He also had access to secret hitherto
unp ublished government archives When his uncle and aunt died in
1 94 5 4 6 the Count w
h o was then living in E ngland decided the time
h ad come to let the world know the truth about Mayerling
He also seems to take great ple asure in demolishing the my t h o f
the saintly and beloved E mp eror Francis J osep h He was a cold ill
mannered stup id man who could not bear to relinquish even a small
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forced him into a loveless marriage (Stephanie s friends called her a
bore a nagger and a
and when the last blow fell was only
concerned with concealing the truth and maintaining that he was
heart broken by the death o f the son with whom his relations h ad
always been smooth and a ffectionate L o ny ay says It was a grave
error not to give the p eople the true facts o f the death o f their Crown
T h e decep tions practiced by the Austrian government and
Prince
insp ired by the monarch only serv ed to keep the drama alive in
people s minds No w a fter the lap se o f nearly sixty years when few
wo uld so much as have known the name o f the last Crown Prince o f
Austria Hungary Rudo lph still excites the interest o f a large part o f
the Western world
It is a pity that Harold Bauer should feel that the writing o f hi s
memoirs has been the most abominable and tedious ch ore that I ever
undertook fo r according to Moses Smith in th e Ne wYo rk T im es it
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fo r living and thinking and one aware o f the ra p idly changing char
acter o f li fe and manners during his time ; a literate understanding
reasonable and (in the E lizabeth an as well as in o ur p re s ent meaning)
humorous man
Bauer started hi s musical career a s a b o y v iolinist then by an o dd
turn o f fate he renounced the violin and devoted himself entirely to
the p iano Much o f his li fe was sp ent in Paris and more than hal f o f
I t I n the U nited States
He was associated with many di s tinguished
persons in the world o f music such as Paderewski Kreisler Casals
Ysaye Gabril o wit s ch ; played w ith practically all the great symph o ny
orchestras o f the world and has many engaging anecdotes to tell about
them
He has now retired from public li fe but m aI n t a I n s a clo s e connec
tion with the Manhattan School o f Music in New York and the J uliu s
Hartt School in Hart ford and frequently Vi s its colleg es and univer
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C om i n g o f age— Re l i gi on— Mi l i t ary ser i e
Mar iage— M t u i ty
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H i B ok
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P e se n t t h e h igh ligh t o f B u er s ca ee b y el e ted re adings from
b ou t frien ds n d a ociate
cl u di n g om e o f h i s t o i e
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V III
CHAPTER
T H E S C E N E S IN
BE H I N D
W AS H I N G T O N
Bess Furman 1 8 9 4
Henrietta Nesbitt 1 8 74
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After ten years on a midwestern newspaper Bes s Furman wa s
b rop gh t t o Washington by the Associated Press because sh e had won
the B o o km a n s p rize fo r newswriting with a color p iece on Al Smith s
O maha campaign speech She began to cover the White House during
th e Ho over occupancy and h er p osition with the AP together with
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her warm hearted engaging p ersonality to read between the lines
led to the formation o f strong friendships with men and women in h igh
laces
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to
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Mrs R oosevelt on most o f her trip s and Wa s obliged to buy low h eeled
S hoes in order to keep up with h er
In Wash ingto n By L in e a woman s V iew o f Washington sh e de
s cribes Cabinet wives Senators wives and female bureaucrats ; the
Garners D olly Gann and Alice L ongworth Frances Perkins and Ruth
Bryan Rohde E valyn Walsh McL ean the T rumans and many others
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I t s a sympathetic and aff ec
Ye t as Margaret Culkin Banning says
t io n a t e book but there i s no toadying or exaggerating i n it s page s No
better portrait o f E leanor Roosevelt has been done tracing her great
energies from their s o urces to their accompli sh ments Bess Furman
knew important p eople use ful people and quie t p eople in Washington
T here are hundreds o f portrait s o f men and women done quickly but
with a talent fo r getting a good likene ss And Mrs R oosevelt hers el f
s ays I hop e this book will h ave a w ide sale fo r in a democracy one
S hould know as much as p ossible about w hat hap p ens w ithin the go v
ern m e n t circles o f thi s country
Mrs Henrietta Nesbitt s Wh ite H o use D ia ry greatly furthers th i s
knowledge at least in respect to the running o f the Roosevelt Wh ite
House Mrs Nesbitt was a shrewd alert country woman who had kept
h ouse all her li fe and became known to Mrs R oosevelt at Hyde Park
a s the maker o f an e xcellent whole wheat bread S he was called on to
furni sh p ies cakes rolls cookies s trudels and other delicacies fo r the
Governor s table all o f which led t o her jo b and address Care O
f th e
Wh ite House at the age o f fi fty nine Here she learned to take in h er
stride s uch orders as T hree thousand two hundred sandwiches fo r a
garden party ; T e a fo r five thousand ; Breakfast for the President o f
Iceland in hi s room at nine ; and when Harry Hopkins lived in the
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White House sh e had to know all th e forty eight foods that were fo r
bidden him
Food and catering was b y no means the only p roblem T here were
twenty two thousand p ieces o f glass in the chandelier in the E ast Room
and when it was cleaned (once a year) the glass p risms had to be re
moved one a t a time washed in alcohol p olished and hung back in
lace
Crown
Princess
Martha
o f Norway gave v ery little trouble but
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Madame Chiang demanded fresh sheets pillow Slip s and blanket sp read
every time she got into bed
T h e D ia ry is a thoro u ghly en t ertaining if homely book and Mrs
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a salty American ty e whose last words
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ME MO RA B L E RE C O LL E C T I O N S
L eo N T olstoy 1 8 28 1 9 1 0
T atyana A Kuzminskaya 1 8 4 6 1 9 25
Gertrude Stein 1 8 74 1 94 6
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Kuzminskaya (Bers) whose book T o ls toy as I K n e w H im
h a s just been translated into E nglish wa s L eo T olstoy s sister in law
She writes delightfully o f her first r omantic rh apsodies and youth ful
adventures ; o f Ru s si an li fe in the homes o f typical families o f the
landed gentry b o th in the city and on their country estates ; and
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mo s t important o f all in great detail o f T olstoy during the years h e
was courting her sister his early married li fe at Yasnay a Polyana and
the writing o f Wa r a n d Pea ce
T h e relationship between T olstoy and the young girl eighteen year s
h is junior was a deep ly a ff ectionate and intimate one and She was the
model fo r Natasha R ostova the heroine o f h is greatest novel Wa r a n d
Pea ce A number o f the incidents in her li fe were ascribed to Natasha
and it is also clear that the Bers family appeared as the lively Rostovs
As William S o sk in observes in the S a tu rday R e v ie w of L ite ra tu re
T h e artist in his carp et slippers caught by the candid camera in the
bosom o f h is family o ften p rovides a more telling p ortrait than any to
be found in volumes o f criticism o f his li fe and works
It is the
restless somehow maladjusted man striving to fit hi s li fe into a peace ful
pattern o f domesticity that emerges from the diary o f T atyana Kuz
minskaya
Mr R ogers recollections o f Gertrude Stein are based on a warm
friendshi p o f long standing When he was a soldier with the A E F
in France during the first World War he met Gertrude Stein and her
comp anion Alice B T oklas driving round the country in a decrep it
Ford delivering gi fts to French soldiers in hospitals fo r the American
Fund fo r French Wounded T hey liked the young American on h i s
lonely furlough and decided to take h im on a tri p and show him the
country As fo r Rogers he had no idea who Miss Stein was e x cep t
that Miss T oklas confided that sh e writes but there was something
magnetic and comp elling about her
I liked her he declares T hat
wa s all
Ap p arently when peop le like Miss Stein they also accep t her writ
ings or at least her own admission o f genius She explained that thirty
minutes a day allowed p lenty o f time fo r her s p ecial sort o f literary
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genius to come through It takes a lot o f time to be a genius you have
to sit around so much doing
and that sh e never did a
domestic chore not even to t h e extent o f answering th e pho ne Wh at
is known as work is something that I cannot do
What sh e co u ld do was to endear hersel f to tho usands o f G Is in
World War II wh o accosted her on the streets s o ught out her apart
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ment and were there entertained in droves by day and in the evening
at lunch and tea with long discussions but with no strong drink fo r
she never found tip sters amusing and e xpected V isitors to be st im u la t
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never seen anything like it— it s nice t o be glorious and p opular in
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h e art i s evi de n t eve n i n t h e b li th e wi s t fu l b u bb l y
T h e see t h in g i n T o l st oy
p ages o f li ttle Tanya s di a y D o yo u fi n d th at t h is is true?
2 Wh n Th i Yo u S e R m e m b e Me : G e t u d S t in in P e so n by W G Rogers
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H e ch oi ce o f w o ds —A d m i e s a n d cri t i cs
B i li gni n— Mi s T okl as as ch e f— B ask e t
Trip to A m e ica 1 9 34 35
S en ti m e n t al jo u rn ey 1 9 3 7
Mi s S tein and W orl d W ar II
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G e t u de S t in : Fo m an d I n te lligi b ili ty b y Ros alin d S Mil ler
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T h e Gr a t r Ci ty : New Yo k 1 8 9 8 1 9 48 by A l l an Ne vin s and
R ecolle ct io ns of an O ld Ne w Yo rk er b y Frederi ck Van W yck
Man ha t t n K a le idoscop e b y Frank W ei tank amp f
No M a n Ci ty b y S im e on S t ru nsk y
C h a mp agn e C h o l ly by E ve B rown
New Yo k : C o nfid n t ia l b y Jack L ai t and Le e Mort im er
McS o rley s Won d rfu l Sa lo o n by Jos ep h Mi t ch el l
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T H E D RU RY LA N E
D av id
Garrick
R ichard Brin s ley Sheridan
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biographie s o f D avid Garrick and R ichard Brin sley Sheridan
can be linked togeth er as the s tory o f the E ngli sh stage in the eighteenth
century more especially o f the D rury L ane T heatre which shared with
Covent Garden th e dist inct io n o f being one o f th e two great playho use s
o f L ond o n
one o f a swarm o f
D av id Garrick w as t h e s o n o f an Army o fficer
ch ildren Captain and Mrs Garrick were s truggling t o bring up in
gentility o n th eir meagre income At nineteen h e wa s s ent to Samuel
J ohns on s s chool— wh ere he pre ferred to do impers onati o ns rath er th a n
h omework— and wh en the scho o l failed through lack o f pu p ils Gar
rick and J ohnson s et o ut fo r L ondon together t o m ake their fortune s
How quickly D avid succeeded and wh at a long painful struggle wa s
J ohns on s "T hrough o ut their live s they w ere friends th ough more from
o ld as s ociati o n s s ake than congeniality and their points o f contact and
bearing o n each oth er s fortune s form an imp ortant part o f Margaret
Barton s scholarly and entertaining b o ok
T hough a small man and not particularly h andsome Garrick at
the age o f twenty four revolutionized E nglish acting w ith th e novelty
o f h i s easy natural s tyle o f deliver
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predecessors
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whereas Garrick submerged the actor in the part h e wa s playing and
throughout h i s li fetime wa s able to fill the theatre w ith h is im p ersona
tions o f R ichard III Macbeth and L ear He really restored Shakes
peare to the E nglish s tage since hereto fore the plays h ad been te rribly
mutilated and changed ; and a s ma nager o f the D rury L ane T heatre
Garrick made many important technical impr ovements aff ecting the
audience as well as actors Wh en h e retired fro m the stage in 1 7 7 6 it
meant far more to the man in the street than th e rebellion go ing o n in
those troublesome American colonie s
R ichard Brinsley Sheridan is remembered t o day becau s e he wrote
the immortal comedies T h e R iv a ls and T h e S ch o o l fo r S ca nda l but in
his own li fetime h e wa s equally famous a s an infl uential politician and
as manager o f the D rury L ane T h eatre So varied were h is activities
in b o th p ublic and private life so complex h is financial manipulations
that his biograp her Lewis Gibb s comments It is not any easier fo r
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the writer to pin him down today than it was fo r h is numerou s creditors
a century and a hal f ago However in reviewing the book fo r the Ne w
Yo rk T im es T homas "
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and c omp lex biograp hy extraordinarily well catching the ch arm and
recklessness o f the Sheridan personality and the s p irit o f h is age ad
m ira b ly It is a full and complete book a sturdy w ork but h appily
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D o lly
Madi s o n
Maria Mitch ell
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A woman wh o never did anything great or e ven v ery extraordinary
acquired lasting fame not through what S h e did but thro ugh wh at sh e
was
She lives on a s a legend— a legend c o mp osed o f beauty charm
and sup reme s ocial graciousness says Kath arine Anthony whose D o lly
Ma d is o n H er L ife a n d T im es giv es a color ful and accurate picture o f
th i s nation s early h istory and the p eop le wh o made it
Among these D olly Madison i s outstanding a s th e wi fe o f our four th
President J ames Madison on intimate terms with Washington Adams
J e fferson Aaro n Burr and s oci al arbiter o f Washi ng ton s o ciety through
s everal administration s Her "
u aker upbringing h ardly prepared h er
fo r this career but its di s cipline molded h er ch aracter and fitted her
fo r the arduou s side o f h er li fe
Hardship s there were in the troubles o f Madis o n s administrati o n
the threat o f war from the British th eir burning o f the pre s idential
mansion and the gradual decline o f Madison s h ealth and e s tate
Greatest grie f o f all was th e worthles s ness o f D olly s so n Payne T odd
Ye t sh e h a s come d own thr o ugh the years as a great lady not s o
much in th e magnificence o f h er costumes and th e brilliance o f h er
c ourt a s in the naturalnes s and s imp licity which always characterized
h er personality and which w o n her the first place in Wa sh ingto n
s o ciety as long as sh e lived there A contemp orary William C Presto n
wrote : Wh en I knew h er in a fter li fe widowed poor and W ithout
restige
o f s tation I found h er the same good natured kind hearted
p
considerate s tately person th at she h ad been in the h ey day o f her
fortunes
S w e ep e r in t h e S ky i s th e biograp hy o f Maria Mitch ell America s
first woman astronomer wh o became the first director o f the Vassar
College O bservatory when it was founded in 1 865 She wa s born
into a family o f "
uakers in Nantucket at a time wh en it was the
greatest whaling port in the world It has also been said that in h er
childhood there were probably more brains p er square mile on Nan
tucket than anyw here else in the country
U nder the tutelage o f h er f ather who recognized h is daughter s
genius from the start the child Maria learned to sweep the skie s
from the walk on the t o p o f h er h ouse At t h e age o f thirteen sh e
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was making her own observ ations o f the stars and sh e was the first to
report on the comet o f 1 8 4 7 fo r which sh e received both a gold medal
from the King o f D enmark and world wide fame T o earn a living sh e
taught school took care o f the library in the Nantucket Athenaeum
and made astronomical calculations fo r Bowdi t ch s Pra ct ica l Nav iga to r
Her teaching at Vassar was distinguished by her liberal ide as far in
advance o f her time and her belie f in the imp ortance and use o f indi
v idual research in the teaching o f science She also found time t o take
a leading p art in the woman s rights movement and as President o f the
Associa t ion fo r the Advancement o f Women labored fo r the betterment
Wi t hal
o f woman s p osition in higher education es p ecially in science
sh e was an inde endent and sel f reliant character frank and bluntly
p
outs p oken wi t h a marked individuality that was both resp ected and
admired Helen Wright her biograp her I S well fitted both by college
training and astronomical e xperience to write this absorbing and a u
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T h e O t ago n H o u se— B u i l d i n g o f t h e C i ty o f W a h i ngt o n
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