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Outside the cloister of his fanaticism for words and work Author Bennett pursued the society of literati, filled his journal with notes on the contemporary scene. He was not choosey. He confesses in one of his few poems: For me a rural pond is not more pure Nor more spontaneous titan my city sewer. In the Parisian restaurant Duval, where for years he regularly sat at a certain table, a revolting old woman once took a seat opposite him. Said Man Bennett: "With that thing opposite to me my dinner will be spoilt!" But Artist Bennett got the idea...
Generously the great Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry provided for his choosey feminine patrons two Lindberghs-Voila! Also he entitled his piece Charles Lindbergh-A Heroic Melodrama. Finally, with the cunning of a master dramatist, he supplied love interest-without offending that large section of French womanhood to whom Le Colonel is attractive chiefly as a symbol of masculine chastity...
Astounding, the news of these shouts spurred the German press to put forth special edition after special edition. Almost proven was the cynical theory that all Germans, from Friedrich the Great down, have nurtured a suppressed desire to be understood and warmly approved by choosey Frenchmen...