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Alabama Beauty. In the Fitzgerald story, Editor William Hill recaptured the flavor of the flapper era and of the man who recorded and personified it, by simple and authentic means: period jazz (Chicago and New Orleans styles), Fitzgerald's own words and the varied voices of his friends reminiscing about him. The voices of Fitzgerald's friends were what gave this thumbnail radio biography a unique intimacy...
Cecil Reed, a boyhood friend in St. Paul, told how young Scott lay awake nights talking of his ambition to go to Princeton. Judge John Biggs Jr., a Princeton roommate, told how, fresh from St. Paul, Fitzgerald "had the advantage of being a superb writer, [but] his knowledge of spelling and punctuation was almost rudimentary." Gerald Murphy, an intimate friend of later years, described Zelda Sayre, the Alabama beauty Fitzgerald loved: "She had rather a powerful, hawklike expression, very beautiful features, not classic, and extremely penetrating eyes, and a very beautiful figure, and she moved beautifully. She had a great...
Ritual Orgies. Fitzgerald married Zelda on the $5,000 advance royalties of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they set off on a mad fling that was to span the decade, cover a couple of continents, and wind up with Scott an inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless schizophrenic. Fitzgerald's literary agent, Harold Ober, told radio listeners where the money came from: short stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual...
...friend told of Fitzgerald's generosity to a writer who was then unknown: "After Scribners showed a reluctance to publish Ernest Hemingway, [Scott] issued an ultimatum. All that I recall of it was that it ended, 'or else.' " Henry Wales, an American correspondent in Paris, told how Fitzgerald did battle one night in an elegant Montmartre nightclub against six Argentines armed with champagne bottles, with the damages in broken glassware alone amounting to $500. Two close friends, Millionaire Gerald Murphy and oldtime Cinemactress Lois Moran, spoke as the original models of Dick Diver and Rosemary...
Cracked Plate. Arthur Mizener, Fitzgerald's biographer (The Far Side of Paradise), told how Scott and Zelda expected nothing but joy out of life and quarreled bitterly when they were disappointed. "We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promises of American advertising," Zelda once said. "I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail, and that mud will give you a perfect complexion." After Zelda became ill, Fitzgerald said. "I left my capacity for hoping on the little road that led to Zelda's sanitarium." He wrote her: "Do you remember before...