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Minutes of the Last Meeting, by Gene Fowler. More stories about those three Hollywood musketeers, John Barrymore, W. C. Fields and Author Fowler, disguised as a biography of their colleague and poetic oracle, Sadakichi Hartmann (TIME, April...
Vincent S. Aoki of Honolulu; Geoffrey T. Chalmers of Gambier, Ohio; Roger L. Clifton of Longmeadow, Mass.; Henry C. Dyer of St. Louis, Mo.; Harry K. Eldridge of Albany, N. Y.; Sigo Falk of Pittsburgh, Pa.; John W. Fowler of Naugatuck, Conn.; Robert H. Jaffe of Jamaica, L. I.; John R. Lind, of Wilmette, Ill.; Peter W. Macky of Paget, Bermuda; Arnold Marglin of Hollywood, Cal.; Arthur W. Martin of Seattle, Wash.; Lester R. Moulton, Marblehead, Mass.; Stewart Ogden, Louisville, Ky.; Harold P. Santmire of Buffalo, N. Y.; Stephen L. Singer of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Glenn E. Sisler...
Minutes of the Last Meeting, by Gene Fowler. More stories about those Hollywood musketeers, John Barrymore, W. C. Fields and Author Fowler, disguised as a biography of their colleague and poetic oracle, Sadakichi Hartmann (TIME, April...
...Hope of Walt Whitman. The idea of chronicling Sadakichi's wayward life and times began as a club gag. But Fowler took it seriously, and raked together the few known facts about this eccentric's eccentric. When he was not with his mock-worshipful pals, Sadakichi lived on an Indian reservation, posing as an Indian. Actually, he was the son of a German coffee merchant who had married a Japanese girl. His first name means "steady luck" in Japanese. Fields contended that it meant "Gimme some dough!" And Barrymore stoutly maintained that "Sadakichi is the mating call...
...genius in the form of a tattered newspaper clipping of 1888. In it Walt Whitman said: "I have more hopes of Hartmann, more faith in him than in any of the boys." Few connoisseurs today would show such faith in Sadakichi's poems, e.g., the couplets that Biographer Fowler uses as chapter headings. Samples: "I made a bed of sun and sand / Beside some vanished stream"; "In this torn sea of arabesques / Looms there no isle of peace?" Nonetheless, this kind of thing, plus two art books and a blasphemous play about Christ that was banned in Boston...