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...GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS - Eleanor Ruggles-Norton...
...Illinois section, Ed Kelly suddenly snapped at Scott Lucas: "Christ Almighty, let's get in this thing. We're clean out." Out rushed the whole Illinois delegation for a caucus at John Touhy's. Wyoming switched to Truman. Aging, ex-Ambassador James Gerard got the microphone for New York, rasped out: "New York is now unanimous. . . . Make it 93 for Truman." The Truman total: 558½, with 589 needed to nominate...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
Robert Pitkin nearly stole the show as the Mikado, and did himself justice as the usher in "Trial by Jury" and as Dick Dead-Eye, although the latter part required a bass which he was not able to supply. James Gerard, the romantic lead of the company and its only good tenor, does not quite look the part of the handsome Ralph Rackstraw or a Nanki-Poo. His substitute, Allen Stewart, who played the defendant in "Trial by Jury," is better looking but his voice does not have the required lyrical quality...
...Poet Gerard de Nerval sent a friend to Dumas. His name was Auguste Maquet. He brought Dumas a rough draft of an historical novel, soon published in two volumes as Le Bonhomme Buvat by Alexandre Dumas. Said Dumas: "The two most amusing volumes I have ever written." Maquet's name did not appear on the books. He got about...