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...defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that the original of virtuous Rebecca was a pious young lady from Philadelphia named Rebecca Gratz...
From Austrian Silesia, in 1754 and 1759, emigrated the Brothers Barnard and Michael Gratz. Their progeny reached eminence in various ways, but none more than Rebecca (1781-1869) daughter of Michael. In Philadelphia today survive charities founded by Rebecca Gratz. One of her good works was to nurse Matilda Hoffman, fiancee of Washington Irving, before Matilda died of tuberculosis at 17. Irving, grief-stricken, hurried off to Europe, where he met Sir Walter Scott and told him about Rebecca Gratz. In 1819, after Ivanhoe was published, Scott is supposed to have written: "How do you like your Rebecca? Does this...
...Cleveland's Hebrew Cultural Gardens last week, with Scottish bagpipers droning and Scott authorities lecturing, a bronze bas-relief of Rebecca Gratz was unveiled at the Gardens' entrance across the street from the Shakespeare Garden...
Nebraska. Most spectacular turnover in last fortnight's Repu/blican primary was the defeat for renomination in the 2nd (Omaha) Congressional District of Representative Willis Gratz Sears, 70, by Howard Malcolm ("Mac") Baldrige, 36. Congressman Sears ran as an Uncompromising Dry, a supporter of Grundy tariff rates. Nominee Baldrige campaigned for repeal of the 18th Amendment and against an exorbitant tariff. Turned out of public office for the first time in 36 years, out of the House after eight years Congressman Sears took his defeat bitterly...
...Stevens Point?" some one had asked her. "Surely to begin a fiftieth anniversary tour-?" "Vy not?" Ernestine Schumann Hemk had answered. Should she go back to Europe, to Gratz where she had given her first formal concert at the age of fifteen? Should she go back to the little Austrian town where she grew up, the homely, hard-working child of a Bohemian soldier and an Italian mother? To be sure she had earned her first money there playing dance tunes on a tinkly piano in an old restaurant where the peasants gathered on holidays. Ninety-six cents...