Word: hackett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majestic: James K. Hackett in "Monsieur Beaucaire...
...sessions, the first part of the concert starting at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon and the second at 8.30 o'clock in the evening. In addition, five prominent vocalists will render solos at the performance of Handel's "Solomon." They are Margaret Matzenauer, Olga Averina, Charles Hackett, Keith Faulkner, and Julius Huehn. All but Huehn will also take part in the Bach program...
...eyes that have wept for the broken Virgin, eyes that have faced battle, caressed and lusted, heavy with cupidity, glazed with surfeit, once expectant as the sky in May. . . . He is a type of Frenchman not yet extinct nor likely to be extinct for centuries." So does Historian Francis Hackett introduce his latest hero, Francis I. Author Hackett's 448-page tome is compendious and scholarly but he does not believe that "history should be blonde-proof"; not simply dignified names and dates but Francis' blondes and brunettes figure largely in this narrative...
Whatever else he may seem to the modern reader, Biographer Hackett's Francis will not seem a lead-wrapped effigy, the stiffly antiquated memorial of a far-off day. Pat and proper to modern ears comes the comment of one of his courtiers, as Francis lay dying: "The old sport is passing out!" ("Le vieux gallant...
...Author. From Kilkenny, Ireland, Francis Hackett came to the U. S. at 17, became a literary journalist, first in Chicago, then in Manhattan, where his weekly pages in The New Republic made town talk for eight years. In 1922 he stopped writing about books, began writing about men. Research for his Henry the Eighth took him six years. On Francis the First he spent five...