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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...
...Sadakichi Hartmann? Even his cronies found him hard to define. To John Barrymore, Sadakichi was "a living freak presumably sired by Mephistopheles out of Madame Butterfly." To his biographer Gene Fowler, he was "a bamboo bridge connecting the art of the 1880's with . . . our own time." His short-time employer Douglas Fairbanks Sr. called him "an intelligent spittoon." W. C. Fields, who insisted he understood Sadakichi best, steadfastly referred to him as "a no-good...
...call from somewhere, for he married twice and fathered 13 children, one illegitimate. But his first love was poetry, and he always carried a testimonial to his early 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...
...summary--123-pound: Gvardigan (C) defeated Bursk, 2-0; 130-pound: Lee (H) defeated Cirion, 6-1; 137-pound: Hartmann (C) defeated Wilde; pin, 5:16; 147-pound: Iben (H) defeated Rhodes, 6-4; 157-pound: Chandler (H) and Tischler, tie 1-1; 167-pound: Sherry (C) defeated Hubbard, 6-0; 177-pound: Barlow (C) defeated Farrington; pin, 5:59; and heavyweight Littlefield (C) defeated Bates...
Alfred V. Frankenstein, music and art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle with the Summer School Faculty, will provide a lecture commentary. He discovered the Hartmann pictures which Moussorgsky saw in St. Petersberg 75 years ago, after they had been considered lost for several years...