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...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...
...Whatever Sadakichi was when he began, by the late '30s and early '40s he was a prince of moochers and a court jester to an aging band of once rollicking Hollywood musketeers who met irregularly in the studio of West Coast Painter John Decker. Barrymore. Fields, Decker and Sadakichi each had one foot in the grave and one hand on the bottle. In the guise of Sadakichi's biographer. Fowler drops many a footnote to their bibulous, gay-gallant last stand in his sprightly Minutes of the Last Meeting...
...Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
...Sadakichi Hartmann, onetime "King of Greenwich Village," announced from his desert-edge shack in California that he was writing "what likely will be my last opus." Son of a German father and Japanese mother, hard-playing Eccentric Hartmann was once a crony of Walt Whitman, spent most of his life writing art brochures and unplayable plays. Now 72, he described his final opus: "Theme: 1,000 happy moments in a lifetime-where can they be found-four New World Orders analyzed-which one is your choice...
WRITING thirty years after the original publication of his two-volume "History of American Art," Sadakichi Hartmann says, "Most of the men I believed in in my younger days have made good, and proportionately to the space and number of paragraphs I allotted them"; this statement to some extent sums up the work...