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...Gertrude Stein, whose expatriate thoughts at 72 have been turning homeward, had a couple about G.I.s: "You know, those G.I.s kept pinup girls all over the walls of their barracks-like religious icons. They idealized women, but, when they walked the streets of Paris, many of them would be drunk and would leer at and insult almost every woman they met. American boys are virginal, for only virgins would act that way. They liked the German women. When they made love to German women, the German women did all the work, like cows they did all the work...
...lecturing to women's clubs, butlering for a professor. He took a cattle boat to Europe in 1925, soon mingled with fun-loving expatriates in Montparnasse, wrote many poems, several books (Confessions of Another Young Man, The Professor's Wife, etc.), joined the cultural circle of Gertrude Stein, Elliot Paul, James Joyce, George Antheil. When his writing failed to feed him, he lectured or fiddled in cafes. Wrote Miss Stein's secretary, Alice B. Toklas: "We liked Bravig, even though as Gertrude Stein said, his aim was to please." To Frenchmen, there was nothing wrong with that...
Richard Wright, U.S. Negro writer (Native Son, Black Boy), arrived in Paris as a cultural guest of the French Government, was greeted at the station by functionaries and Gertrude Stein. Author Stein, no slouch as an original herself, let go with a tribute: "He writes the most interesting and original prose being written by an American writer today...
...serious consideration. "Memoirs of Hecate County" forms a sequel to his "I Thought of Daisy," published in 1929. Just as that volume was a chronicle of Wilson's generation in the twenties, a generation epitomized by his Princeton classmate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, bohemian, leftist, self-consciously intellectual, what Gertrude Stein was to term "a last generation," so "Memoirs of Hecate County" is a continuing study of that generation in the thirties and early forties...
...world première in Pasadena because two earnest young Playhouse couples, Jane and Robert Claborne, and Toni and Lamont Johnson, while touring France with the USO last year, phoned Miss Stein in Paris and asked if they might call on her. "Certainly," she replied, "you certainly may come up, please come up, please come up right away." They did, and in the midst of being slapped down for their opinions on French politics, were snapped up as "perfect" for her new play...