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...What did Doby Gillis and Zelda have which made their marriage inevitable, according to Zelda...
...emotional man, he became so immersed in his subject that he began referring to his wife Julia as "Jacqueline." As a result of the pressure, he became ill earlier this year, required hospitalization and received treatment from the same psychiatrist who tended Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda...
...most famous story about her is probably the one concerning her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald. That was in France in 1925, when Edith Wharton was 63 and Fitzgerald 28. She had written him a letter praising The Great Gatsby and invited him and Zelda to her country home for tea. Zelda refused to go; she was damned, she said, if she would travel 50 miles from Paris to let an old lady stare at her and make her feel provincial. According to Biographer Arthur Mizener, Fitzgerald, fortified with alcohol and determined not to be put down as a provincial...
...Hemingway's saying, Zelda Fitzgerald almost destroyed Scott through her insane envy of his talent by convincing him that he was sexually inadequate. Hemingway claims that he realized she was insane long before Fitzgerald was forced to accept the fact. As evidence, he cites the time that Zelda asked him: "Don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus?" Perhaps the lost generation was not really lost after all, merely mislaid...
...University of Minnesota; a roving Equity group called the Association of Producing Artists is at the University of Michigan; and the Theater Group, founded by Producer John Houseman, is at U.C.L.A. >Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, with 11,000 subscribers, has become "comfortably self-supporting," says Zelda Fichandler, who founded it in 1950 just after taking her master's degree in drama from George Washington University. First playing in an old movie theater and later in a brewery...