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THE QUICKEST, SUREST AND SAFEST WAY TO SEND MONEY IS BY TELEGRAPH OR CABLE

CARL VAN VECHTEN
150 WEST FIFTY-FIFTH STREET

Dear Miss Florine: Here is something right away about the insects in the Museum of Natural History. Please go to look at them. Maybe they will inspire a painting!

After what I saw yesterday in the way of celophane and crystal, and piepans, I think the Opera About SAINTS will lose a good deal if it loses your invaluable co-operation.

Please don't let it.

Next time I want to bring somebody to see your pictures, please let me.

love,

Monday

[1946 Jul 25]

CARL VAN VECHTEN

101 CENTRAL PARK WEST
NEW YORK CITY 23

TELEPHONE: ENDICOTT 2-8748

Dear Ettie, No sooner do you leave town than I need you desperately! Harper's Bazar which is reproducing Florine's portrait of me (and another not yet chosen) in color for the October number, has invited me to write a piece about Florine. Writing is extremely difficult for me latterly, and the amount of other work I have on hand is appalling, BUT I felt I must do this piece, and WANT to. ONLY it has to be done by August 15.... So I am sending you this SOS. Please tell me the name of the house which was so often painted for parties in (was it) Tarrytown. And where and when was André Brook...and where was the house on the Jersey coast and were there several of these? Have you any suggestions to make, anything you would like to see mentioned in print? Any "anecdotes"? It is to be a short, "pleasantly informative" article about the twenties and Florine's background for her pictures, NOT art criticism. If you can reply to this by approximately return mail you will be conferring a great favor on your humble servant, who signs himself with love,

July 25, 1946.

Paolo

If you would add a special delivery stamp to your envelope it would be get to me sooner. And could even be delivered on Sunday...

13 "Alwyn Court" conect?

LESSEBO

Miss Ettie Stettheimer
Marblehead, Massachusetts

Hotel Rockmore

CARL VAN VECHTEN

IOI CENTRAL PARK WEST
NEW YORK CITY 23

TELEPHONE: ENDICOTT 2-8748

Dear Ettie, Monroe Wheeler sent me Henry's Introduction in proof this morning with the request that I read it for errors etc.... I had hoped to avoid this, but as my paper was finished (practically) I saw no great harm in it. Imagine me delighted to discover that there were no important duplications. Even the poems of Florine's he had chosen are fixd different from the poems I had used. As the Van in my name was spelled with a small V I was able to correct this. Incidentally Henry has written a gorgeous piece and I am most enthusiastic about it. He reminds his readers and ME that I was the first to write about Florine (in the Reviewer in 1922). Dest-mergard is not credited with the ownership of his painting. I Consected this.

If you were here, maybe my own piece, written from a different approach, might be as good as Henry's. You have been of enormous assistance, but if you were here you could open your diaries and probably more ideas would come tumbling down like the Walis of Jericho. If there were no deadline, I'd keep this piece by me indefinitely, rewriting and recomposing it, but, fortunately, I must turn it in to the editor of Harper's Bazaar before August 15.

You told me all about Zorah one night.

Please give my greetings to Madame Lachaise. Did you remember to tell her that Daniel Caton Rich told me the WOMAN had been on exhibition several times at the Art Institute in Chicago? I am sorry you are being bothered with asthma. I am being bothered with proofs (of my GS book), manuscript (FS), unfinished photographic work, and a whole houseful of material for the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at Yale which increases every day. Tonight we are going to the Stadium to hear Pinza and Maggie Teyte. Fania expects to go into rehearsals next week....Your friend's remark about GS was very witty.

So we send our love to you,

August 8, 1946

Whouch you in the steinc lippens.

1. Not actually the first y cauto.
2. But the first supralinear piece.

3. Please ask her if she knows anything new about Mary Bell.

Miss Ettie Stettheimer
Hotel Dorset
30 West 54 Street
Manhattan

CARL VAN VECHTEN

10 CENTRAL PARK WEST

New York, N.Y.

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Dear Ettie, I don't think you need cope with all the problems Pavel brings up. Your method of writing a postal and letting time pass is the obvious corrective. Apparently, you were wise in your day about Chick Austen, tho' I didn't know he had resigned from the Hartford Atheneum... Like all photographers of painting, Juley is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Florine knew this and had certain pictures rephotographed. The fact has to be faced (only a photographer would appreciate this thoroughly) that her pictures are certainly not photogenic. Some of them are impossible to photograph at all accurately with any current technique...It is cold here too; sometimes I believe the weather is the same everywhere. Fania is back from Gloucester; she spent the weekend at the Langners'. I am working even harder than usual. I find it is much more difficult to get rid of Collections than to amass them; something you are discovering yourself. The amount of time it takes to properly explain material for disposal is enormous... However, I love all this. My Canteens are more crowded than ever and I am working hard there too, but I always have time to do anything for you, if you require anything done. I think you should send that piece in which you spoke about Lovett to him. His address is merely University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. It has occurred to me you might get professional assistance in putting the Doll House into a final shape and I think you will need this. It is so nearly complete, it SHOULD be complete. It will find an ideal home at the Museum of the City of New York. Aside from everything else connected with it, the objects in it should be CATALOGUED and DESCRIBED. The needlepoint chairs, the Albert Sterner murals, etc.... If you could turn over a room in your house to this and get a competent person to work on it, I think the whole thing could be turned out in a few weeks. This is a suggestion, not a threat!

Fania and I send much love to you.....

August 29.

Perhaps Carrie's portrait should go where the Doll House goes. Somehow it seems a PART of this exhibit.

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Miss Ettie Stettheimer
The Rockmore
Marblehead, Massachusetts

CARL VAN VECHTEN

TELEPHONE: ENDICOTT 2-8748

Dear Ettie, Now that I am actually writing I am swimming in deeper waters.
Will you please mail replies to the following questions to me by return
mail:

From what German University did you receive a Doctor's Degree?

What was the lace you used for a dinner cloth?

Is Brabantetorte correct spelling? Should it be *tam* two words?

In a quick passage I want to use neither "china" or "porcelain" referring to
a dinner at your apartment. May I use Meissen or do you prefer another
china ?

Did Archipenko paint a picture for the *Doll house* or create a statue?

I have said that Carrie never wore the uncouth kneelength evening dresses of
the twenties. Is this correct?

Was the diningroom at 76 street grey and silver, with the white and gold
screens of Florine and her mural of SPRING or am I thinking of Alwyn Court
or were the rooms similar?

Did Florine know Commissioner Robert Moses or did he know about her?

Didn't Florine plan to go to a cornerstone laying which the President
and Mrs Roosevelt planned to attend? I seem to remember something of the sort
and her disappointment that she couldn't get tickets as she had planned a
picture.

Did Florine show her ballet sketches to ANYONE?

Were you or Carrie permitted to watch Florine at work? Anybody?

If these questions(PLEASE answer all of them) lead you on to further ideas,
don't hesitate to mention them. I am breathless until I hear from you and also
my writing is at a standstill....

Gertrude's death was another great shock to me: she seemed sturdy enough to
last forever.

Love,

July 31 (Happy Birthday to YOU!)

Fania is back from the country and sends love too!

Jale

Miss Ettie Stettheimer
30 West 54 Street

Manhattan

Hotel Dorset.

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By Richard Watts Jr.

Parisian Notes on This and That

PARIS—There is no escaping the embarrassing fact that, the other temptations being what they are, it is impossible for me to get to the theater in this beautiful and distracting city . . . This, however, doesn't mean that I have been completely derelict in my obligations to show

business . . . I have, for example, managed to attend two nightclub shows, one at the Lido and the other at the Nouvelle Eve, and they were both pretty good and reasonably nude, although it may be a commentary on the Lido presentation that the best act on the bill was a fellow named Rudy Horn who juggles cups and saucers while mounted on a monicycle.

The rather modest singing lead in the Lido show is John Battles, who seemed destined for an important career in the New York theater when he appeared in the Rodgers and Hammerstein "Allegro." . . . The headliners at the Nouvelle Eve, by the way, are the Arnaud Brothers, who have been doing the same comedy act about the courtship of two birds for some 30 years in America . . . It's still a very funny act, too . . . Visiting Americans who do get to the theater here seem unanimous in the belief that the current French play which has the best chance for Broadway success is "La Cuisine des Anges," which

bears a resemblance in mood to "Arsenic and Old Lace."

Jean Anouilh

I am told that Jean Anouilh, somewhat bemused by the lack of success his plays have experienced in New York, is planning to go to America in the hope of finding out just what has been wrong with them . . . As an admirer of "Four Saints in Three Acts," I am sorry to be forced to admit that the delightful Thomson-Stein opera certainly didn't bowl Paris over . . . Air Travel is a wonderful institution when you can leave New York one evening and the next afternoon find yourself in Paris conversing with Darryl Zanuck and S. P. Eagle . . . S. P. Eagle has invited me to see "Timon of Athens" with him in London, which strikes me as one of the most remarkable dates in recorded history.

Hollywood seems to have descended on Paris en masse, and any comparison to a plague of looms would be highly ungraceful . . . As a matter of fact, many of the cinema people behave very well, if you will permit me to be

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## Subway Circuit

"MISTER ROBERTS," starring Tod Andrews, begins the Subway Circuit season at the Flatbush in Brooklyn tonight. Plays through Sunday. Curtain 8:30.

Honor' Aided by Laraine Day and Dan Clark.

2. Barbara Payton 'Trapped' A story so life-like ... could be true!

3. Tom Neal 'Danger Zone' Muscles win temporarily ... but now??

See These Three Involved Stars—In Three Really True-To-Life Dramas ... Incredible??

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## 'Dinner for Three' Set For Production in Fall

The American Play Company has optioned Herbert Kramer's "Dinner for Three" for fall production. Kramer, European director, composer and author, based the play on the comedy, "Tea for Three," produced by the Selwyns at the Maxine Elliott in 1918.

George Abbott joins Jule Styne as co-producer and director of the Edmund Beloin-Henry Garson comedy, "In Any Language." Casting is now under way and the play will be put into rehearsal Aug. 15 for pre-Broadway engagements in New Haven and Boston before its opening in New York approximately Oct. 1.

## DIO CITY MUSIC HALL

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In
here's Charley's 2"

Dearest Ettie, Everybody says you are
as well as well. I haven't bothered
you with letters before, as I know
you dislike your friends being
worried about your illnesses. But now
I not only can congratulate you on
your fine recovery, but I also have
something to send you (enclosed) which
I think will please you.

Donald Gallup is coming to spend the
day to work on the Stein manuscripts
as it is now arranged for the Yale Pr
ess to publish them, one a year.

Lots of love to you and I hope I can
see you soon.

December 1, 1950