{"id":4692,"date":"2013-02-03T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2013-02-03T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:54:44","slug":"happy-birthday-with-the-gertrudeandalice-vs-gertrude-or-alice-vs-gertrude-super-bowl-xlvii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/03\/happy-birthday-with-the-gertrudeandalice-vs-gertrude-or-alice-vs-gertrude-super-bowl-xlvii\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday with the GertrudeandAlice vs. Gertrude or Alice vs. Gertrude Super Bowl XLVII…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was Tom Hachtman who called to my attention that this year\u2019s Super Bowl was really a Gertrude Stein Super Bowl because it\u2019s her 139th<\/sup> birthday \u00a0on February 3rd. Also this year’s two football teams, the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, have ties to GertrudeandAlice.<\/p>\n

In reality it is either a \u201cGertrudeandAlice vs. Gertrude Super Bowl\u201d as both ladies lived in San Francisco, Gertrude for only a couple of years after leaving the there of Oakland and then spending a few years in Baltimore before heading to Europe.\u00a0 Or an \u201cAlice vs. Gertrude Super Bowl\u201d if we don\u2019t want to count Gertrude\u2019s few years \u00a0in Frisco (sorry!) and give more weight to the Baltimore Steins.\u00a0 But then, if we factor in the birthday, maybe Alice will forfeit her involvement and allow it to be solely a Gertrude Stein Super Bowl!<\/p>\n

\""Gimme<\/a>

“Gimme a 4 !” “4 !” “Gimme a 9 !” “9 !” “Gimme a small e !” “Small e !” Gimme a small r !” “Small r !”<\/strong> (Tom Hachtman, 2013)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Though it may be hard to imagine either of them jumping up and screaming when there\u2019s a touchdown or joining \u00a0in cheers (except in the brillant mind of Tom Hachtman!), Gertrude probably enjoyed the repetition of the cheers!\u00a0 Alice probably sat there with her kid-gloved hands demurely in her lap thinking of a tasty, \u00a0post-game, \u00a0gourmet hot dog as the rest of the crowd went wild.<\/p>\n

\""...catsup<\/a>

“…catsup – horror of horrors…” – Alice B. Toklas Cookbook<\/p><\/div>\n

Nonetheless, it\u2019s fun to place them in the rough and tumble world of American football, which they did as a matter of fact enjoy (that may be too strong a word) during the American lecture tour in the 1930s.\u00a0 They attended the Dartmouth vs. Yale game in November of 1934 the guests of Alfred Harcourt the publisher of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS<\/strong>. \u00a0Dartmouth lost to Yale 2 – 7.<\/p>\n

\"Nov.1934Yale_vs_Dartmouth\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Gertrude recounts the experience in\u00a0EVERYBODY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY<\/strong>, the sequel to\u00a0THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWell anyway when we were there at the ball-ground everything was orderly and we went in.\u00a0 I had not been inside a stadium since the days of bull-fighting in Spain before and during the war, and getting in while a crowd is getting in is always exciting, in an outside place more than in an inside place beside there are so many more of them.\u00a0 We were seated on the Dartmouth side because Harcourt is a Dartmouth man\u2026we did see them playing football not very well it must be said not very well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\""Rah-rah<\/a>

“Rah-rah ! Shish-kum-bah ! It’s time for the picadors !<\/strong> (Tom Hachtman, 2013)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

But dear reader don\u2019t be disheartened by the \u201cnot very wells,\u201d\u00a0 as Ms. Stein goes on and becomes quite excited \u00a0about numerology\u00a0 and comparing the players to \u201cRed Indians:\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cBut the preparation was interesting that they did well\u2026there are two things about football that anybody can like.\u00a0 They live by numbers, numbers are everything to them and their preparation is like any savage dancing, they do what Red Indians do when they are dancing, and their movement is angular like the Red Indians move.\u00a0 When they lean over and they are on their hands and feet and they are squatting they are like an Indian dance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\""And<\/a>

“And then we’ll do the Hail Great Spirit pass for the win !”<\/p><\/div>\n

And before she knew it, \u00a0there was more excitement since the autograph hounds and drunks descended:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026those around us came to know that I was there, a very little boy came from somewhere and he asked me to write my name, I did.\u00a0 And then from everywhere came programmes and I would write my name and then there was a man he was very drunk and his wife was coaxing him along I suppose it was his wife and anyway she was coaxing him along and he said he had to see me and I just had to see him,\u00a0 and I did see him and he did see me\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\""For<\/a>

“For Brewsie from Ms. Gertrude Stein !”<\/p><\/div>\n

Before I wish happy birthday to the Lady of the Day, a few more Steinian\/Super Bowl connections.<\/p>\n

Another stop on the 1934-35 lecture tour was the University of Virginia, where, since Gertrude was a big Edgar Allan Poe fan, (he died in Baltimore \u00a0in 1849<\/strong> !), she spoke to the Raven Society and was given a key to Poe\u2019s university room:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c\u2026it is a Yale key with Raven on one side and Virginia on the other, and of course it is just a Yale key and perhaps it is given to everyone but I do not think so\u2026I will always carry it in the bill folder I bought on Fifth Avenue and with the permission to drive that I got in California.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\""Once<\/a>

“Once upon a midnight dreary…”<\/p><\/div>\n

Lastly, there is Gertrude\u2019s love of saints, with more than four of them frolicking in her opera and the big game being in the city of the Saints, also a stop on the lecture tour in 1935:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cSherwood Anderson was in New Orleans and that was a pleasure\u00a0 and he brought us to the hotel twenty-five oranges for twenty-five cents and they were very sweet oranges and we ate them all together and it was a pleasure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And that is that\u2026may the best team win as GertrudeandAlice angelically cheer from above.\u00a0 And to you, Gertrude, the happiest of birthdays !<\/p>\n

\"Footballcake\"<\/a><\/p>\n

PS<\/p>\n

The March 2rd<\/sup>\u00a0post will be a tribute to Fritz Peters, the Fritz in GERTRUDE AND ALICE AND FRITZ AND TOM<\/strong> who would have been 100 years old.<\/p>\n

So if you (or any friends) don\u2019t have copies of the book and need another copy or 2 or 3, to peruse on this special day, contact me for the anniversary half-price sale, $10.0, (that\u2019s $10 with one zero left off not $100, though who knows how the books may appreciate!) with a one-of-a-kind anniversary autograph!<\/p>\n

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