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<\/a>Alice a bit droopy, Gertrude still smiling!<\/p><\/div>\n
In a nutshell, here is their April itinerary:<\/p>\n
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- Arrive in Pasadena, Gertrude lectures at Community Playhouse.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Party in Beverly Hills. Guests include Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, <\/em>Mary Pickford, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, (Gertrude had requested that he attend, as she was a big fan of his), and Anita Loos, who became a long-time friend of Alice’s.<\/em><\/em><\/em>\n
![\"Anita](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/AnitaLoos.jpg\")
<\/a>Anita Loos of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” fame<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Chaplin](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chaplin.jpg\")
<\/a>Chaplin and Goddard<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n
- They rent a car to drive to San Francisco.<\/em><\/li>\n
- April 8th, arrive in San Francisco, stay at Mark Hopkins Hotel.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 9th, P.E.N. dinner at Bohemian Club, guest of Gertrude Atherton.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 10th, \u201cNarration lecture 1,\u201d English Club, Stanford University.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 11th , \u201cWhat Is English Literature?\u201d lecture, San Francisco Women\u2019s City Club.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 12th , \u201cPictures,\u201d lecture, San Francisco Women\u2019s City Club.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Meets San Francisco Mayor Angelo J. Rossi and given the key to the city.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 13th, \u201cPoetry And Grammer\u201d lecture, Mills College.<\/em><\/li>\n
- \u00a0Gertrude visits sites where she lived in Oakland.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 15th, \u201cNarration lecture 1\u201d, UC Berkeley.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 17th, \u201cPictures\u201d lecture, Stanford University.<\/em><\/li>\n
- 19th, fly to Chicago via Omaha.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Remainder of the month, spend time with friends in Chicago and New York.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Leave for Europe on S.S. Champlain May 4th.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"Partially](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/images.jpg\")
<\/a>Partially completed Golden Gate Bridge. It would not open till 1937.<\/p><\/div>\n
Among their hosts in San Francisco was one of the grande dames of American literature, Gertrude Atherton. This Gertrude was almost twenty years older than G. Stein and had published her first novel in 1888. She continued writing until 1946 with books often set in her native California. I bought a copy of Atherton\u2019s biography a few months ago and right away checked the index to find any references to GertrudeandAlice.<\/p>\n
![\"Gertrude](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gertrude-atherton-sitting-in-her-study-297x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Gertrude Atherton in repose<\/p><\/div>\n
There were several, but the one that excited me the most was in regards to a letter in which G. Stein mentioned that she had received the key to the city in San Francisco. I had uncovered that fact more than twenty years ago in the appendix to the collected letters of Stein and Thornton Wilder, but when I tried to verify the event\u00a0in the History Center of the San Francisco Public Library, Stein wasn\u2019t listed on a document that supposedly contained all of the city\u2019s key recipients.<\/p>\n
Now, I feel confident that she and Alice indeed did receive that key from Mayor Rossi and can only speculate what they did with it or what happened to it.<\/p>\n
![\"The](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Rossi.jpg\")
<\/a>The dapper Angelo J. Rossi<\/p><\/div>\n
Where it ended up at the rue de Fleurus was probably determined by its size. If it was small, Alice may have added it to her key ring of household keys, which I envision as one of those large metal rings that a Mother Abbess used to carry around the convent, securing all of the doors to protect the sisters and commodities in her charge!<\/p>\n
![\"The](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/keys.jpg\")
<\/a>The keys of Sister M. Mary Mary<\/p><\/div>\n
If it was large, but not larger than a bread box, maybe it was hung on the wall in the six inch space between two Picassos on the right hand wall of the salon, a few paintings over from the Matisses.<\/p>\n
![\"Larger](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/key.jpg\")
<\/a>Larger than a breadbox?<\/p><\/div>\n
As to its whereabouts today, I\u2019ll continue my sleuthing or ,who knows, it may show up on e Bay!<\/p>\n
And then, lest we forget, today is Alice\u2019s 138th<\/sup> birthday! Three weeks ago, an Alice quote and illustration was included in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. Its appearance once again reinforced the ongoing popularity of GetrudeandAlice \u2013 not at the level of the daily newspaper stories during the lecture tour, but still very noteworthy.<\/p>\n
- Party in Beverly Hills. Guests include Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, <\/em>Mary Pickford, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, (Gertrude had requested that he attend, as she was a big fan of his), and Anita Loos, who became a long-time friend of Alice’s.<\/em><\/em><\/em>\n
![\"Alice](\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Alice-B.-From-WSJ-Apr-18-2015-10-56-PM-600x201.jpg\")
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