Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence; Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. Correspondence
Dear Gorham: I am delighted that you have found so much to hold your
interest in Sommer’s work. Some later things that he had recently shown
me only confirm my convictions the more. I’ll send you more of his work
as soon as I can assemble what I want to. Sent two watercolours to _The
Dial_ again last week, which I don’t see how they can let pass by--but
all things are possible to them. --/--/ There is a French-Swiss artist
here just eight months from Paris,--doing very interesting work with a
peculiar sharp diabolism in it. Willy E. Lescaze. His work at a local
exhibition here recently caused a terrible furor, being in company with
Burchfield’s, the only work worth looking at. It amuses me to see
Lescaze praise Sommer’s work--there [are] all the differences between
them that distinguish Baudelaire from Rabelais. I recently sent some of
L’s work to _The Little Review_ along with S’s--but what ever keeps
Margaret Anderson so impolitely silent I cannot figure out. Do what I
will, I can’t seem to get a word out of her. I begin to despair. At
least I hope she will return the drawings someday. If you want more to
take about with you, you might call on her when you next are in town and
find out if she wants them. If not you will find some interesting
additions to add to your bundle. I cannot but feel that there is an
audience in N.Y. ready for such work. Sommer has tried Cleveland people
and found them so indifferent that he didn’t even send one canvas or
sheet to this last exhibition here. In one way, a mistake, I think.
Before I forget your request,--_William Sommer_ is as completely as he
signs himself.
Went yesterday to see the first movie for a long time. Did you see
it--_Deception_--the foreign picture of the affairs of Henry VIII and
Anne Boleyn? It really was stimulating. I could wish for more of such
fare, even though it should (horrid thought!) impoverish our native
celluloid manufactories. There were mob scenes in it, perfect in every
detail, that only the screen can produce. And the old sensualist king
was well acted.
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