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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943
1943-04-14: Page 05
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the Century room of the Commodore Hotel where I was staying, and I saw Jan Savitt at the Strand Theatre-all of this primarily of interest to George. Big, lovable Ethel Waters was making a local appearance with the latter. I really enjoyed her rendition of "Stormy Weather." The Berry brothers, whom you may have seen in the movies, were also on the bill. Keep an eye out for Bob Dupont should he ever appear at the Orpheum in Omaha. He is the best juggler I have ever seen. Gus would really have gone for him. "The Patriots" a play about Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson during the early days of our country, I saw one afternoon. It showed the incomparable, impetuous Hamilton in a more unfavorable light than Jefferson, just as Atherton's biography of the former pictured Jefferson to a disadvantage. Certainly, these two great men stood for diametrically opposite philosophys of government. Happily, Washington, that venerable man, was in between exercising this genius for compromise. The complete triumph of either of these powerful ideas would not have been good. Their reconciliation guaranteed to this country and sound body and a great soul. In looking for books on Jefferson don't neglect Bowers'
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the Century room of the Commodore Hotel where I was staying, and I saw Jan Savitt at the Strand Theatre-all of this primarily of interest to George. Big, lovable Ethel Waters was making a local appearance with the latter. I really enjoyed her rendition of "Stormy Weather." The Berry brothers, whom you may have seen in the movies, were also on the bill. Keep an eye out for Bob Dupont should he ever appear at the Orpheum in Omaha. He is the best juggler I have ever seen. Gus would really have gone for him. "The Patriots" a play about Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson during the early days of our country, I saw one afternoon. It showed the incomparable, impetuous Hamilton in a more unfavorable light than Jefferson, just as Atherton's biography of the former pictured Jefferson to a disadvantage. Certainly, these two great men stood for diametrically opposite philosophys of government. Happily, Washington, that venerable man, was in between exercising this genius for compromise. The complete triumph of either of these powerful ideas would not have been good. Their reconciliation guaranteed to this country and sound body and a great soul. In looking for books on Jefferson don't neglect Bowers'
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