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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943
1943-04-14: Page 06
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"Hamilton and Jefferson" for they really should be read and studied together. Monday night I saw the stage performance of "A Star and Garter" with G.R. Lee and Billy Clark-without the e you"ll be glad to note. It was full of earthy wit, ribald songs, scantily clad girls, slapstick comedy. But it was harmless and gay, and I laughed and had a good time. Afterwards I took a cab over to the Waldorf-Astoria where I had reserved a table in the Wedgwood room for the supper hour. As a boy, dinner was at noon, supper at six oclock. Later, I learned that dinner, more properly, was in the evening, lunch was the mid-day meal, and supper came only as a snack on Sunday night. Now I find that the supper hour is around mid-night after all the shows are out. My sole purpose in going to the Waldorf was to hear Alec Templeton, the blind pianist, who plays each night at 12:15. I was not disappointed. He gave me the most enjoyable forty minutes I have spent in a long time. There in the beautiful Wedgwood room with its soft purple walls, its lovely curtains in mild green pastels, its ceiling the color of rich white leather, I sat over my plate of delicious Lobster Newburg and heard a master at his work. Mr. Templeton has a pleasant,
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"Hamilton and Jefferson" for they really should be read and studied together. Monday night I saw the stage performance of "A Star and Garter" with G.R. Lee and Billy Clark-without the e you"ll be glad to note. It was full of earthy wit, ribald songs, scantily clad girls, slapstick comedy. But it was harmless and gay, and I laughed and had a good time. Afterwards I took a cab over to the Waldorf-Astoria where I had reserved a table in the Wedgwood room for the supper hour. As a boy, dinner was at noon, supper at six oclock. Later, I learned that dinner, more properly, was in the evening, lunch was the mid-day meal, and supper came only as a snack on Sunday night. Now I find that the supper hour is around mid-night after all the shows are out. My sole purpose in going to the Waldorf was to hear Alec Templeton, the blind pianist, who plays each night at 12:15. I was not disappointed. He gave me the most enjoyable forty minutes I have spent in a long time. There in the beautiful Wedgwood room with its soft purple walls, its lovely curtains in mild green pastels, its ceiling the color of rich white leather, I sat over my plate of delicious Lobster Newburg and heard a master at his work. Mr. Templeton has a pleasant,
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