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Nile Kinnick correspondence, December 1942-March 1943
1943-02-04: Page 02
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air register to make them raise didn't we? On my way over from the Statler I noticed that "Springtime for Henry" was playing at the Colonial, starring Edward Everett Horton a Phi Psi of the first water. You will recall that I met him in Cedar Rapids in the spring of 1940 when he had this same play on the road. In fact he asked me to get a date and sit in the wings backstage to watch the performance - all of which I did. Feeling that I had gotten to know him pretty well, I thought I would be justified in dropping in on him in Boston to say hello. Acting on that impulse I presented myself at his dressing room around eleven oclock after the play was over. Happily enough he remembered me and seemed quite pleased that I had dropped in. In fact I hadn't talked with two minutes before he asked if I would like to join a little party he was giving at the Copley-Plaza. After demurring a bit I was very glad to accept. In the group was Mr. Duffy (his manager) and his wife, Charles Gentry, a prominent dramatic critic from Detroit, and Marjorie Wilson, one of the girls in Horton's play. I really
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air register to make them raise didn't we? On my way over from the Statler I noticed that "Springtime for Henry" was playing at the Colonial, starring Edward Everett Horton a Phi Psi of the first water. You will recall that I met him in Cedar Rapids in the spring of 1940 when he had this same play on the road. In fact he asked me to get a date and sit in the wings backstage to watch the performance - all of which I did. Feeling that I had gotten to know him pretty well, I thought I would be justified in dropping in on him in Boston to say hello. Acting on that impulse I presented myself at his dressing room around eleven oclock after the play was over. Happily enough he remembered me and seemed quite pleased that I had dropped in. In fact I hadn't talked with two minutes before he asked if I would like to join a little party he was giving at the Copley-Plaza. After demurring a bit I was very glad to accept. In the group was Mr. Duffy (his manager) and his wife, Charles Gentry, a prominent dramatic critic from Detroit, and Marjorie Wilson, one of the girls in Horton's play. I really
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