European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse I novelist Tennenbaum ii put my foot in our Milieu was Bohemian and and trying a Long the universe of discourse and i said the Heck with Tennenbaum do not across As bluer they Are Friendly and affectionate with each mrs Tennenbaum ladled out steaming portions of Ola and Leek soup in the Kitchen of their Gray Shin few in while proudly describe of she became the first woman to play in the annual writers softball game in East Hampton five Apt she is Catcher on the artists be writers they always win have i their they never said Bat writers by very painters Art More in and communal i love to go to Ball of the House a converted stable where she lined with books in English and with n posters of a Lacomey and Tennenbaum has kept voluminous journals All appeared in print Tor the first time in Lory she wrote on an aging Lynchburg rabbi was winners selected from entrants for ban brei o the since then she has written mostly Book reviews and non cuon in a Long Island including Iroide in More literature than Kary of a Radical she was a preparation far the books ays knew she would she compared it to like a first draft of Kochel dieted in six All of to written in extreme be longhand in big spiral notebooks she took Ere with including the she does not physical process of writing la very inv new torn to Irani Iii Cathleen Nesbitt at age looking Back on romantic Days As Young the actress and the poet by Robert Musel United Prew International 0 you know anybody at this party asked the dazzling Young not a said the dazzling Young but they knew each other by of for he was Rupert Only 23 but already spoken of by literary critics As a re Mantle poet in the line of Keats and and she was Cathleen also a rising actress whose Beauty like his was among the adornments of their there was something inevitable about their meeting though the party was to Honor a Long forgotten novelist whose chief claim to Fame was his scandalous elopement with someone else wife an act that took a certain amount of social daring in edwardian sir Edward a Patron of the invited Cath Leen knowing that a legendary would be perhaps he thought at last the gifted Rupert would meet his that was almost exactly 65 years Tik other Day nes Blu opened the door of her Kensing ton apartment in London and it was easy to see in the kind Light of a Winter afternoon Why the Young in stantly had written to a Mutual Friend Cathleen ii Calami adorably she is now in her Selth no one really cheats time but the clues to the Beauty Fiat was Are All there in the Bright the Finel boned the warm she is and has been for a distinguished honoured in Queen Elizabeths recent new years honors list with the decoration of a com Mander of the order of the British she is the widow of a Happy the doting grandmother of a incredibly Only eight years and yet in the pretty apartment overlooking a quiet Square there still lingers the fragrance of the famous Romance whose end was foretold in Brookes own tragically prophetic lines if i should die in Only me that Sterei Tome Corner Field that it Lorther me died in a Comer of a foreign Field a greek Island in 1915 during world War those wonderful Days before the War world War i broke out now seem Lite the afternoon of a King Summers nes Blu i met Rupert i we Pardua in a tale at the i was a and determined not to let us extravagant get people kept saying my but you know 1 Oever liked the shape my i was always see Utt aces i liked better ban and i Wedd been Happy to Trade with the but the love letters from Brooke kept arriving and the friends were convinced hey would we didst because we were both on the rebound from other affairs and wanted to make sure that she i suppose we waited too Long and when 1 think of it i dont think Rupert would have been faithful to or he was in love with restless with a zest for that might have required the stimulation of new she confirmed All that has been said of Brookes physical Ive never seen a grown Man with such Golden hair or such deep Blue a contemporary poet wrote of him a Young Golden haired stands dreaming on the Edge of unprepared for the two Liu Lenea and said says it somewhat surprised that so Many people seem to know about her Romance with Nesbitt decided recently to retell the Story in exceedingly readable memoirs titled a Little Lave Ana Good she never kept a diary but an actress who actually saw sir Henry Irving in the Florid flight of his stage who appeared with Gerald Dumaurier and Many other great figures of show business in More than 2qq plays need not remember everything to trap a it Alt began some to years ago in her native Belfast when she was leaching French to an elocution teacher who suggested she repay the lessons with speech train the teacher had an Amateur dramatic company and gave Nesbitt a Small role which led the critic of the Bel jut Telegraph to write miss nes Blu should take up the stage she took be advice and has since delighted Andl Etti in the and on the in films and she was Rex Harrisons Mother in the original company of my fair won an emmy for her role in the award winning american to she has a Fine line in self depreciation and puts her career Down to she also alleges she was snort and plump against the fervent evidence of she is now Gossamer slim but evidently As Tough As after some 25 years mostly spent in the United she returned England at the age with the intention of but so Many roles were offered she could not refuse Tatien Early in 1977 she was asked to play in a Broadway revival of the Douai family and while learn ing her lines in a Borrower new York apartment she skidded on the unfamiliar Slippery parquet floor and suffered a double fracture of the she had to miss the time the doctors my father also healed she and he lived to he nearly she was deeply disappointed at losing the Chance to appear on Broadway again and she now waiting for someone to write a Good role for an old she reluctantly accepting that her bearing is not what it 1 Bear sir Ralph Richardson and sir John Gielgud perfectly when there on stage so 1 thought for a while that maybe 1 hear the younger players they were not speaking As precisely As we were taught to one hates to admit one is losing a Rupert Brooke had thought about All Loo but the years that take the Belt away with something it the the stars and stripes Page 15
