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General gossip of authors and writers

"General gossip of authors and writers." Current Literature. 01 Jan. 1888: 476-480.
Type: 
magazine
Genre: 
essay, journalism
Abstract: 

This short blurb from Current Literature reports on the current (1888) whereabouts of several former members of the Pfaff's Bohemian group.

People Mentioned in this Work

Aldrich, Thomas [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"T.B. Aldrich has achieved lasting fame as a poet and novelist, and is now the serious-minded editor of the Atlantic Monthly, with two sons in college."

Arnold, George [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Bellew, Frank [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Clapp, Henry [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Clare, Ada [pages:479]

The article mentions that she, Ned Wilkins, "and the bucket of beer which Clapp used to carry into the office every afternoon" assisted Winter with the dramatic criticisms for the Saturday Press.

Daly, John [pages:479]

The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Augustin Daly has drifted from dramatic critic on the Times, and nights and days of roystering, to the proprietorship of a theater, and the management of the leading comedy company in the metropolis."

Fiske, Stephen [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Stephen Fiske, one of the youngest of the 'Pfaff Crowd,' is now a theatrical manager and critic, whose sharp pen has not been a whit dulled by time."

Gardette, Charles [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Halpine, Charles [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." Listed here as Charles G. Halpine.

Halpine, Charles [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." Listed here as Charles G. Halpine.

House, Edward [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Ned House spent fifteen or twenty years as American Consul at some port in Japan. When he came back, not long ago, he found that few besides his old-time comrades remembered him."

Howland, Edward [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Edward Howland, who succeeded Clapp as editor of the Saturday Press, married a strong-minded New England school-teacher, who imbued him with schemes for the amelioration of the human race, and the pair are now members of the American socialistic colony at Topolobampo, in Mexico. Queer ending, isn't it, to the life of a man who began his career as editor of a wild, devil-may-care Bohemian organ?"

Leland, Charles [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Nathan D. Urner, who was once city editor on the Tribune, and Charles G. Leland of Hans Breitmann fame, both lead retired lives, but are still fruitful literary workers."

Menken, Adah [pages:479]

The article mentions that Orpheus Kerr "unconsciously did the funniest thing of his life when he married the beautiful and seductive Adah Isaacs Menken, thinking that he could reform her. She proved false and faithless to him, as she had to half a dozen other men, but Kerr sincerely loved her, and the blow, which his own credulity brought him, was a cruel and lasting one."

Newell, Robert [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Orpehus C. Kerr, for several years the most popular humorist of the times--his keen and pungent satires on McClellan in the early days of the war made his name a household word--unconsciously did the funniest thing of his life when he married the beautiful and seductive Adah Isaacs Menken, thinking that he could reform her. She proved false and faithless to him, as she had to half a dozen other men, but Kerr sincerely loved her, and the blow, which his own credulity brought him, was a cruel and lasting one. He is now living quietly in Jersey City, and occasionally makes his appearance as a novelist before a public that has wholly forgotten that he was ever a professional fun-maker."

O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

The Saturday Press [pages:479]

The article mentions that William Winter wrote the dramatic criticisms, "assisted by Ned Wilkins, Ada Clare, and the bucket of beer which Clapp used to carry into the office every afternoon."

Shanly (Shanley), Charles [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Shepherd, Nathaniel [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Thomas, James [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Thomson, Mortimer [pages:479]

Thompson is mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Urner, Nathan [pages:479]

Urner is mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Nathan D. Urner, who was once city editor on the Tribune, and Charles G. Leland of Hans Breitmann fame, both lead retired lives, but are still fruitful literary workers."

Ward, Artemus [pages:479]

Ward is mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Whitman, Walt [pages:479]

Whitman is mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

Wilkins, Edward (Ned) [pages:479]

Wilkins is mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."

The article mentions that he, Ada Clare, "and the bucket of beer which Clapp used to carry into the office every afternoon" assisted Winter with the dramatic criticisms for the Saturday Press.

Winter, William [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News." The blurb gives "updates" on the whereabouts of many of the former Bohemians.

"Willie Winter, originally a Harvard graduate, who has studied law, but given it up for the life of a newspaper writer, and whom Clapp made the dramatic critic of the Saturday Press, is now a discriminating and scholarly member of the Tribune staff, a poet of taste and refinement, and a writer of dainty books of travel. He is happily married, with a pleasant home on Staten Island, and lives over again only in memory the days when he wrote the dramatic criticisms of the Press, assisted by Ned Wilkins, Ada Clare, and the bucket of beer which Clapp used to carry into the office every afternoon."

Wood, Frank [pages:479]

Mentioned as one of the Bohemians at Pfaff's "gossiped" about by Rufus B. Wilson in a "reminiscent letter to the Galveston News."