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Open book Collier, Constance, to Rose, (also article), Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, n.d., 1954

Title Collier, Constance, to Rose, (also article), Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, n.d., 1954

Creator Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964

Date n.d., 1954

Place Germany, Germany--Berlin, Illinois--Chicago, Palestine, United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Chicago Daily News, Inc, Dramatists, American, Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi, Screenwriters

Description Ben Hecht was a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription how touched I was.

We had a little service in a room in the chapel here, about 380 people came. The casket was covered with a blanket of vibrant green fern and below were little bunches of flowers, all in water; so that it looked like a bank with flowers growing beneath it. The sprays and wreathes were around the walls. She would have hated any funeral atmosphere.

I asked Cyril Pitchard, who spoke first, to be gay and he was. He almost made me smile and relaxed

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Archival Collection Title Ben Hecht papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, Society of Collectors

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Call Number Midwest MS Hecht Box 56 Folder 1137

BibID 992595638805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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