Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Commonplace Book

'...I wonder if you met that appalling woman Hedda Hopper? I had trouble with her, so I've told everybody that I heard on the best authority that the very bad outbreak of rabies in Hollywood was due to the fact that Miss Hopper had pursued the dogs and succeeded in biting them. I added that personally I didn't believe a word of it - for, after all, they run very fast!'

from a letter to John Gielgud, 12 May 1953 in Selected Letters 1919-1964 by Edith Sitwell

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