Mark Heyman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

figure. But I wanted to go. So, and this I ratmbe clearly, I made
it my Ws- me day to get a lot of quarkrs when I went to work
fm Lrmg BBa& to Queens Village. I didntt want to use the telephone
in the office. I didn't tell -what I was do-. There was a
phone booth abcrut or bloc3cs away. So, at lunch haw, I went
mtto~phonebooth2mdthenIr852chedinnrypocketardtookout
all of these m. I didn't knuwhmnuch it would cost. It
prabablywas aknrttwodollam. .I didn't knmhawlaqthe call would
last. I had a lot of quarters. I put than rrm the &elf. I didn't
-the mmkc so, I got 1 9 distance. I had no prablm getting
Frank LLoydWrightls narmber. In any case, they rang the mrmber. The
mrmber rings. A voice amwered ard I said, ''Hello. I'm W k Heylllan
fram Lmg Islard and I havewritten a letter toMr. Wright abcRlt the
FellclWshi~.~~ And the voice says, Wark. Yes, Mark." It turned out
to have been Gme Masselink, was Mr. Wright's secretary, one of
the senior apprmtices. Arrd here, what surprised me was that he
called me by ny first nmne. Well, later I lmew that he nxd all of
the mail. And whether he nry narc or mt, that's haw he
would react. I have a sense that the mil was rawer amwered flrcan
pople who hquired. lhat may have been the case at scarre tb, but it
seems logical for them not to, because that was a vewy goad smeahg
&ice ta see *Is scrims. So, as smn as su&xdy calls, then
you're =ious, ym see. And he said, Wck. Yes, Mark. Yes. Yes.tt
And I said, Well, I wrote this letter.f1 I explained the mle thing
whia he didntt have to hear. He said, 'Well, Mark. Mr. Wright will
be in * Plaza Hotel next week. Why don't ycru call him up then and
see him." And I said, 'Whm will he be in the Plaza He said,
'Well, hets go- Thurday. Hetll be w. Hets gut an appintmmt
with -erh~im,~~ and he tells me this whole string of events and I
didnwtknuwwhat it-all*. AllIwaslistenirrgtowas~
Lloyd Wright wuuld be in New York, whim was twenty miles away. And I
said, TUl right. All righLtt And I said, ~~Dmnk yau, Mr.
Ma.sselink.It [Hetoldmehisname.] HthenI-tohavea
date in New York m miday night. I druve to New York and I
thengoingtoa~boothdcdlling~~lazaWoteldthe
aperator be- very busy =id, ''Yes. Hello1 Plaza Hntel. Yes. And
I said, Wrank Lloyd Wright.t1 I felt a little Pluury there. Vmnk
Uoyd Wright. Just amimte.tl M then the @me rang, and thevoice
said, llY~.*t I said, '1 wmld like to speak to Frank Lloyd Wight.lt
Anl the voice said, llYes.lt I mid, I*. Wright." He said, *tY~.ll I
- said, "1 spoke to Mr. Masselink last week and he said for me to call
you ycxl to the He said, Van you ccme in tamrrr~~
at ten o'clock?11 I said, I1Yes. Mr. Wri#ktq He said, ''All right.
up.
~hextrao~IgotbackinmycarandI~to~ttan. I
lnusthavehenthereanhcxlrearly. Iparhdthecar. Iwalhdover
to the Plaza Hatel. Let's see. I think I had to go to the desk to
find cut where his roanwas. I guess they just gave it to me. It was
221 or 1h that. I'd never been upstairs in the Plaza or
even in the lobby.
Q: were you nervcrus?