Mark Heyman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Q: What kind of celebrities m? You nrerrtioned wrru; Hollm
people,
A: Yes. We had mre in Arizona than in Wisconsin because wrrne
wintered in Hxxdx and then, of ccrurse, it ms near Cdlifod.
Although wgnealsomm in the sumruerasvisitors if theywere friends
f m Wisccnsin. The pecq?le I saw, and samths had -im to talk
to because we had cocktails before dinner or we had to hb thm m a
tour before they met Mr. Wright. I jatkd - dam a few of their mms,
there~MargaEetsmger. -
Q: Let's talk abmt each of these Sn order. All right.
you like?
A: Well, nkay. what U d
Q: Well, just arrythirrgyaurecall frranthat . . .
A: About Maqm2.t Sanger?
Q: Yes.
A: Well, that she was alive. It was amazirq. I didn't ha a she was
alive. Imanlyawareofherbymti&andIbeliare&atea
W with us. I can't rewmber which one it was d she spake after
them. Ican~lanedist~phrasethatthsstateof
-icut is going to have to-well, they passed smz kind of a law,
at that tlme in the fifties, sareWrg regulating the sale of birth
amtml. So, she said, 'The state of -icut is going to have to
police into wery in Connecticut. (laughs) I dmgt
bow to0 nolch abaut: her. I man, I saw her briefly.
Mr. and m. Henry Luce m freqtuent visitors because, I think, they
hadawirrterWinArizmadwraetimesm. Imecartmwhen~
was sartvewhsre else. Mrs. Lute was mre fridywithMrs. Wright,
Q: Arry impression of her or . . .
A: ShewaslikeMrs.Wrj-Fpltina~way. Shewasvery
intelligent, very aggressive, and very sure of herself. I We just
besn readirrg abaut: her lately in a qle of books that have ccane out.
Shewassmrtardtough, andsowasLuce. IwasstandingIsear33ydI
got into an argument with I-, Mr. and Mrs. Wright's dau#ker, on
Vhethermnot~hl~ga~hwastalkingdrJwntoitsreaders. Wewere
taWrqabartthi-ywdealtwithcertainbmes. Mamatterof
fact, I don't 3aaJ if it vms before or after that that Mr. Wright
chided luce an T h prhtw a false story. [The wmte that] he had
started a fire fake fireplace of his sute of rams in the
Plaza Hotel. Well, t w reasons ~ he C3CILZ1dnft have dare it. Om, he
laew that the fkmplace was fake atwl W secmi plm he couldn't have
dane it. One of my first assigrmrents at Taliesinwhen I got there was
tohelpnwks~~~forthat~teofroanrsatldredacom~it
in red and black ard it [might's design] was very beautiful. We
didn't do all of the furniture b.rt we added to it. One of the
we did was to crcnrer the fimplace. Mr. Wright designed it. We
rnade the p1- ewer. I remalkc enermeling it in Arizm. We