Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Q. Wasn't that was Bobbie Herndon's Godmother?
A. And named for the daughter that Helen Hays lost. That play. . .Kitty had #e lead, and phe
twins played in it. I think they were eight at the time. They had their birthday. It was in October.
Oh, they put on a pasty for them, but what they did was, one would play one night, the other
would play the next night so they weren't up too late and the play was on for tight or ten days.
Oh gosh, what's the name of that play? It's a famous play, and oh, it was kind of an ether@
thing with a fairy Godmother and stuff, but it was funny. The last night of thelplay, the kid4 had
identical costumes and they came and, the fairy Godmother or something in
Kitty, she came oh, no, it was the director of the play who came on with one
for the director to come out and she came out and took care of which ever
she went like this ( demonstrates with his finger) and the other one came
said, "We'll let you all in on it. It's their birthday tonight. You saw this
the play, and this one in the last half of the play. Come join us for a
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Q. Phil, I have neglected to ask you where and when you were married?
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A. Well, we were married in Evanston, Illinois, on May the 8, 1943 and we re married i~ St.
Mary's Cathedral Church in Evanston at Maggie Browns house there in Ev $ ton and, anyay
we were married, of course the war was on deep and we were married without benefit of
relatives, There was a bit of, .
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.I was Catholic and Kitty's father was past Potantate of the hrine,
and in those days they didn't mix very well, but anyway we went ahead and g t married at
Maggie's and we had a wonderful little wedding of twelve or fdteen people. ent over to e
Edgewater Beach Hotel. I'd driven all night. I was at Dayton, Ohio at the e, at Pattersgn
Field, and I'd driven all night from Dayton. . . $
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Q. Wha$ service were you in? j
A. I was a civilian as an engineerlarchitect and I was chief draftsman for the
the Fairfield Air Depot it was called. They could control me by keeping me
the military because they'd have draftsmen come in and then they ship out.
Q. What were you drafting?
A. Oh, all ldnds of stuff for the Air Forces there. "Fly Devils" and stuff. ' gs like that.
Q. And then you stayed at the Edgewater Hotel and then she went back. . . .
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A. Saturday night I drove all night and Friday night to get to Chicago. We
afternoon. We had tKe reception at Maggies, we went to the Edgewater
night. . .we all got together the next day anyway. . .as a matter of fact I
got to the hotel about eight thirty and about eleven thirty or twelve, the
friend Maggie said, "Hey you two aught to be hungry now. It's time
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