Dennis King – This & That

There are two other interesting items amongst the material sent to me by the New York Public Library (see previous entry).

One of them shows a copy of a portrait of Dennis by an English artist called Miss F. Enid Stoddard. Evidently she also painted the Prince of Wales and Mussolini! The item mentions that “Mr King has been in Chicago since Labor day of 1926 in the part of Villon in ‘The Vagabond King’.” so that dates it. Where is that portrait now, I wonder?

The other, an undated fragment entitled “Notes from luncheon with Dennis King” says:

“King played four weeks of ‘Benjamin Franklin’ through Pennsylvania, down as far as West Virginia. The one and a half hour dramatic lecture is called ‘Go Fly A Kite’ and is based on an enormous amount of research personally done on Franklin by King, who believes him to have been one of the most brilliant men in the history of the U.S.A.”