COURTEAULT PascalLivre Rare Book
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the Hungarian Actress VALERIE DELACORTE to her friend City Center Producer Jean Dalrymple offering to help out following a fire at Jean's property.
1977réf. 100809May 20 1977. 1977. Fine. - Over 80 words penned on both sides of her husband George Delacorte's 7-7/8 inch high by 5 inch wide stationery. Writing to her friend Jean Dalrymple the Hungarian actress Valerie Delacorte expresses her wish to help "I heard that due to the fire you have some unexpected expenses with your lovely place in Danbury." Having enjoyed her stays there in the past she states "I sic like to send a contribution toward whatever you have to do there." She mentions that she and her husband the philanthropist George Delacorte are back in Florida and that they'll be moving to Sharon. Signed "Valerie". Folded for mailing else fine. The Hungarian actress Valerie Pascal Delacorte nee Valeria Hidveghy 1914-2011 escaped from the Iron Curtain to marry the film producer Gabriel Pascal. She safeguarded her husband's correspondence and legacy following his death and penned her memoir "The Disciple and His Devil: Gabriel Pascal and Bernard Shaw". She subsequently married the publisher and founder of "Dell" publishing George T. Delacorte Jr. in 1959. She outlived her second husband as well and in 1991 made a donation of a million dollars and 5 Old Master paintings to the Norton Museum of Art. She would go on to donate 6o paintings to the museum. The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world. May 20, 1977.
