https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:13:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1383 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:21:06 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1383 In his eight decades, Sadakichi Hartmann fried eggs with Walt Whitman, discussed verse with Stéphane Mallarmé, and drank with John Barrymore, who once described him as "a living freak presumably sired by Mephistopheles out of Madame Butterfly." Critic, poet, novelist, playwright, dancer, actor, and swaggering egotist, Hartmann might lift your watch]]>