17 Facts About Gelett Burgess

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Frank Gelett Burgess was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist.

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In 1894, Gelett Burgess lost his job at Berkeley as a result of his involvement in an attack on one of San Francisco's three Cogswell fountains, free water fountains named after the pro-temperance advocate Henry Cogswell who had donated them to the city in 1883.

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Gelett Burgess is held in high regard at the University of California, Berkeley as a former professor and literary talent.

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At first, the magazine was edited and written primarily by Gelett Burgess, who took great delight in creating pseudonyms for himself.

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For example, in volume 1, four of the other "authors" are Gelett Burgess writing under different names.

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Gelett Burgess moved to New York City, where he wrote several books and articles for magazines including The Smart Set, Collier's, and Century.

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Gelett Burgess made several trips to France and was evidently fluent in French.

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8.

Gelett Burgess married Estelle Loomis at a Unitarian church in New York City in June 1914, and they were honeymooning in France when World War I broke out.

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Gelett Burgess was an actress and a beauty contest winner.

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Gelett Burgess was photographed shortly before their marriage by Arnold Genthe.

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Gelett Burgess wrote of Matisse's 1907 painting Blue Nude in humorist fashion:.

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Gelett Burgess wrote and illustrated several children's books about the habits of strange, baldheaded, idiosyncratic childlike creatures he called the Goops.

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Gelett Burgess created the syndicated comic strip Goops in 1924, and worked on it to its end in 1925.

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Many of Gelett Burgess's works were adapted for the screen, beginning with The Persistent Mr Prince, a short film released by Vitagraph in 1914.

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Two films based on Gelett Burgess's stories were released in 1917, The Mysterious Miss Terry and The Countess Charming.

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Gelett Burgess's definition of "blurb" is "a flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial".

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Gelett Burgess was a friend of the British writer Oliver Onions, and encouraged Onions to write fiction.