The Devil's Gentleman (53 page)

15. According to Plank, Dreiser began to compose his novel in January 1915. As far back as 1901, he had worked on a book with the same title. Plank, however, along with other Dreiser scholars, believes that this first manuscript was an early version of Dreiser’s autobiographical book,
The Genius,
entirely different from the later, Molineux-based work. See Plank, p. 140, n.1.

16. Plank, pp. 145–73.

17. Ibid., pp. 141 and 143.

18. The most complete account of the Chester Gillette-Grace Brown case (which also includes some interesting material on Dreiser and
The “Rake”
) is Craig Brown,
Murder in the Adirondacks
(Utica, NY: North Country Books, 1986).

19.
New York World,
January 11, 1903, Section E, p. 7.

20.
Brooklyn Eagle,
October 12, 1903, p. 2.

21.
New York Times,
February 20, 1904, p. 1.

22.
New York World,
October 15, 1908, p. 8.

23.
New York World,
October 14, 1911, p. 7.

24.
Brooklyn Eagle,
December 31, 1902, p. 1.

25.
New York World,
January 17, 1903, p. 16.

26.
New York Times,
February 14, 1903, p. 12.

27. Roland Molineux,
Vice Admiral of the Blue
(New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1903), p. 97.

28. Roland Molineux, “The Court of Rehabilitation,” privately printed, 1907, thirty pages. Also see
New York Times,
September 29, 1907, p. 5.

29.
New York Times,
March 10, 1903, p. 9.

30. William Winter,
The Life of David Belasco,
Vol. 2 (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1918), pp. 389–90.

31.
New York Times,
November 8, 1913, p. 6;
New York World,
November 8, 1913, p. 5.

32.
New York Times,
November 12, 1913, p. 9.

33. Winter, pp. 390–91.

34.
New York World,
September 7, 1914, p. 14;
New York Times,
September 7, 1914, p. 12.

35. Ibid.

36. Winter, p. 391.

37.
New York World,
June 11, 1915, p. 12.

38. The last of these gifts stands in stark contrast to Roland’s reputed anti-Semitic sentiments. See Pejsa, p. 30.

39. ELM’s private papers.

40.
Brooklyn Eagle,
June 11, 1915, p. 4, and June 13, 1915, p. 1.

41.
New York World,
June 12, 1915, p. 11.

42.
New York Times,
September 7, 1914, p. 12.

43.
New York World,
November 3, 1917, p. 12.

44.
New York Journal,
April 2, 1899, p. 42;
New York Times,
January 28, 1899, p. 13.

45.
New York Times,
May 13, 1905, p. 16, and March 14, 1916, p. 7; Klaus, pp. 27–28.

46.
New York Times,
March 30, 1904, p. 9.

47.
Los Angeles Times,
July 7, 1908, p. 1.

48. Death certificate, obtained from the registrar-recorder/county clerk, County of Los Angeles.

49. Under the headline “Former Mrs. Molineux to Go on Stage,” the
Chicago Daily Tribune
of August 27, 1905, ran a piece about Blanche’s renewed plans to “appear before the footlights in vaudeville.” The article is accompanied by a rare photograph of Blanche, posing as though for a portrait by John Singer Sargent (p. 5). Also, see
New York Times,
April 15, 1905, p. 1, and September 20, 1905, p. 2.

50. The information in this section comes from various documents, including a copy of Blanche’s divorce complaint against Wallace Scott, provided to me by Jane Pejsa.

51.
Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader,
October 19, 1930, p. 1.

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