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Note: this Tellier family chart is only as extensive as the point of semi-relevance, and many more connections are available on Geneanet, my primary source. Andre, after all, only has a circumstantial connection to Lucie and Rene le Tellier.

Norma Keating Mattlin

Nov 31, 1901—Aug 03, 1980

Norma Keating Mattlin was a poet, columnist, and children's book writer. Tellier selected her as his home contact in his WWII draft card, and it was very likely her influence which connected him to Harriet Bross Nemeth for an interview on WJLK.

She was born Norma Romola Connolly in the Bronx to John Edward Connolly Jr (1872–1956) and Charlotte "Lottie" Alice Connolly, née Norman. She had two sisters: Hazel Norman Marie Connolly (1894-1947) and Esther Odlum Suzanne Connolly (1905-1997, also known by the surnames Hewitt and Cullen). 

After her engagement at the age of 15 (G&D), she married Melville Bell Taylor Keating (1896-1956) on November 1, 1922. After their amenable divorce, she retained the surname as her writing pseudonym. On May 7, 1936, she married Nathan Matthew Mattlin and went by Norma Keating Mattlin afterwards (NYC Marriage Records).

She lived in Greenwich Village and the Washington Square area until 1941 (G&D), when she and Nathan moved to Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey. They lived together at Old Mill Road from around 1946-1958 and 297 Fairfield Road, Freehold Township from around 1966-1973. Several papers give conflicting reports about them living in Howell Township in 1961 and 1978. Norma's obituary says that she still lived on Fairfield.

Colonel Henry Shoemaker, state archivist of the State Library and Museum, Harrisburg, PA, lauded her poetry in The Altoona Tribune on June 10, 1937. He would later appoint her as Poet Laureate of The Folklore and Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Poetry Society of Pennsylvania (Raven Pamphlet).

On June 21, 1946, Keating signed copies of Giants and Dwarfs at the Book Nook in Asbury Park on Cookman Avenue. At that time, she lived on Old Mill Road in Spring Lake Heights (Spring Lake Gazette, 1946).

She was a member of the the Raven Anthology, a Bohemian poetry organization founded in Greenwich by Frances Lambert McCrudden in December 1932. He remained editor and publisher of their annual publication until Amedeo Count D'Aureli succeeded him with new quarterly issue for January 1952. Dr. Amadeo appointed Keating contributing editor and published "Dark Doves" in commemoration of her work and the magazine's reorganization (APP, Jan 18, 1952). They honored her on May 2, 1953 (APP, May 8, 1953).

Pennsylvania State Poetry Prize (1954)

She was also a member of United Poets Laureate International (APP, Dec 29, 1968), the Pennsylvania Poetry Society (Freehold Transcript, Mar 22, 1962), and the Poetry Society of America, NYC since 1930 where she served twice as a judge (Who's Who 1974 & APP, Oct 05, 1975).

In 1962 she was awarded an honorary diploma in literature from the University of Palermo, Italy (Freehold Transcript, Mar 22, 1962). The same article states that she was working on two unpublished books: Light in the Forest, a volume of poetry, and an unnamed historical novel.

1966 "Light of Fire'

President Marcos of the Philippines and Dr Yuzon, President of the United Poets Laureate presented her with a Yuzon Poetry Medal in August 1967 (APP, Aug 27, 1967). In 1975 the United Poets Laureate International named her Woman on the Year" (APP, Oct 05, 1975). Another unpublished book is announced here: a complete collection of her poetry.

  • Singing Davids (1927)

Anthology of fifteen poets.​

  • The Grub Street Book of Verse (1928)

 ed Henry Harrison. New York : Henry Harrison.

An anthology of poetry by the Grub Street Club.

  • "Circumference" (1932)

Scribner's Magazine (1932) Vol 92. p225-?​

Illustrated by Clara Skinner​. 21pp.

1937 Board of education, W.P.A. Project

  • American Women Poets (1937)

ed Margery Mansfield. New York : Henry Harrison. 403pp.

p 121, 377.​

  • Mr. Chu (1938)

Illustrated by Bernardo Bryson. 21pp.

A federal project during the Great Depression by the NYC Board of Education to be used in their New Reading Material Program (Hearings). Republished by New York : Macmillan (Apr 25, 1965). 34pp. Excerpt contained in Told Under the City Umbrella (1972), an anthology of books about children in cities.

  • The Accordion Man (1938)

Illustrated by Henry Glintenkamp​. 22pp.

  • The Old Woman of the Iron Mountains (1938)

Illustrated by Clara Skinner​. 31pp.

Greenwich Village Quill (1926), Vol 19, Issue 3. Pages 15-17.​

  • The Kingdom of the Eagles (1936)

23pp.​

Introduction by Maxwell Bodenheim. 111pp.​ Poems written over a period of 20 years. Contains the "Shinhopple Saga" of poems often noted in awards after their publication in The Altoona Tribune by Henry Shoemaker.

  • Songs of a Salamander (1949)

Contains poems written in 1943, was was originally intended to be released in 1947. 64pp. 

  • Dark Doves and Other Poems

New York : Raven Press

Contains Dark Dove new poems, Touch of Green unpublished poems, and parts of Giants and Dwarfs and Songs of a Salamander.

Bibliography

Nathan Matthew Mattlin

Feb 03, 1904—May 29, 1988

Nathan "Nat" Matthew Mattlin was a jazz pianist and song writer. Tellier wrote the lyrics to a number of Mattlin's songs, and it was Mattlin's wife, Norma, who Tellier selected her as his home contact on his WWII draft card.

He was born in Manhattan to Max Mattlin (1868–1932) and Pauline Sanderson (1870-?), a pair of Russian immigrants who arrived in the US in 1890. He was the youngest of six children: Fay Mattlin (1891-?), Morris Mattlin (1895-?), Blance Mattlin (1897-?), Rebecca Mattlin (1897-?), Samuel Mattlin (1900-?).

He sailed April 21-30, 1928 on the S. S. Lancastria from Le Havre to New York City. He immediately sailed again from April 30-May 2, 1928 to ???.

From August 4-30, 1930 he sailed on the S. S. Paris from Le Havre back to New York City. Passport number 293890.

September 3-9, 1931 on the S. S. Ile de France from Le Havre to New York City. Wrong bday: Jul 2, 1904.

Lived at 428 E 157th Street, Bronx, NY. (1928)

Lived at 1170 Shermen Avenue, Bronx, NY. (1930-1931)

Lived at Old Mill road, Spring Lake Heights (1948)

Lived in Greenwich as an orchestra leader and composer in 1933, where he set the Aesthetic Realist founder Eli Siegel's poem "What Can a Weak Man Do" to music (The Latin Quarterly 1933; Greenwich Village Weekly News).

On May 7, 1936, he married Norma Keating Mattlin (NYC Marriage Records).

By 1943 he began his long tour of bars around Shore Lakes, New Jersey including the Empire Bar and Grill alongside Dottie Williams (APP, Jun 18, 1943), Lou's Cottage Inn with Peggy Ryan and his trio: Bill Brady, Arnold Tversky, and Dave Light (APP, Jul 6, 1946), the Beau-Rivage (APP, May 2, 1948), Paul's Edgewaters (APP, Oct 15, 1948), the Ship Wheel Inn (APP, Dec 4, 1953), as well as the Circus Bar in Florida (Palm Beach Post, Dec 4 1948). Lou's Cottage Inn was his most frequent employer until he and Edna Rae Pentaleri, a kindergarten teacher, purchased the Trade Winds Bar and Grill at 707 Bangs Avenue in May 1959 (APP, May 10, 1959). They revamped it into the Blue Note jazz bar, which remained open for at least another fourteen years—barring a brief closure in April 1966 when they were prosecuted for operating it as a gay hangout and bar (APP, Oct 7, 1973, pg 92 & pg 94).

He participated in radio programs such as his 13-week series for WCAP (Radio Daily, 1947 vol. 41), the Community House Theatre where his symphony cantata, "The Congo" with lyrics by Vachel Lindsey was preformed alongside nine other original songs (Spring Lake Gazette, Jul 31, 1947; Aug 28, 1947), the Community Chest on WJLK (APP, Dec 19, 1949),

One-off gigs such as the Sterner Coal and Lumber Christmas Party (APP, Jan 13 1947), the Manasquan River group dinner (APP, Nov 7, 1947), and the 6th Annual WSCS Musical-Tea in Florida (Palm Beach Post, Mar 18, 1956).

w Norma Keating, m Nat Mattlin.

Unpublished. 9050.

Played for the Community House Theatre (Spring Lake Gazette, Aug 28, 1947).

By Nat Mattlin, pf. conductor sc.

Unpublished

12673

Recorded as a 1931 composition (Spring Lake Gazette, Jul 31, 1947)

 

w Abel Meeropol. m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 1340

 

w and m Nat Nattlin. Norma Keating Mattlin credited.

Unpublished. 17817.

Published Dec 2, 1946 as EP11539.

Matt Mattlin

R569031

/// I want a man : R569031 and R574157

 

w Norma Keating, m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 1511.

Played for the Community House Theatre (Spring Lake Gazette, Aug 28, 1947)

 

w Andre Tellier, m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 34221.

 

w Andre Tellier, m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 84288.

 

  • "There May Never be Spring Again, Unless We Love" (Oct 16,1940)

w Andre Tellier, m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 34905.

w Andre Tellier, m Nathan Matthew Mattlin.

Unpublished. 35400.

Unpublished Mar 30, 1948 as "Cherie Amour" with new English lyrics as EU123420.

Published Jun 26, 1951 as "Cherie Amour" by Shore Music Co. as EP55484.

 

w Andre Tellier, m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 6414.

 

w George Merranvere (pseud of Joseph Semenoff), m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 8119.

 

w Norma Connolly, m Nathan Mattlin.

Unpublished. 11633.

 

w and m Nathan Mattlin. Norma Keating Mattlin credited.

Unpublished. 42776.

 

w Bob Forshew, m Matt [i.e. N. M.] Mattlin.

Unpublished. 12515.

 

w Norma Keating, m Matt Mattlin. pf treble

Unpublished. 31162.

 

w S. A. DeWitt [Sam Aaron Dewitt?], m N. M. Mattlin.

EU28509.

 

w Norma K. Mattlin, m Matt Mattlin.

EU89402

Played for the Community House Theatre (Spring Lake Gazette, Aug 28, 1947)

 

w Norma K. Mattlin, m Matt Mattlin.

EU89401

Played for the Community House Theatre (Spring Lake Gazette, Aug 28, 1947)

w Francis X. Tishman, m Nathan Matthew Mattlin.

EU124051

Renewed Mar 25, 1976 as B627348.

 

w Harriet Nemeth, m N. Matthew Mattlin.

EU215233

 

w Harriet Nemeth, m Matt Mattlin.

EU240560

 

w Harriet Nemeth, m Matt Mattlin.

EU240561

 

  • "There is No Life Without Love" (Jun 18 1951)

w and m Matt Mattlin

EU241576

 

by Jimmy de Maio, Ted Black, and Matt Mattlin.

For voice and piano.

Godell Music inc, New York.

EP58008

Renewed Jan 3, 1979 as RE 9-337.

w Eli Siegel, m Matt Mattlin.

Godell Music inc, New York.

EP 58004

Renewed Jan 3, 1979 as RE14578

Originally produced in 1933 for radio distribution (Greenwich Village Weekly News). Played for the Community House Theatre (Spring Lake Gazette, Aug 28, 1947).

w Harriet Nemeth, m N. Matthew Mattlin =

EU285208

 

w Fay Tishman, m Matt Mattlin.

Shore Music Co. Spring Lake

EP76400

w Fay Tishman, m N. Matthew Mattlin.

EU340694

 

w and m N. Matthew Mattlin.

EU346347

 

w Fay Tishman, n N. Matthew Mattlin.

EU365826

 

  • "Dark Eyes, My Star Eyes; You're Tearing My Heart In Two" (Jul 1, 1955)

Aaron T. Smock, m N. Matthew Mattlin.

Shore Music Co. Spring Lake

EP91557

  • "Camp Meetin' Time Down on Possum Walk Road" (Dec 21, 1955)

w Aaron T. Snock, m N. Matthew Mattlin.

EU420493

 

w Eli Siegel, m Nathan Mattew Mattlin

Lyrics here at AestheticRealism.net.

EU402042

 

w William Rose Benet, m N. Matthew Mattlin.

Lyrics here at PoetryNook.com.

EU443060

 

 w & m N. Matthew Mattlin.

EU463545

 

w Patti, Pami & Julie Pentaleri, pseud. for James & Leni Pentaleri, m Matt Mattlin.

EP106504.

 

w Gary McGrath, m Matt Mattlin.

EP116141

 

w Gary HcGrath, m N. Matthew Mattlin.

 EU528870.

 

Kathryn Murray Waltz / Waltz of Ecstacy

Nathan Mattlin

Shore Music Co

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arthur_Murray_Party

 

w Hope Stoddard, pseud of Hope Elizabeth Johns, m Matt Mattlln.

EP127658

 

w Cathy Womick (Catherine Joan Womick), m Matt Mattlin.

Shore Music Co.

EP143309

 

w John Rose Gildea, m N. Matthew Mattlin.

EU870209

 

m Nathan Matthew Mattlin.

Shore Music Co. 5 p.

EU908203

 

m Matt Mattlin.

Shore Music Co. 2 p.

EU908574

 

w and m Norma Keating. English lyrics.

Shore Music Co

EP210887

 

  • "Think Back (We have loved all our lives)" (Dec 6, 1968)

w Bob Higi (Robert John Higi), m Matt Mattlin.

Shore Music Co. 3 p.

EP253253

w Jim Perkins (James Byron Perkins), m Bob Heyniger, Robert Heyniger, arranged Matt Mattlin.

4p.

PAu1103764

Compositions

Thomas Clinton Balmer

Feb 06, 1879—March 1967

Born Feb 6, 1879 in Liverpool to Thomas Clinton Balmer (1844-?) and Elizabeth McFarland (1844-?) as the third of six children: John Balmer (1868-1951), Rose Helen Balmer (May 23, 1971-1941), Edwin Warburton Balmer (1881-?), Herbert Septimus Balmer (1885-1967), and Evelyn Victoria Balmer (1886-1958).

After taking residence in the US on December 15th, 1905, he occasionally traveled to and from Liverpool on at least five trips. His application for US citizen ship was finally granted on April 25, 1918 following two petitions on January 23, 1913 and Jan 22 1918.

Lived at 161 Prospect St. Nutley NJ (1913)

Lived at 200 Montague St Brooklyn NY (1918)

Lived at Hotel Chelsea, 222 W. 23rd St, NYC (1924)

Lived at 43-45 149th St. Flushing NY (1942)

Married Lillian Woods Sanford (1882–Jan 6, 1948) on December 6, 1926

His wife, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. S. Sandford, died January 6th, 1948 in Flushing (The Post-Star, Jan 9, 1948)

Began a series of trips to Southampton after his wife's death to Bartley (1949), Tatsfield (1950), and Crowsport (1959).

Studied in England with Fred V. Burridge and Augustus John.

Member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts and the Salmagundi Club.

Instructor at the Westlake School of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Left in 1907 to New York (LA Times, Aug 11, 1907). Employed by the NYC Board of Education by 1942 (WWII Draft Card).

Influenced by and compared to William Morris (NYT, Jun 2, 1918) and Charles H. Shannon (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Mar 14, 1920)

The Spring exhibition of the National Academy of Design by Arthur Hoeber featured Balmer's allegorical "The Vain Woman" (International Studio, May 1908). The same month Balmer opened an art school in the Newark Metropolitan Building (International Studio, May 1908).

His work was also exhibited by Andre Tellier as Rene de Lombre on October 31st, 1915 at Tellier's studio, and at the the Plymouth Institute to be lauded by Hamilton Easter Field (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Mar 14, 1920).

The New Haven Paint and Clay Club featured Balmer as a member of the jury of award for their fifth art exhibition open November 22nd to December 10th 1922 (American Art News, Nov 4, 1922)

Amateur cellist (Chatham Press, Apr 19, 1924) and fan of Hans Kronold (The Journal, Jul 23, 1921)

It took seven/ten years for Balmer to complete the murals for Grace Episcopal Church.

On December 30th, 1925, an electrical fire burned down the church roof and destroyed almost everything. Two of the paintings were spared on a sheltering wall, but eight did not survive (Courier-Post, Dec 30, 1925).  The church did not reopen until June 6, 1926, by which time Balmer concluded that it would take three years to duplicate his paintings (Passaic Daily News, Jun 3, 1926). Still, he completed half of the paintings by September 29th, 1927 (Passaic Daily Herald).

London : Elkin Mathews. Contributed an untitled frontispiece, "A Crucifixion in Troy," "Silver and Blue: by the Shipman," "Tired Women," "Bosom of Grapes," "But Daphne Must Have Been Overseen," "Behold the King of the," "The Vine Dance of Death," and "The Unpainted Picture."

Contributed two works: the lithograph "Tresses of the Surf" and "The Stealing of Dionysus" (formerly "The Vine Dance of Death" in The Gate of Smaragdus).

  • "Greek Mythology for Children" (1907?)

The Delineator

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. Balmer contributed a painting for the frontispiece.

New York : Stugis & Walton Co. Contributed four illustrations subtitled, "Slowly his fingers tightened on hers [...]", "A slight dark figure came [...]", "Recklessly she plunged downward [...]", and "I told him you didn't know."

New York : Stugis & Walton Co. Contributed a frontispiece.

  • Leerie (1920) by Ruth Sawyer.

New York : Harper & Brothers. Contributed six illustrations including two mini drawings on the title page and foreword, the frontispiece "Leerie," and "Holding him high [...]," "The first look I had [...]," and "He will require more care [...]." 

New York : Harper & Brothers. Contributed twenty-eight chapter headings and illustrations.

  • Blue Pigeons (1929) by Emma Gelders Sterne

Duffield and Co. Contributed seven full-color illustrations, presumably including the dust cover and frontispiece.

  • The Singing Sword: A Poem (1929) by G. Laurence Groom 

New York : Harper & Brothers. Contributed the dust jacket and frontispiece seen at First Place Books.

  • The Glacier Mystery: A Boy's Story of the Tyrolese Alps (1931) by S. S. Smith (pseud of Thames Williamson)

New York : Harcourt Brace.

  • Away to Sea (1931) by Stephen W. Meader

New York : Harcourt Brace. Contributed the dust cover, endpapers, and nine full-page illustrations. Two illustrations seen at Bibliomania.

  • Vagabond April (1936) by Andre Tellier.

SERIALIZATIONS

  • "McCartney" (June 1908) by Hugh Molleson Foster

Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 4, No. 3. Contributed an illustration subtitled, "His eyes seemed magnetized by the sight." Mentioned in (June 1908)

Putnam's Monthly & the Critic, Volume 5. Contributed an illustration subtitled, "He is dead—My son is dead!"​

Illustration for a short story published in the Evening Star, a Washington DC newspaper.

  • "The Yellow Peril" (1913) by W. Kee Maxwell

in Pall Mall Magazine Vol. 52, No. 243. (July 1913) with four illustrations subtitled, "My name is Lottie Fairfax [...]", "If only I dared think [...]", "There was One-arm Loftis [...]", and "Montana reached towards his belt [...]". Also in American Magazine Vol 76 (July 1913) with illustrations by Martin Justice and republished in 1914 by Winthrop Press with unknown illustrations.

  • Boy's Life Sep 1920-Aug 1923

BUILDINGS​​

  • "The Lunette" at the Toxteth Library, Liverpool.

A 28ft by 8 ft mural created with W. Alison Martin. It first appeared at the Walker Art Gallery before being moved into the library in 1903. Age darkened the mural almost out of view until its restoration in 2009 (BBC, Dec 11, 2009)​ It can be seen here and also in the virtual tour in the reading room.

30 by 15 foot commissioned by the Corporation of Liverpool, England???

  • Midland Hotel, Manchester​

  • Music Store, Manchester

  • Stanley Congregational Church, Chatham NJ

  • Grace Episcopal Church, Nutley NJ (1911-1918)

A series of ten/twelve paintings. Originally meant to be developed alongside Charles Hawthorne and Fred Dana Marsh, who withdrew from the project (NYT, Jun 2, 1918). On December 30th, 1925, an electrical fire burned down much of the church and destroyed eight/ten of them (Courier-Post, Dec 30, 1925).

  • Congregational Church Memorial, Chatham (1919-1921)

A mural set into the thirteen by sixteen foot archway space behind the church's pulpit to honor WWI veterans (Chatham Press, Sep 10, 1921). Unveiled on October 21st, 1921 (Chatham Press, Oct 15, 1921).

Bibliography

Juliana Force, seating in an evening gown and looking somewhere off-camera. An Asian screen with painted bamboo shoots is behind her.

Juliana Force

(1876 – 1948)

The first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Interior designer. Tellier inscribed a copy of Vagabond April to her.

Also see: Rebels on Eighth Street (1990) and her Memorial Exhibition (1949).

Thank you Old Book Shop of Bordentown for the picture of the inscription.

The logo of Claude Kendall publishing.

Claude H. Kendall

(1890 – 1937)

Publisher of salacious novels of crime, sex, and queer themes—including Tellier's The Magnificent Sin. Victim of an unsolved murder and gay himself.

Also see: CrimeReads and The Passing Tramp by Curtis Evans

Carol Raven

A lyric translator for Edward B. Marks and occasional playwright. She collaborated with Tellier on Quisqualis, a play later named Stubblegrass.

Also see: "Tango of Roses," "Adios, Muchachos," and records of other work.

A clip of the cuticle trimmer patent that reads, "Inventors / Andre Tellier / Elie Paul Marquie / By Edw. S. Higgins / Attorney." All text is in type except Higgin's name, which is a handwritten signature.

Elie Paul Marquié

(1900 – 1978)

Owner of Marquie Gallery on 16 West 57th Street as well as a shop in Greenwich with his wife, Vivian. Etching artist & engraver. He filed the patent for a cuticle trimmer with Tellier.

Also see: picture of him by @printeryoysterbay on IG.

Edw S. Higgins

Possibly Edward Silas Higgins (1901 – 1984), who lived in Greenwich in the 30's. The attorney for all of Tellier's invention patents.

Also see: FamilySearch profile

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