{"id":118596,"date":"2017-11-29T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=118596"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:27:13","slug":"listen-hemingways-unrequited-high-school-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/listen-hemingways-unrequited-high-school-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Hemingway&#8217;s Unrequited High School Crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_118702\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fe-photo-1-001-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118702\" class=\"size-large wp-image-118702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fe-photo-1-001-1-1-1024x797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fe-photo-1-001-1-1-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fe-photo-1-001-1-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fe-photo-1-001-1-1-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fe-photo-1-001-1-1.jpg 1454w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A undated photo of Frances Coates, Ernest Hemingway\u2019s unrequited high school crush.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was as if a lightning bolt struck the teenage Ernest Hemingway, right there in the orchestra pit.\u00a0Although Frances Coates, seventeen, was only cast as \u201cThird Servant\u201d in the high school performance of\u00a0<em>Martha<\/em>, her brief opera solo made an impact on Hemingway, sixteen, who was playing cello and gazing up at her.<\/p>\n<p>The biographer Carlos Baker describes how a classmate of Hemingway\u2019s made a caricature of a boy with desperate eyes and labeled it: \u201cErney sees a girl named Frances.\u201d Baker also notes that Hemingway was too shy to ask Coates\u00a0to prom.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you can hear that voice, in recordings recently found by Coates\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/329945864&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although they dated socially, Hemingway never became Coates\u2019s boyfriend. He carried his crush with him over the years and across the globe. Three years after that high school opera, Hemingway was wounded in Italy while serving as a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross during World War I.\u00a0Even then, he wanted Coates\u2019s attention.\u00a0He wrote his sister:\u00a0\u201cCall up Frances Coates and tell her that your brother is at death\u2019s door. And that will she please, no excuses, write to him. Tell her that I love her or any damn thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coates did eventually write him, and Hemingway replied, \u201cThat was an awfully good letter and I shall keep it very carefully; because I always have suffered under a great and burning curiosity to know what your handwriting looked like. If that isn\u2019t a catty first paragraph! But really Frances it was an unspeakably nice letter \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two of Hemingway\u2019s never-before-seen letters surfaced in a trunk of papers and photographs owned by Coates\u2019s family. They are now up for auction\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/auctions\/ecatalogue\/2017\/fine-books-manuscripts-n09658\/lot.315.html\" target=\"_blank\">on\u00a0Sotheby\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/to-have-and-have-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">In a piece published by <em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Paris Review<\/em> in May<\/a>, I wrote about discovering those letters and how they illuminate Hemingway\u2019s early life and work. Hemingway and Coates corresponded at least until the 1930s, although most of their letters are lost. Variations on Coates\u2019s name would appear several times in Hemingway\u2019s work, notably his 1923 carnal short story \u201cUp in Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I spent more time with the archive and Coates\u2019s granddaughter, Betsy Fermano, we found these old acetate recordings in a trunk. They are shared here for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>These amateur acetate recordings\u2014two lullabies and two opera excerpts\u2014are more than fifty years old and scratched by time, but you still can hear Coates\u2019s clear, songbird soprano. Here, in an undated recording, Coates sings \u201cChristopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers,\u201d an adaptation of an A. A. Milne poem.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/329950216&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Coates would go on to study voice at Northwestern University, raise a family, and sing all over the country. A Michigan newspaper in 1941 described here as a \u201cwell-known soprano, diseuse, and interpreter of solo-opera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She performed in the communities where she lived, notably around Chicago and Washington, D.C. In her archive are two invitations to visit the White House, although it\u2019s unknown if she performed there.<\/p>\n<p>For her granddaughter, Fermano, the recordings flooded her with memories. It had been decades since she\u2019d heard her grandmother\u2019s voice\u2014and she\u2019d never seen her perform professionally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe spoke the way she sang. She had very careful diction,\u201d Fermano remembered. \u201cWhenever she was speaking to us or singing a Christmas carol, she was on stage. She always had such presence. Everything was quite dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to see how a teen boy could fall for her,\u201d Fermano added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/329947532&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hemingway\u2019s mother was also known for her vocal talents, and was a successful music teacher in Oak Park and a published composer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you grow up with music all around you, the way Ernest did, and your mother designs a two-story music studio in your home\u2014music has an indelible impact on you for life,\u201d Mary V. Dearborn, author of\u00a0<em>Ernest Hemingway: A Biography<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>told me. \u201cIt\u2019s no accident that his first wife was a very accomplished musician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hemingway fell hard for musically inclined women, whether that was his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, a talented pianist, or the actress\/singer Marlene Dietrich. Though he and Dietrich knew one another for thirty years, they were never single at the same time. Hemingway famously wrote her that they were \u201cvictims of unsynchronized passion.\u201d On safari in Africa, his camp would play her songs on a portable phonograph and, as he wrote in\u00a0<em>Under Kilimanjaro, <\/em>\u201cwe would all be happy hearing the beautiful, deep, off-key voice of my beautiful nonexistent wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t have a musical bone is in body, but his appreciation for music was inevitable,\u201d Dearborn said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118598\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hemingway-scrapbook-illustration.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118598\" class=\"wp-image-118598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hemingway-scrapbook-illustration.png\" width=\"525\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hemingway-scrapbook-illustration.png 525w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hemingway-scrapbook-illustration-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hemingway&#8217;s classmate Al Dungan drew this cartoon of the young Hemingway seeing Frances Coates perform in high school. The cartoon is pasted into a Hemingway family scrapbook located at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, where the bulk of Hemingway\u2019s literary estate resides.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert K. Elder is the coauthor of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiddenhemingway.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park<\/a> <em>and six other books.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was as if a lightning bolt struck the teenage Ernest Hemingway, right there in the orchestra pit.\u00a0Although Frances Coates, seventeen, was only cast as \u201cThird Servant\u201d in the high school performance of\u00a0Martha, her brief opera solo made an impact on Hemingway, sixteen, who was playing cello and gazing up at her. 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