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In recent years, as the Odyssey welcomed the work of Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, María Irene Fornés and Gertrude Stein, Sossi connected a new generation of theater-makers with their audacious and influential forebears.

The restaurant is named after Alice B. Toklas, partner of Gertrude Stein, and is part of Living Out, a luxury apartment complex for LGBTQIA+ adults.

The family and Perkins shared a mutual contact: reformer and suffragist Gertrude Ely, of Pennsylvania.

On March 12, 1940, Frances Perkins received a letter from her friend, Gertrude Ely, who lived in Pennsylvania.

A Sept. 24 letter from Jerkowitz to Shaughnessy reaffirms a reason behind Perkins’ attention to the Trapps’ case: their mutual friend Gertrude Ely.