Parkerfest 2004 was a smashing success! We finally have photo documentation of the festivities from the first Dorothy Parker Bathtub Gin Ball & Speakeasy Cruise. Thanks to all who sent in photos! Read the recap and see 100 pix. We can’t wait until 2005!
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Sarasota Show Based on Parker Works
Carolyn Michel brings Dorothy Parker to life in Jack Fournier’s one-woman show, Dorothy Parker: One Foot in Scarsdale. Performances of the show, a part of Florida Studio Theatre’s Summer Sideshows Series, begin June 30 in Sarasota’s Gompertz Theatre. According to Fournier, the idea for a show about Parker started with a trivia question: “Who had…
Marion Meade Upcoming Readings
Author Marion Meade has scheduled two readings/book signings to promote her new work Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin. The book, about Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Edna St. Vincent Millay during the Twenties, comes out May 18 from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. The first reading is Wednesday, May 19, 6 pm at The Corner…
Benchley Films Unspooling in Beantown
We hear the Robert Benchley Society is at it again with their first event of the new year. Society President David Trumbull writes: You are invited to an EVENING of Robert BENCHLEY’S Hollywood SHORT SUBJECTS. WHO: Mr. Chris Morgan of the “We’ve Come for the Davenport” (Boston) chapter of the Robert Benchley Society invites you…
Weekend of Parker Excess a Success at Parkerfest 03
NEW YORK — One of Dorothy Parker’s friends, New York World editor Herbert Bayard Swope, once said, “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” Swope knew a thing or two about hosting big parties, and he would…
Fourth Straight Year of Fun at Parkerfest
NEW YORK — If you’re judging the success of the fourth annual Parkerfest, maybe try this as the qualifier: None of the attendees from the Friday evening Speakeasy Night at Flute were able to drag themselves up to attend the 1 p.m. luncheon at the Algonquin Roundtable the next afternoon. There was a familiar pattern:…