Marion Meade’s new book Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties is like manna from heaven for aficionados of the Roaring Twenties. Seventeen years ago Meade wrote What Fresh Hell is This? It remains the definitive Dorothy Parker biography; now she expands on the 10 most exciting years of Parker’s life,…
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Excellent Evening
I’ve now attended four productions based on Dorothy Parker material. The way to judge a Parker play is on the acting. Because the source material is always excellent, and always the same, drawing on Parker short stories or verses. So it was with some bit of prejudice that I went over to the West 42nd…