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Today in the United States it is Martin Luther King Day, of course Dorothy Parker left her estate to him. This morning I created a little social media image, drawing on a line from a March 1921 review that appeared in Ainslee’s. Not long afterwards, I got an IM from someone, saying they “never heard…
The launch party for The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, by Kevin Fitzpatrick, was held at the Algonquin Hotel. There were many VIP guests, the descendants of the Vicious Circle: the great-nieces of Dorothy Parker, the grand-daughter of Murdock Pemberton, the nephew of Arthur Sullivan, the grandson of Deems Taylor, and the…
With the publication of The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press) on Jan. 6, I’m publishing more of my research files online. This interview with Dorothy Parker took place months before her marriage to Alan Campbell, and before she made her second attempt at Hollywood screenwriting in late 1934. This story…
With the publication of The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press) on Jan. 6, I’m publishing more of my research files online. This is a good one that ties Dorothy Parker to her hometown. In her last months of living in Manhattan before she went West to try Hollywood screenwriting for…
With my new book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press) coming out on Jan. 6, I have been putting some of the research material online. This brief newspaper report about Dorothy Parker arriving on a steamship in New York Harbor is from the New York World, Feb. 1, 1930. She…
While researching my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, I uncovered a lost 1952 radio show recorded inside the Algonquin Hotel, The Tex and Jinx Show. Among the guests are owner Ben Bodne, Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner, and screenwriter-author Anita Loos. It’s an amazing time capsule of the hotel, at…