Notes

Introduction: The Algonquin Hotel

xvi THEY SAY OF ME: Parker, “Neither Bloody nor Bowed,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, The Viking Press, 1973, p. 117.

xvii I AM CHEAP: Edmund Wilson, The Twenties, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975, p. 345.

xvii BUT NOW I KNOW: Parker, “Indian Summer,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 107.

xvii TIME DOTH FLIT: Author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

xvii SHE DISDAINED: Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 491.

xvii AT TWILIGHT: Author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

xviii THREE HIGHBALLS: Parker, “Just a Little One,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 242.

xviii I DON’T CARE: Parker, “Morning,” Life, July 7, 1927, p. 9.

xviii IT WAS INEVITABLE: Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 483.

xviii AT LUNCH: Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 510.

xix OH, HARD IS THE STRUGGLE: Parker, “Coda,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 240.

xix JUST A LITTLE JEWISH GIRL: Wyatt Cooper, “Whatever You Think Dorothy Parker Was Like, She Wasn’t,” Esquire, July 1968, p. 57.

One: The Events Leading Up to the Tragedy

3 WILD IN MY BREAST: Parker, “Temps Perdu,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 317.

3 MY GOD: Cooper, p. 57.

5 FOLK OF MUD: Parker, “The Dark Girl’s Rhyme,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 78.

8 WHAT STREET: Parker, McCall’s, January 1928, p. 4.

9 GO DOWN TO ELLIS ISLAND: Cooper, p. 57.

9 THE GREATEST SALESMAN: Crerand’s Cloak Journal, February 1899, p. 146.

10 SILLY STOCK: Parker, “The Dark Girl’s Rhyme,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 78.

11 LOVELY SPEECH: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

12 DIARRHEA WITH COLIC: State of New Jersey Report of Death, Eliza Rothschild, July 20, 1898.

12 PROMPTLY WENT AND DIED: Cooper, p. 57.

13 I DIDN’T CALL: Ibid.

14 WHENEVER HE’D HEAR: Ibid.

14 WOULD LAUGH: Parker, “Condolence,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 93.

14 DO NOT WELCOME ME: Parker, “The White Lady,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 90.

15 SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION: Cooper, p. 57.

15 THEY WEREN’T EXACTLY: Ibid.

15 EIGHTY YEARS LATER: Laura McLaughlin letter to author, February 25, 1980.

15 DID YOU LOVE: Cooper, p. 57.

16 THAT YOUR SISTER?: Ibid.

16 A FOUNTAIN PEN: Parker, Ainslee’s, October 1921, p. 156.

16 THERE’S LITTLE: Parker, “Coda,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 240.

17 SUCH ARTICLES OF JEWELRY: Eleanor Rothschild will.

Two: Palimpsest

19 SHE WAS A REAL BEAUTY: Cooper, p. 57.

20 ONE OF THOSE AWFUL CHILDREN: “Dorothy Parker,” in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Edited by Malcolm Cowley, The Viking Press, 1957, 1958, p. 76.

20 WONDERFUL TO SAY: Helen Rothschild letter to Henry Rothschild, July 25, 1905.

20 THIS MORNING RAGS: Henry Rothschild untitled verse, 1905.

21 DO NOT FAIL: Ibid.

22 FOR COMFORT: Writers at Work, p. 78.

22 LYING ON HIS FACE: William Thackeray, Vanity Fair, p. 347.

22 THEY SAY WHEN YOUR: Dorothy Rothschild letter to Henry Rothschild, August 6, 1906.

22 A SOCK IN THE EYE: Parker, “Inventory,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 96.

23 THE KID IS FINE: Helen Rothschild letter to Henry Rothschild, ca. July, 1905.

23 DEAR PAPA: Dorothy Rothschild letters to Henry Rothschild, Summer 1905.

24 SAY, MISS DOROTHY: Henry Rothschild untitled verse, Summer 1905.

25 ONE CAME IN HANDY: Dorothy Rothschild letter to Henry Rothschild, August 22, 1905.

25 IT’S TERRIBLY HOT: Ibid., June 23, 1906.

26 DEAR PAPA: Ibid., June 26, 1906.

27 THE TYPICAL DANA CIRL: Parker, “The Education of Gloria,” Ladies, Home Journal, October 1920, p. 37; “The Middle or Blue Period,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 595.

28 CARRIED THE DAISY CHAIN: “Theatre,” The New Yorker, February 28, 1931, p. 22.

28 BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES: Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1963.

28 THE BLACK SHEEP: “Nobody knew what happened to him,” Lel Droste Iveson said of her uncle, Harry Rothschild. In “The Wonderful Old Gentleman,” Parker drew the character of a scapegrace who had disappointed his father, despite everything he had done for the boy. The Old Gentleman “used to try and help Matt get along. He’d go down, like it was to Mr. Fuller, that time Matt was working at the bank, and he’d explain to him, ‘Now, Mr. Fuller,’ he’d say, ‘I don’t know whether you know it, but this son of mine has always been what you might call the black sheep of the family. He’s been kind of a drinker,’ he’d say, ‘and he’s got himself into trouble a couple of times, and if you’d just keep an eye on him, so’s to see he keeps straight, it’d be a favor to me.’ ” Matt’s wild behavior, Parker wrote, “had a good deal to do with hastening father’s death.” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 61.

29 MARTIN, SHE SAID: Surrogate Court, County of New York, “In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament of Martin Rothschild, Deceased,” May 17, 1912.

29 THREE NIGHTS LATER: Henry Rothschild’s death certificate lists the cause of death as “chronic endocarditis—chronic myocarditis—genera arteriosclerosis.”

30 AFTER MY FATHER DIED : Writers at Work, p. 72.

31 THE MOST HORRIBLE: Fred Lawrence Guiles, Hanging On in Paradise, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975, p. 87.

31 VERY NICE LIGHT VERSE: Parker, “Sophisticated Verse” speech, American Writers Congress, June 1939.

31 THERE IS NO WAY OF KNOWING: If F.P.A. published any of Dorothy’s early verse in The Conning Tower, there is no way to distinguish her work from that of other contributors.

32 MY HUSBAND SAYS: Dorothy Rothschild, “Any Porch,” Vanity Fair, September 1915, p. 32.

32 DOROTHY’S FIRST MEETING WITH FRANK CROWINSHIELD: Frank Crowninshield, “Crowninshield in the Cub’s Den,” Vogue, September 15, 1944, p. 197.

33 BUT HOW WILL WE EVER: Helen Lawrenson, Stranger at the Party, Random House, 1975, p. 57.

33 IF TO YOUR PAPA: Henry Rothschild untitled verse, ca. 1906.

34 I THOUGHT: Writers at Work, p. 72.

Three: Vanity Fair

35 FROM THESE FOUNDATIONS: Vogue Pattern Service, October 1, 1916, p. 101.

35 THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL: Caroline Seebohm, The Man Who Was Vogue, The Viking Press, 1982, p. 60.

36 A SMALL, DARK-HAIRED PIXIE: Edna Woolman Chase and lika Chase, Always in Vogue, Doubleday & Co., 1954, p. 135.

36 IN THE WOMEN’S WASHROOM: Crow. ninshield, p. 197.

36 WE USED TO SIT AROUND: Writers at Work, p. 72.

37 I HATE WOMEN: “Henriette Rousseau” (Dorothy Rothschild pseudonym), “Women: A Hate Song,” Vanity Fair, August 1916, p. 61.

37 FIRST AND SECOND: Dorothy Rothschild, “Why I Haven’t Married,” Vanity Fair, October 1916, p. 51.

39 SHE LIKED HIM : Parker, “Big Blonde,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 188.

41 OH LORD: Cooper, p. 113.

41 IF SHE HAD FELT: Parker, “The Dark Girl’s Rhyme,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 78.

42 ONE CAN IMAGINE : Cooper, p. 113.

42 CHASE NEVER FORGOT: Chase and Chase, p. 135.

43 WHEN HE HAD UNEARTHED: Edmund Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972, Edited by Elena Wilson, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1977, p. 405.

44 HORN-RIMMED GLASSES: Crowninshield, p. 197.

45 IN HER FIRST COLUMN: Dorothy Parker, “A Succession of Musical Comedies,” Vanity Fair, April 1918, p. 69.

48 DOROTHY LATER SAID: Cooper, p. 113.

48 AFTER ONLY A FEW MONTHS: Parker, “The Dramas That Gloom in the Spring,” Vanity Fair, June 1918, p. 37.

48 BY SUMMER: Parker, “Mortality in the Drama,” Vanity Fair, July 1918, p. 29.

48 IT MAY BE: Parker, “The Fall Deluge of War Plays,” Vanity Fair, October 1918, p. 56.

49 IT ISN’T ONLY: “Henriette Rousseau” (Dorothy Parker pseudonym), “The People Who Sit in Back of Me,” Vanity Fair, July 1918, p. 46.

49 SINCE SHE DISLIKED: Writers at Work, p. 73.

49 “DEAR,” HE WROTE: Edwin Parker card to Dorothy Parker, January 1919.

Four: Cub Lions

52 ALTHOUGH SHE WAS FAIRLY PRETTY: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 33.

53 TOLD OF HER SON’S DEATH: Nathaniel Benchley, Robert Benchley, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1955, p. 28.

54 ON THE BASIS OF HIS WRITING: Parker, New York Herald Tribune, October 13, 1963, p. 20; Wolcott Gibbs, “Robert Benchley: In Memoriam,” New York Times Book Review, December 16, 1945, p. 3.

54 A SORT OF MAID: Robert Sherwood letter to Nathaniel Benchley, January 4, 1955, Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.

55 SHE PUT FORTH THE THEORY: Parker, “Are You a Stopper?” Vanity Fair, September 1918, p. 23.

55 IN THOSE DAYS: Crowninshield, p. 200.

55 BACK AT THE OFFICE: J. Bryan III, “Funny Man” (Part 2), Saturday Evening Post, October 7, 1939, p. 32

55 MARK MY WORDS: J. Bryan III, “Funny Man” (Part 1), Saturday Evening Post, September 23, 1939, p. 10.

56 AT FIRST CROWNINSHIELD: Crowninshield, p. 199.

56 I CUT OUT A PICTURE: Writers at Work, p. 73.

56 I DARED SUGGEST: Crowninshield, p. 163.

56 A LOVELY MAN: Writers at Work, p. 73.

56 AMAZING WHELPS: Crowninshield, p. 162.

56 LATER ON: Ibid., p. 199.

57 WALK DOWN THE STREET: Writers at Work, p. 73.

58 THEY WOULD VIE: Robert E. Drennan, The Algonquin Wits, The Citadel Press, 1968, pp. 81, 129; Wolcott Gibbs, “Big Nemo,” Part 1, The New Yorker, March 18, 1939, p. 24.

59 THEREAFTER HE PLAYED: Woollcott, may have suffered from a testosterone deficiency.

59 ROSS HAD DEVELOPED: Drennan, p. 158.

59 WHERE’D YOU WORK: Jane Grant, Ross, the New Yorker and Me, Reynal & Co., 1968, p. 51.

60 F.P.A.’S BEAK NOSE: Drennan, p. 162.

60 NEVER MIND THE FLOSS: Bennett Cerf, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

60 THE CLINGINC OAK: Heywood Hale Broun, Whose Little Boy Are You? A Memoir of the Broun Family, St. Martin’s Press, 1983, p. 6.

61 PERSHING, NOTICING HIM: Richard O’Connor, Heywood Broun, G.P. Putnam’s, 1975, p. 58.

61 A FEW MONTHS EARLIER: “Helen Wells” (Dorothy Parker pseudonym), “They Won the War,” Vanity Fair, January 1919, p. 39.

61 ALL HIS STORIES BEGAN: James R. Gaines, Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, p. 28.

63 IT MEANT, SHE RECALLED: Cooper, p. 113.

64 THEY RESENTED: “Policy Memorandum Concerning the Forbidding of Discussion Among Employees,” to Francis L. Wurzburg from Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and Robert Sherwood, October 14, 1919, in Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library, Boston University.

65 TO HIM THEY WERE: Frank Case, Tales of a Wayward Inn, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1938, p. 61.

65 BENCHLEY’S HORROR OF LIBERTINES: Robert Sherwood letter to Nathaniel Benchley, January 4, 1955, Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library, Boston University.

66 ALL WE HAVE TO DO: Robert Benchley diary, Mugar Library, Boston University.

66 VANITY FAIR WAS A MAGAZINE: Writ. ers at Work, p. 74.

Five: The Algonquin Round Table

68 HE THEN SUGGESTED: Benchley, p. 143.

68 HE LABELED THE MAGAZINE’S ACTION: Robert Benchley letter to Frank Crowninshield, Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library, Boston University.

68 DOROTHY WAS DEEPLY MOVED: Writers at Work, p. 74.

69 BENCHLEY THOUGHT: John Mason Brown, The Worlds of Robert Sherwood, Harper & Row, 1965, p. 138.

69 R. BENCHLEY TELLS ME: Franklin P. Adams, The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys, vol. 1, Simon and Schuster, 1935, p. 241.

69 DOROTHY WAS PROUD: Writers at Work, p. 74.

69 BENCHLEY, AN ARDENT: Robert Benchley diary, Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library, Boston University.

70 DOROTHY AND BENCHLEY: Wilson, The Twenties, pp. 33—4.

70 FOR A SCENE: Lillian Gish and Ann Pinchot, Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me, Prentice-Hall, 1969, p. 224.

70 AN INCH SMALLER: Writers at Work, p. 74.

71 THERE WAS ALWAYS A LAUGH: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

71 MRS. PARKER, HE REMEMBERED: Author’s interview with Charles Baskerville.

72 HIGH SOCIETY WAS TO BE: Dorothy Parker, George S. Chappell, and Frank Crowninshield, drawings by Fish, High Society , G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920.

72 “AND DOROTHY,” HE SAID: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 48.

73 THE PREVIOUS FALL: Scott Meredith, George S. Kaufman and His Friends, Doubleday & Co., 1974, p. 159.

74 AT THAT TIME : Case, pp. 61—5.

74 HE SAID TO PEMBERTON: Margaret Case Harriman, The Vicious Circle: The Story of the Algonquin Round Table, Rinehart & Co., 1951, p. 20.

74 IN HER BOOK: Ibid., p. 21.

75 FERBER WAS SMALL: Julie Gold-smith Gilbert, Ferber, Doubleday & Co., 1978, p. 160.

75 SHE HAD KNOWN WOOLLCOTT: Gaines, p. 60.

76 YOU ALMOST LOOK: Harriman, p. 145.

76 THEY ALSO ENVIED HIM : Drennan, p. 16.

76 EDMUND WILSON SUSPECTED: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 49.

76 WELL, FRANK: Harriman, p. 145.

76 CONVERSATION WAS LIKE OXYGEN: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

77 ONE NIGHT, MARC CONNELLY: Harriman, p. 239.

77 WHEN RAOUL FLEISCHMANN CLAIMED: Drennan, p. 82.

77 WHEN A PLAYER: Ibid., p. 88.

77 HE WOULD BE SAFELY: Parker, “Big Blonde,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 190.

78 A CHAIR FOR EVERYBODY: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

79 SOME CHILDREN HERE: Dorothy Parker letter to Robert Benchley, September 1920, Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library, Boston University.

80 ANITA LOOS, NEWLY ARRIVED: Anita Loos, A Girl Like I, The Viking Press, 1966, p. 147.

80 IN BUT GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES : Anita Loos, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, Brentano’s Ltd., 1928, p. 36.

81 HAVE SOME POWDER: Babette Rosmond, Robert Benchley: His Life and Good Times, Doubleday & Co., 1970, p. 11.

82 YOU MAY LEAD: Drennan, p. 121.

82 DID YOU EVER: Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, Little, Brown, 1969, p. 187 (Bantam edition).

82 SUCH DENUNCIATIONS : Wilson, The Twenties, p. 47.

82 DOROTHY ACKNOWLEDGED: Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 14, 1939, pp. 3—4.

82 NOT IF IT WAS BUTTONED UP: James Gaines taped interview with Dr. Alvan Barach.

83 PARKIE WAS: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

83 I’M ALMOST CERTAIN: Author’s interview with Rebecca Bernstien.

84 IN FACT, FRANK ADAMS: Adams, pp. 305, 314, 316, 330, 440.

85 “WELL,” ADAMS ANSWERED: Harriman, p. 19.

85 THAT’S ALL RIGHT, Drennan, p. 47.

85 A WAG PASSING: Gaines, p. 30.

85 SHUT UP: Harriman, p. 169.

85 PEGGY WOOD NOTICED: James Gaines taped interview with Peggy Wood.

85 I’M ENGAGED: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

86 BUT DON’T THEY EVER SEE: Harriman, p. 85.

86 WE JUST HATED: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

87 HE WAS, SHE NOTICED: Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 14, 1939, pp. 3—1.

87 ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING : Donald Ogden Stewart, By a Stroke of Luck! Paddington Press Ltd., 1975, p. 100.

88 MONEY CANNOT FILL OUR NEEDS: Parker, “Song for the First of the Month,” Fales Library, New York University.

89 I AM ASHAMED: Dorothy Parker letter to Thomas Masson, ca. 1922, George H. Lorimer Papers, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

89 YOU SIT AROUND: Thomas Masson, Our American Humorists, Moffat, Yard and Co., 1922, p. 277.

90 SHE HAD EYES: Author’s interview with Margalo Gillmore.

90 PENNILESS, TALKING: Nancy Milford, Zelda, Harper & Row, 1970 (Avon edition), p. 93.

90 THIS LOOKS LIKE A ROAD COMPANY: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 48.

90 SHE WAS VERY BLONDE: Milford, p. 94.

92 IT WAS FINE: Parker, “Big Blonde,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 193.

92 A GREAT PARTY: Adams, p. 299.

Six: Painkillers

93 I HOPE THIS PLACE: Bryan, “Funny Man,” October 7, 1939, p. 32.

93 YALE CLUB: Benchley, p. 163.

94 IT’S STOPPED: Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks, Selected Letters of James Thurber, Little, Brown, 1981, p. 121.

95 MY WHOLE LIFE: Bryan, “Funny Man,” October 7, 1939, p. 32.

95 HARRIS WAS SILENT: Benchley, p. 159.

96 EDMUND WILSON BELIEVED: Wilson, The Twenties, pp. 46—7.

96 HE WHISPERED : Alexander Woollcott, “Our Mrs. Parker,” in The Portable Woollcott, The Viking Press, 1946, p. 180.

96 IF HE HAD BEEN A WOMAN: Sheilah Graham, The Garden of Allah, Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 109.

96 EACH TIME HE LEFT: Parker, “Big Blonde,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, pp. 192—3.

97 WE’D BUILD: Parker, “Day-dreams,” Life, June 29, 1922.

98 IN A SEIZURE: Dorothy Parker letter to George H. Lorimer, May 1922, George H. Lorimer Papers, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

99 SOME SUMMER EVENING: Parker, “Such a Pretty Little Picture,” The Smart Set, December 1922, p. 76.

100 A DOZEN YEARS LATER: Dorothy, Parker letter to Burton Rascoe, ca. July 1934, University of Pennsylvania Library.

100 NOTHING PLEASED HER: Writers at Work, p. 79.

101 MARC CONNELLY SAID: Allthor’s interview with Marc Connelly.

101 EVERYONE WHO KNEW HIM: New York Times, April 22, 1956.

101 HAVING CONVINCED HIMSELF: Ben Hecht, Charlie: The Improbable Life and Times of Charles MacArthur, Harper & Brothers, 1957, p. 26.

102 ADORING HIS WILD SENSE OF HUMOR: Alexander Woollcott, “The Young Monk of Siberia,” in The Portable Woollcott, p. 222.

102 SINCE PLAYING MATCHMAKER: Woollcott, “Our Mrs. Parker,” p. 187.

103 GOD DAMN NEW YORKER!: Hecht, p. 77.

103 MY GOOD MAN: Jhan Robbins, Front Page Marriage, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982, p. 30.

103 THE ATRACTION: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

103 IT SEEEMED CLEAR: Loos, A Girl Like I, p. 130.

103 DOROTHY, MEANWHILE: Parker, “A Well-Worn Story,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 77.

104 NEYSA MCMEIN PRESENTED: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

104 SHE WAS DISTRAUGHT: Charles MacArthur’s next publicized affair was with the English comedienne Beatrice Lillie. He and Carol Frink were divorced in 1926, after a long dispute and after Frink and MacArthur had come to a satisfactory financial arrangement. In 1928 he married actress Helen Hayes. In 1935, Frink sued Hayes for one hundred thousand dollars on the ground that the actress had alienated MacArthur’s affections while he was still married to her. At the three-day hearing in Chicago, Frink declared MacArthur was getting fat and bald. She wouldn’t take him now, she remarked, if he came in a box of Cracker Jack. Upon withdrawing her suit, she was ordered to pay court fees amounting to one hundred dollars.

104 LIPS THAT TASTE: Parker, “Threnody,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 74.

104 IT’S NOT THE TRAGEDIES: Writers at Work, p. 82.

104 FRANK CROWNINSHIELD SAID: Marc Connelly, Voices Offstage: A Book of Memoirs , Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1968, p. 92.

105 EVEN WOOLLCOTT: New York Times, November 7, 1922.

105 HER APARTMENT: Parker, Ainslee’s , March 1923.

106 WHISKEY: Parker, “Big Blonde,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 201.

107 A LITTLE BIT OF THEATER: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

107 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVED: Author’s interview with Margalo Gillmore.

107 WHAT’S THE MATTER: Jane Grant, Ross, the New Yorker and Me, Reynal and Co., 1968, pp. 120—1.

108 SHE WAS, NEYSA DECLARED: Neysa McMein, “The Woman Who Is a Design,” Arts and Decoration, October 1923, p. 14.

109 SOMETIMES SHE FELT: Parker, “Epitaph,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 79.

109 LIKE YOUR PIE: Parker, “Too Bad,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 179.

110 WHO WAS THERE: Parker, “The Dark Girl’s Rhyme,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 78.

III A FEW MILLION: Parker, Ainslee’s. June 1923.

111 I DON’T SAY: Parker, “What a Man’s Hat Means to Me,” advertising brochure for John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, 1923. Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library, Boston University.

111 “EVERYONE,” MRS. FORD: Mercedes de Acosta, Here Lies the Heart, Reynal & Co., 1960, p. 140.

112 AMID CRIES OF GENERAL HORROR: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 115.

112 ONCE, THE STORY GOES: Joan Givner, Katherine Anne Porter: A Life, Simon and Schuster, 1982, p. 176.

113 THE WORLD AND ITS MISTRESS: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925, p. 61.

113 HE SEEMED IRKED: Jonathon Yardley, Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner, Random House, 1977, p. 261.

114 MAGGIE SWOPE: E. J. Kahn, Jr., The World of Swope, Simon and Schuster, 1965, p. 292.

114 SCOTT FITZRERALD: Matthew J. Bruccoli, Margaret M. Duggan, and Susan Walker, eds. Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Random House, 1980, p. 135.

114 A SOCIAL SEWER : Andre Le Vot, F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, Doubleday & Co., p. 122.

115 ADDIE KAHN: Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn, Macmillan, 1963, p. 235.

116 I KNEW IT WOULD BE TERRIBLE: Parker, Life, July 21, 1927, p. 7.

116 NO MATTER WHERE I GO: Ibid.

116 JESUS CHRIST : Ring Larder, Jr., The Lardners: My Family Remembered, Harper & Row, 1976, p. 171.

117 I WAS CHEATED: Parker, “My Home Town,” McCall’s, January 1928, p. 4.

117 FIRPO’S HOUSE: Neysa McMein as told to Dorothy Parker, “When I Painted Luis Firpo,” New York World, September 9, 1923, p. 10.

117 IT WAS “A HORRIBLE DUMP”: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, August 27, 1923, Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library, Boston University.

118 COMPELLED TO OFFER: Woollcott,, “Our Mrs. Parker,” p. 191.

Seven: Laughter and Hope and a Sock in the Eye

119 THINK HOW FRIGHTENED: Cooper, p. 61.

119 DECENT PEOPLE: Parker, “Such A Pretty Little Picture,” Smart Set, December 1922, p. 77.

120 GOOD LORD: Ibid.

120 DOROTHY THOUGHT: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 47.

121 SHE HAD MAJESTY: Ibid.

121 HE DESCRIBED HER: Ibid., p. 345.

121 LADY, LADY: Parker, “Social Note,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 104.

122 THREE BE THE THINGS : Parker, “Inventory,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 96.

122 AFTER A PERFORMANCE: Stewart, p. 126.

123 THE DISTANCE: Case, p. 351.

123 I WAS SITTING: Author’s interview with Ruth Goodman Goetz.

124 HER CHARACTERS: Elmer Rice, Minority Report: An Autobiography, Simon and Schuster, 1963, p. 203.

124 SHE FELT “SO PROUD” : Dorothy Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, June 1959.

125 RICE FOUND HER: Rice, p. 204.

125 WITHOUT QUESTION: Author’s interview with a source who does not wish to be named.

126 THIS, NO SONG: Parker, “Ballade at Thirty-five,” Life, June 26, 1924; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 105.

126 IT WAS A SIMPLE TALE: Rice, p. 203.

127 DON’T YOU WORRY: Elmer L. Rice and Dorothy Parker, Close Harmony, (Copyright 1924 under title Soft Music.) Samuel French, 1929.

128 GERTRUDE LATER ADMITTED: Rosmond, p. 9.

128 BENCHLEY HIMSELF LATER: James Thurber, The Years with Ross, Signet Books, 1962, p. 173.

129 WHICH SHOWS now MUCH: Benchley, p. xv.

129 LIFE COMES A-HURRYINC: Parker, “For R.C.B.,” The New Yorker, January 7, 1928, p. 21.

130 IN RETROSPECT: Rosmond, p. 11—12.

130 I’M A LATE SLEEPER: Hecht, p. 92.

132 WE DRANK OUR HEADS OFF: Dorothy Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

132 SHE THOUGHT: Cooper, p. 110.

132 THE NEW YORK TIMES THOUGHT: New York Times, June 2, 1925, p. 9.

133 AN ELATED ROSS: Corey Ford, The Time of Laughter, Little, Brown, 1967, p. 115.

134 IN HER OPINION: New York Herald Tribune, October 13, 1963.

134 AT FIRST HE SAT: Parker, “Book Reviews,” Esquire, September 1959, p. 18.

134 WITH THIS “MONOLITH” : Ibid.

134 ALLOWING ROSS: Grant, p. 210.

135 POLLY ADLER: Polly Adler, A House Is Not a Home, Rinehart & Co., 1953, p. 98.

135 THEY ONCE CHASED: Woollcott,, “The Young Monk of Siberia,” p. 229.

136 WHENEVER YOU OPEN: Rice, p. 205.

137 WE WERE TRAPPED: Ibid.

137 DOROTHY, HE SAID: Orville Prescott, “A Lament for the Living,” Cue, July 10, 1937, p. 7.

138 THAT OLD FILLING: Rice, p. 207.

138 IT WAS “THE MOST EXCITING THING” : Writers at Work, p. 79.

138 DESPITE EXCELLENT REVIEWS: New York Tribune, December 1, 1924.

138 THE THIRD WEEK: Woollcott, “Our Mrs. Parker,” p. 186.

138 AS ELMER RICE LATER WROTE: Rice, p. 207.

138 IN YEARS TO COME: Richard Lamparski taped interview with Dorothy Parker, 1966.

138 HE FOUND THE PLAY: Robert Benchley, “In Bad Humour,” Life, December 18, 1924, p. 18.

139 OH I SHOULD LIKE: Parker, “Song of Perfect Propriety,” Life, January 22, 1925; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 103.

Eight: “Yessir, the Whaddyecall’em Blues”

140 THEIR NAMES WERE EVER: Parker, “Rosemary,” Life, August 14, 1924.

140 SHE FELL IN LOVE: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

141 SHE DEDICATED: Rosmond, pp. 11—12.

141 BECAUSE YOUR EYES: Parker, “Prophetic Soul,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 102.

142 ONE CHRISTMAS: James Gaines taped interview with Frank Sullivan, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

142 THEN SHE TURNED: James Gaines taped interview with Dr. Alvan Barach.

142 DONALD STEWART THOUGHT: John Keats, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker, Simon and Schuster, 1970, p. 61.

142 ALL YOUR LIFE: Parker, “Chant for Dark Hours,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 95.

143 BY THE TIME YOU SWEAR: Parker, “Unfortunate Coincidence,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 96.

144 COLLINS WAS STRICTLY: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

144 HE SEEMED EXACTLY: Parker, “Experience,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 117.

144 IT WAS ON THE HEAD: The Bookman , July 1925, p. 617.

145 JANE GRANT ADMITTED: Grant, p. 220.

145 F.P.A. EXPRESSED: Adams, p. 505.

145 JAMES THURBER CALLED IT: Thurber, p. 26.

145 DESPITE THE PSEUDONYM: Parker [“Last Night,” pseud.], “The Theatre,” The New Yorker, February 21, 1925, p. 13.

145 AND WHAT DO YOU DO: Parker, Life, September 12, 1926.

146 SHE WAS IGNORANT: Author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

146 DOTTIE NEEDED: Ibid.

148 I UNDERSTAND FERBER: Writers at Work, p. 77.

149 DURING THE WAR: Jane Anderson supported Hitler and Mussolini during World War II. In 1943, after broadcasting propaganda against the Allies from Germany and Italy, she was one of several Americans indicted for treason, but later the charge was dropped for insufficient evidence. Katherine Anne Porter based her La Condesa character in Ship of Fools on Anderson, who eventually married a Spanish nobleman.

151 THE FIRST TIME I DIED: Parker, “Epitaph,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 79.

152 AS LARDNER ADMITTED: Ring Lardner letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, August 8, 1925, Bruccoli et al., p. 176.

154 SABINE FARM, RECALLED: Broun, p. 41.

155 DOES ANYONE BUT MYSELF: Ibid., p. 47.

155 ROSS SAID : Thurber, pp. 27—8.

155 IF YOU CAN’T USE THESE: Frank Sullivan letter to Ann Honeycutt, June 13, 1967, in Frank Sullivan, Well, There’s No Harm in Laughing, edited by George Oppenheimer, Doubleday & Co., 1972, p. 215.

156 CHARLIE, AS BENCHLEY LATER TOLD HIS WIFE: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, July 31, 1925, Mugar Library, Boston University.

156 DON’T WORRY: Adams, p. 540.

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157 WHAT ARE YOU HAVING: Quoted in Keats, p. 85.

157 DRINK AND DANCE: Parker, “The Flaw in Paganism,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 298.

157 WHEN JOHNNY WEAVER REMARKED: James Gaines taped interview with Peggy Wood.

157 PEOPLE, SHE WROTE: Parker, “Dialogue at Three in the Morning,” The New Yorker, February 13, 1926, p. 13.

158 WHEN SHE WOULD BE: Author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

159 BARACH DECIDED: James Gaines taped interview with Dr. Alvan Barach.

159 SHE FELT MISERY: Parker, “Big Blonde,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 209.

159 DOROTHY CALLED HIM: Parker, “Toward the Dog Days,” McCall’s, May 1928, p. 8.

160 THEN THE TEARS: Parker, “Big Blonde,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 208.

160 INVESTIGATION REVEALED: Round Tablers treated by Dr. Barach included Heywood Broun, Frank Sullivan, and Herbert Swope. Aleck Woollcott also consulted him but did not enter treatment.

160 WHEN FRANK SULLIVAN STOPPED BY: Sullivan, p. 215.

161 THE HOSPITAL, SHE JOKED: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 346.

163 HIS STARK PROSE: Parker [Constant Reader, pseud.], “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, October 29, 1927, p. 92.

164 SHE WOULD NOT HAVE AGREED: Milford, p. 156.

164 IN LATER YEARS: Richard Lamparski taped interview with Dorothy Parker.

165 SHE THOUGHT HER POEMS: Brooklyn Eagle, November 18, 1928.

166 HE JOKED ABOUT: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 346.

166 BENCHLEY WROTE TO GERTRUDE: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, February 24, 1926, Mugar Library.

168 AT HENDAYE: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, July 25, 1931, p. 55.

169 DOROTHY MOCKINGLY DESCRIBED PARIS: Parker, “The Paris That Keeps Out of the Papers,” Vanity Fair, January 1927, p. 71.

170 MEN SELDOM MAKE PASSES: Parker, “News Item,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 109.

171 I GUESS: Rice, p. 217.

171 SHE WAS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, July 25, 1931, p. 55.

171 SO I WENT: Parker, “The Garter,” The New Yorker, September 8, 1927, p. 17.

172 WHY, THAT DOG: Parker, “Toward The Dog Days,” McCall’s, May 1928, p. 8.

173 SPANIARDS PINCHED: Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems, edited by Nicholas Gerogiannis, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979, p. 87.

173 DON STEWART: Stewart, p. 157.

174 THE TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING: Author’s interview with Mildred Gilman Wohlforth.

174 WELL, I DON’T KNOW: Adams, The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys, vol. 2, p. 675.

174 WHAT WOULD LINCOLN HAVE DONE: Wilson, The Twenties, p. 346.

174 SHE KEPT “EXPECTING” : Ibid., p. 347.

174 SHE SPENT THE DAY: Elinor Wylie letter to Anne Hoyt, November 22, 1926, The Berg Collection, The Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, The New York Public Library.

175 CITING THE ELEVEN-YEAR ANALYSIS: Guiles, p. 18.

175 WHY DONTCHA: Wilson, The Twenties , pp. 344-6.

176 IT TOOK ONLY A SHORT TIME: Parker, “Reading And Writing,” The New Yorker, December 31, 1927, p. 51.

176 IT WAS DEDICATED: Arthur F. Kinney, Dorothy Parker, Twayne Publishers, 1978, p. 113.

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177 SUDDENLY, DOROTHY: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, February 11, 1928, p. 78.

177 SHE WAS HORRIFIED: Adams, vol. 2, p. 706.

177 ENOUGH ROPE REVIEWS : The Nation , May 25, 1927; New York Herald Tribune, March 27, 1927; Poetry, April 1927.

178 BY FAR THE MOST THOUGHTFUL: Edmund Wilson, The New Republic, January 19, May 11, 1927.

178 DOROTHY HAD EMERGED: Wilson, ibid.; John Farrar, The Bookman, March 1928.

178 THERE IS POETRY: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, January 7, 1928, p. 77.

179 IF HAD A SHINY GUN: Parker, “Frustration,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 231.

181 IT’S AGAINST THE LAW: Parker’s arrest is based on reports in the New York World, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, New York Telegraph, and Boston Evening Transcript for August 11, 1927. Also Jeanette Marks, Thirteen Days, Albert Boni, 1929, p. 9.

183 DOROTHY PERSUADED A NEWSPAPER REPORTER: Upton Sinclair, Boston, vol. 2, Albert and Charles Boni, 1928, pp. 637, 648-50.

183 THEY WERE WATCHING: Ibid., p. 650.

184 THOSE PEOPLE AT THE ROUND TABLE: Richard Lamparski taped interview with Dorothy Parker.

185 THESE ADORING BUSINESSES: Gardner Jackson taped interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

185 AS JACKSON REMEMBERED IT: Ibid.

185 NO FEATURES: Sinclair, p. 743.

186 MY HEART AND SOUL: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, December 10, 1927, p. 122.

187 FINALLY, AS AN INDIGNANT LOVETT: Gaines, p. 235.

187 THERE WAS A WONDERFUL: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, January 14, 1928, p. 69.

187 GARRETT WAS THE SAME AGE: Parker, “Dusk Before Fireworks,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 135; “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, January 14, 1928, p. 69.

187 DOROTHY BROKE OFF: Parker, “Dusk Before Fireworks,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 135.

188 “LADY,” DOROTHY WAS DYING: Parker, “Recent Books,” The New Yorker, October 15, 1927, p. 105; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 452.

188 CRUDE IS THE NAME: Ibid., October 22, 1927, p. 98; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 455.

188 MARGOT ASQUITH’S LATEST BOOK: lbid.

188 CONFRONTED WITH A WORK: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, November 5, 1927, p. 90; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 461. Beginning with the October 29, 1927, issue, the name of the column was changed from “Recent Books” to “Reading and Writing.”

188 AND IT IS THAT WORD: Ibid., October 20, 1928, p. 98; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 517.

189 THE WHISTLES MEANT: Ibid., March 31, 1928, p. 97.

189 MOST OF THE TIME: Parker, “You Were Perfectly Fine,” The New Yorker, February 23, 1929, p. 17; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 151.

190 SHE ADORED “HIS BOYISHNESS” : Dorothy Parker letter to Robert Benchley, November 7, 1929.

190 LATER, TRYING TO REMEMBER: Ibid.

190 SHE HAD A FRIEND: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, April 7, 1928, p. 106; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 508.

190 SHE WOULD SIT : Parker, “A Telephone Call,” The Bookman, January 1928, p. 501, The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 119.

191 SUNK I AM: Parker, “Reading and Writing.” The New Yorker, January 7, 1928, p. 77.

191 IT WAS A SCREAMING MATCH: Author’s interview with Rebecca Bernstien.

J91 A DIFFERENT CAUSE: Hartford Cou. rant, January 8, 1933, p. 6.

192 THE OTHER WAS: Ibid.

192 GILMAN RECALLS: Author’s interview with Mildred Gilman Wohlforth.

192 THAT SPRING: Parker, “Just a Little One,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 241.

192 BONYAND LIVERLIGHT: In its fall 1928 catalogue, Boni and Liveright announced the October publication of The Sexes, described as a collection of satirical prose pieces that had appeared in Life, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. This book did not materialize.

192 REVIEWS WERE: William Rose Benét, “New Moon Madness,” Saturday Review , June 9, 1928, p. 943.

193 THE SUN’S GONE DIM: Parker, “Two-Volume Novel,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 238.

193 SHE IS QUITE GIVEN: Robert Benchley letter to Mildred Gilman, May 25, 1928.

194 ALLEN SAALBURG REMEMBERED: Author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

194 INSTEAD OF REPORTING: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, March 24, 1928, p. 93; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 504.

194 I FOUND HER: Woollcott, “Our Mrs. Parker,” p. 186.

195 NO RICH PEOPLE: Keats, p. 159. Dorothy repaid the loan shortly before John Gilbert’s death in 1936. He acknowledged the payment with a telegram, THANK YOU MISS FINLAND, a reference to the only country in Europe that repaid its World War I debt to the United States.

195 HELL, WHILE I’M UP: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, August 25, 1928, p. 60.

196 F.P.A.S’S REACTION: Adams, p. 866.

196 I DON’T SEE: Edmund Wilson, The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980, p. 361.

196 SHE NEVER LEARNED: Parker, “Reading And Writing,” The New Yorker, December 31, 1927, p. 51.

196 A MOTION PICTURE THEATER: Ibid., November 26, 1927, p. 104.

197 SHE ALSO ENJOYED: Parker, “Out of the Silence,” The New Yorker, September 1, 1928, p. 28.

197 SHE REMEMBERED THINKING: Parker, “To Richard—with Love,” The Screen Guild’s Magazine, May 1936, p. 8.

197 A TELEGRAM ARRIVED: John Gilbert telegram to Dorothy Parker, October 19, 1928.

197 IT ALWAYS TAKES: Brooklyn Eagle, November 18, 1928.

197 THE JOB GOT OFF: New York Telegraph , January 28, 1929.

197 NOW LET’S SEE: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, December 7, 1928, Mugar Library.

197 IT WAS A LOVELY OFFICE: Dorothy Parker speech, “Hollywood, the Land I Won’t Return To,” Seven Arts, No.3, 1955, p.130.

198 A NEWSPAPER REPORTED: New Haven Register, January 4, 1929.

198 SHE HOPED THAT: Dorothy Parker letter to Robert Benchley, November 7, 1929.

198 DOTTIE IS so LOW: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, ca. December 20, 1928, Mugar Library.

199 EVENTUALLY, THE PAGES CAME BACK: New York Telegraph, January 28, 1929.

199 AT HER WIT’S END: Parker speech, Seven Arts.

200 WHEN IT WAS ACCEPTED: “How Am I to Know?” was sung by Russ Colombo with a guitar accompaniment. This scene, using two sound tracks, proved to be one of the best in the film.

200 IN CONTRAST, GEORGIE OPP: Years later, in Hollywood, Dorothy stayed at the Chateau Marmont in a suite directly below Oppenheimer’s. She was entertaining friends when suddenly a tremendous crash came from upstairs. Pay no attention, she said, “It’s only George Oppenheimer dropping another name.”

200 NO, SHE SAID: Brooklyn Eagle, November 18, 1928.

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201 DOROTHY BLAMED THE LANGUAGE: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, September 1929.

201 FOR SIX WEEKS: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, November 28, 1929.

201 CONFINED TO HER HOTEL: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, September 1929.

201 WHEN SHE BEGAN TO FEEL BETTER: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, November 28, 1929.

202 AFTERWARD, LOOKING: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, September 1929.

202 HE SIMPLY CAN’T SPEAK: Ibld.

202 DOROTHY LEFT HER PASSPORT: Robert Benchley diary, Mugar Library, Boston University.

202 IHAVE A COLLECTION: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. July 1929, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

202 IT STOOD SURROUNDED: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, September 1929.

203 WHEN THE CHICKEN TURNED OUT TO BE: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. July 1929, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

203 NUMEROUS PAGES: Ibid.

203 THE LUCKY MAN: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, September 1929.

204 HE RESPONDED: Ibid.

204 SOMETIMES YVONNE ROUSSEL: Yvonne Luff-Roussel letter to author, August 3,1982.

204 I DON’TKNOW: Dorothy Parker letter to Robert Benchley, November 7, 1929.

205 SHE FOUND HERSELF: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, September 1929.

205 HIS REPLY: Ibid.

205 DOROTHY PREPARED: Ibid.

205 HE WOULD NOT PERMIT: Dorothy Parker letter to Robert Benchley, November 7,1929.

206 DOROTHY IMMEDIATELY CABLED BENCHLEY: Ibid.

206 SHE HAD ALWAYS CONSIDERED: Ibid.

207 AH, OLD BOOGLES BENCHLEY: Ibid.

207 CHRIST, THINK OF: Ibid.

207 LIQUOR, SHE FOUND: Ibid.

208 ON THANDISGIVING DAY: Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Droste, November 28, 1929.

208 IN THE EVENINGS: John Dos Passos, The Best of Times: An Informal Mem. oir, New American Library, 1966, p. 203.

208 SEE BY PARIS HERALD: Dorothy Parker cables to Robert Benchley, December 1929.

209 CURLED UP: New York World, February 1, 1930, p. 1.

209 WHEN SOMEBODY ASKED: New York Telegram, February 1, 1930.

209 WHEN SHE BEGAN TO TALK: Archibald MacLeish letter to Ernest Hemingway, February 10, 1930. In Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907-1982, edited by R. H. Winnick, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983, p.232,

210 WRITE NOVELS: Dorothy Parker letter to Robert Berichley, November 7, 1929.

210 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SENSIBLE: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

210 SUBMITTINC TO FORCE MAJEURE: According to Thomas Guinzburg, Harold Guinzburg’s son and successor at Viking Press, Dorothy’s novel remained the longest unfulfilled contract in the company’s history.

211 GOODBYE DARLING: George Oppenheimer cable to Dorothy Parker, May 24, 1930.

212 THE LAST TWO DAYS: Robert Benchley diary, Mugar Library.

212 GERALD SHOPPED FOR RECORDS: Unidentified newspaper clipping.

213 ALL THE REVIEWS: Dorothy Parker cable to George Oppenheimer, July 2, 1930.

213 OPPENHEIMER REPLIED: George Oppenheimer letter to Dorothy Parker, July 3, 1930.

213 ONE NIGHT AT HARRY’S: Bruccoli et al., p. 430.

214 IT PAINED STEWART: Stewart, p. 188.

214 LITTLE DROPS OF GRAIN ALCOHOL: Hemingway, p. 86.

214 AM NEARLY GONE: Dorothy Parker cable to George Oppenheimer, October 13, 1930.

214 FROM CANNES: Dorothy Parker cable to Robert Benchley, ca. October 24, 1930.

215 ARRIVING NEW YORK: Dorothy Parker cable to Robert Benchley, November 8,1930.

215 GETTING AWAY: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, January 24, 1931, p. 62; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 527.

215 SHE WANTED TO: Parker, “Theatre,” The New Yorker, March 7, 1931, p.33.

215 IN JANUARY: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, January 24, 1931, p. 62.

215 HER FIRST REVIEW: Parker, “Theatre,” The New Yorker, February 21, 1931, p. 25.

216 ESCORTING HER HOME: Author’s interview with Gertrude Macy.

216 A FRIEND LATER DESCRIBED HIM: J. Bryan III, Merry Gentlemen (and One Lady), Atheneum, 1985, p. 115; author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

217 I AM SORRY: John 0’Hara letter to Tom O‘Hara, May 20, 1932, in John O’-Hara, Selected Letters of John 0’Hara, edited by Matthew Bruccoli, Random House, 1978, p. 63.

218 GIVEN HER LOVE FOR ANIMALS: Keats, 139.

218 OH, SOMEBODY SIGHED: Vernon Duke, Passport to Paris, Little, Brown and Co., 1955, p. 268.

219 I HAVE NO SQUASH COURTS: Prescott, p. 7.

219 DEATH AND TAXES: Parker, “Summary,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 313.

219 SHE DESCRIBED HIM: In Charles Brackett’s 1934 novel Entirely Surrounded, the main character is a portrait of Dorothy at the time of her affair with McClain. Daisy Lester, a celebrated wit and nightclub singer, describes her lover as “a god-damned male whore trading on that body of his.”

219 WHEN SHE ONCE LEARNED: Bryan, p. 117.

219 DEPRESSED, DOROTHY: James Thurber, The Seal in the Bedroom & Other Predicaments, Harper Brothers, 1932, introduction by Dorothy Parker, p. x.

219 ANY ROYALTIES: Handwritten note, Robert Benchley Collection, Mugar Library.

220 SEND ME ASAW: Prescott, p. 34.

221 CAN’T FACE DECIDING: Parker, “From the Diary of a New York Lady,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 332.

221 IN THE MONTHS: New York Herald Tribune, December 12, 1932.

222 SHE ASKED SOME: New York World-Telegram, September 15, 1932.

222 LIKE HERSELF: Thurber, p. viii.

223 OH, YOU CAUGHT ME: Bennett Cerf, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf, Random House, 1977, p. 34.

223 I HAVE NO DOUBT: Woollcott, “Our Mrs. Parker,” p. 190.

224 SHE CAREFULLY EXAMINED: Reprint, Holyoke Transcript, November 11, 1932, Tom Mooney Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California—Berkeley.

224 SHE IMMEDIATELY COMPOSED: Ibid.

224 HOW NOW, MR. PEPYS: Adams, vol. 2, p. 1121.

225 SHE AND FANNY BRICE: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

225 SID PERELMAN LATER WROTE: S. J. Perelman, The Last Laugh, Simon and Schuster, 1981, pp. 171-3.

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227 SINCE SHE AND JOHN: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, March 18, 1933, p. 64; The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 548.

227 COME ON UP: Keats, p. 160.

227 LONG I FOUGHT: Parker, “Prisoner,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 316.

228 SHE’D PICK UP: Author’s interview with Clara Lester.

229 J. CLIFFORD MILLER, JR.: J. Clifford Miller letter to author, March 22, 1983.

229 ALL AT ONCE: Author’s interview with Roy Eichel.

230 HE SAID YEARS LATER: William Engle, “Dorothy Parker’s Rebounding Quips,” The American Weekly, June 15, 1947, p. 14.

230 AND WHERE DOES SHE FIND THEM: Author’s interview with Dorothy Rodgers.

230 ALAN WAS: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

230 SUNK DEEP: O’Hara, p. 88.

230 COME ALONG AT ONCE: Bryan, pp. 101-102.

231 HOW CAN THEY TELL: Ibid., p. 106.

231 SHE REFUSED TO TALK: New York Herald Tribune, October 27, 1933.

232 WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ELECTION: New York Evening Post, October 27, 1933.

232 AN EXCITED EDMUND WILSON: Edmund Wilson letter to Louise Bogan, December 12, 1933, in Wilson, Letters in Literature and Politics, p. 234.

232 I DON’T KNOW WHY: Emily Hahn letter to author, February 18, 1983.

233 HER FAMILY, SHE GRUMBLED: Dorothy Parker letter to Morris Ernst, ca. February /March 1936, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas.

233 WHEN HOWARD DIETZ: Howard Dietz, Dancing in the Dark, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1974, p. 77.

233 THAT SAME MONTH: Sullivan, p. 204.

234 I PICKED HIM OUT: Unidentified newspaper clipping, Dorothy Parker Scrapbook (courtesy of Susan Cotton).

234 I HAD THE PLEASURE: John O’Hara letter to Ernest Hemingway, May 1935, O’-Hara, p. 107.

234 o’hara IRRITATED HER: John O’-Hara letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, October 14-15, 1933, in Matthew J. Bruccoli, The O’Hara Concern, Random House, 1975, p. 95.

234 WRITING IN WHAT APPEARS: Dorothy Parker letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, undated, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Princeton University Library.

235 HE’S AWFUL: John O’Hara letter to William Maxwell, May 16, .1963, in O’Hara, p. 429.

236 IN ORDER TO MAKE: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

236 OTHER FRIENDS: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

236 WHEN DOTTIE FELL IN LOVE: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

236 MY DEAR, SHE SAID: Cooper, p. 110.

237 AMONG THOSE: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

237 THIS IS TO REPORT: Dorothy Parker telegram to Sara and Gerald Murphy, June 8, 1934.

238 WE ARE IN JULESBURG: New York Evening Journal, June 16, 1934.

238 so WE GOT OUT: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. June 1934, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

238 EYEBROWS: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

238 COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN: Dorothy Parker telegram to Helen Grimwood, June 19, 1934.

239 OH, THIS IS THE FIRST: Engle, p. 14.

239 OTHERWISE SHE WAS: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, June 1934, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

239 DEAR SCOTT: Dorothy Parker telegram to F. Scott Fitzgerald, July 6, 1934, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Princeton University Library.

240 BLAMING THE ALTITUDE: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, June 1934, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

240 PROBABLY THIS WAS A WISE DECISION : Ibid.

240 THAT BIRD ONLY SINGS: Samuel Hopkins Adams, A. Woollcott: His Life and His World, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945, p. 296.

240 GENTLEMEN: Ibid., p. 305.

241 HEARING ROSALIE STEWART’S IDEA: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, August 1934, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

242 WHEN DOROTHY CONTINUED: Ibid.

242 ONCE I WAS COMING: Writers at Work, p. 81.

242 WHEN THEY GATHERED: Dorothy Herrmann, S. J. Perelman: A Life, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1986, p. 71.

243 THE DEVASTATING DOROTHY PARKER: Newspaper clippings, unidentified sources, Dorothy Parker Scrapbook.

243 DOUBLY FAMOUS: Caption accompanying Paramount publicity photograph.

244 SHE TOLD THE MURPHYS: Dorothy Parker letter to Sara and Gerald Murphy, ca. January 1935.

244 IT IS NOW CALLED: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. January 1935, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

244 BUT WOULD THEY: Ibid.

244 DOROTHY AND ALAN: Ibid.

244 DOROTHY EXPLAINED: Dorothy Parker letter to Harold Guinzburg, August 21, 1934.

245 SHE DISCOVERED: Writers at Work, p. 81.

245 ASIDE FROM THE WORK: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. January 1935, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

245 MISS PARKER, MISS PARKER: Author’s interview with Joseph Schrank.

246 IN MAY MY HEART: Parker, “Autumn Valentine,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 318.

246 UPON MY HONOR: Verse attributed to Dorothy Parker, in Norman Zierold, The Moguls, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1969, p. 283.

247 AFTER CHRISTMAS: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. January 1935, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

247 WHILE REVIEWING THE GLASS KEY: Parker, “Reading and Writing,” The New Yorker, April 25, 1931, p. 91.

248 A HARD MAN: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 186.

248 HER HABIT: Ibid., p. 187.

248 DOTTIE ADMIRED LILLIAN: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

249 TO INDICATE THE EMOTIONS: Author’s interview with Heywood Hale Broun.

249 DESPITE HER OPPOSING: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. January 1935, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

249 WHEN SHE HEARD HIS VOICE: Ibid.

250 OH, GOODY: Wilson, The Thirties, p. 360.

250 GARBAGE THOUGH THEY TURN OUT: Writers at Work, p. 81.

251 DEAR HAROLD: Dorothy Parker letter to Harold Guinzburg, ca. 1935.

251 TWO YEARS EARLIER: New York Evening Post, October 27, 1933.

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252 THEY HAVE, HE RECOUNTED: John O’Hara letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, April 1936, O’Hara, pp. 116-17.

253 DOTTIE AND ALAN: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, April 27, 1936, Mugar Library, Boston University.

253 HER AMBIVALENCE: Cooper, p. 57.

253 DON STEWART RECALLED: Stewart, p. 226.

254 DOROTHY BEGAN MOVING AWAY: Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 14, 1939, pp. 3-4.

254 SHE FLATTERED DOROTHY: Stewart, p. 234.

255 I CANNOT TELL YOU: Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 14, 1939, pp. 3-4.

255 WITH MORE GENEROSITY: Stewart, p. 228.

256 ALAN WAS: Author’s interview with Budd Schulberg.

256 AS ROBERT BENCHLEY WOULD: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, August 13, 1938, Mugar Library, Boston University.

256 DOROTHY MEANWHILE: Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 14, 1939, pp. 3-4.

256 WHEN THE TRAIN: Norman Corwin, “Corwin on Media,” Westways, November 1980, p. 64.

256 HE PAID TWENTY DOLLARS: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, April 27, 1936, Mugar Library, Boston University.

256 HE REACTED: Robert Benchley letter to Sara and Gerald Murphy, July 1, 1937.

257 I saw SOME: Dorothy Parker speech, February 6, 1941, to Disney Unit of Screen Cartoon Guild.

257 EXPECTING STUDIOS: Nancy Lynn Schwartz, The Hollywood Writers’ War, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982, p. 13.

257 AT A MEETING: Ibid., 69.

258 I DO NOT FEEL: Parker, “To Richard — with Love,” The Screen Guilds’ Magazine , May 1936, p. 8.

258 HER ANGER: Parker, Screen Cartoon Guild speech.

258 THAT SONOFABITCH: Schwartz, p. 124.

258 NOW, LOOK, BABY: Parker, Screen Cartoon Guild speech.

259 WE HAVEN’T ANY ROOTS: Perelman, p. 173.

260 THERE WAS NO CELLAR: Dorothy Parker, “Destructive Decoration,” in 20th Century Decorating, Architecture, and Gardens: 80 Years of Ideas and Pleasure from House and Garden, Mary Jane Pool, ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980, pp. 178-9.

260 ALAN, LITHE: Author’s interview with Lester Trauch.

260 IT WAS AUGUST WEATHER: Parker, “Destructive Decoration.”

261 THAT’S THEIR PROBLEM: Perelman, p. 176.

261 IT WAS THE DEPRESSION: Author’s interview with Lester Trauch.

262 SOME YEARS LATER: David O. Selznick, Memo from David 0. Selznick, Rudy Behlmer, ed., The Viking Press, 1972, p. 96.

262 THEY WOULD SPRING: Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

262 SHE SAID HAPPILY: Newspaper clipping, April 24, 1937, unidentified source.

263 SHE ALSO LIKED TO PRETEND: Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

263 AT THE OSCAR PRESENTATIONS: Ronald Bowers, The Selznick Players, A.S. Barnes and Co., 1976, p. 27.

263 OVER THE YEARS: Author’s interview with Frances Goodrich.

263 HOW DID YOU KNOW: New York American, December 15, 1936.

263 GOODRICH FOUND: Author’s interview with Frances Goodrich.

264 SHE WAS GREAT: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

264 ANOTHER SKEPTIC: Author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

264 HE WOULD BE WITH us: Thomas Guinzburg taped interview with Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

264 DICK MYERS WROTE: Richard E. Myers letter to Alice Lee Myers, January 14, 1937.

265 THEY DECIDED IT WOULD BE: Parker, “Destructive Decoration.”

266 NEAR THE HOUSE: Ibid.

266 WRITER JOSEPH SCHRANK OBSERVED: Author’s interview with Joseph Schrank.

266 FIFTY-SECOND STREET: Parker, “Destructive Decoration.”

266 SID PERELMAN GAZED: Author’s interview with Allen Saalburg.

267 HE WAS, JOSEPH SCHRANK RECALLED: Author’s interview with Joseph Schrank.

267 I’M AWFULLY LAZY: Dorothy Parker letter to Fred B. Millett, May 27, 1937, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

267 RUTH GOETZ NOTICED: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

267 WHEN THE CAMPBELLS: Ibid.

268 IT WAS THE WEIRD HOURS: Author’s interview with Roy Eichel.

268 AS MARC CONNELLY REMEMBERED: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

268 THROUGHOUT THE VISIT: Dorothy Parker letter to Morris Ernst, ca. February/ March 1936, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas.

268 THE OTHER MRS. CAMPBELL: Author’s interview with Marc Connelly.

268 SHE FIRED OURFARMER: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, September 2, 1942, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

268 HORTE FELT: Ibid.

269 IT’S AS HOT AS HELL: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 188.

269 FROM NOW ON: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

269 USUALLY THE GROUP: Ibid.

270 IN APRIL 1938: Daily Worker, April 28, 1938, p. 4. The list of signatories supporting the Soviet trial verdict included Nelson Algren, Langston Hughes, Harold Clurman, Lillian Hellman, Malcolm Cowley, and Irwin Shaw.

270 IT WAS QUITE BRIEF: Author’s interview with Ring Lardner, Jr.

270 EVERYONE AT THAT TIME: Author’s interview with Budd Schulberg.

271 THE FOLLOWING SIX PIECES OF EVIDENCE : Federal Bureau of Investigation, files.

272 OF THIS NUMBER: The Hollywood Nineteen included writers Bertolt Brecht, Richard Collins, Gordon Kahn, Howard Koch, and Waldo Salt; actor Larry Parks; actor-director Irving Pichel; directors Lewis Milestone and Robert Rossen; along with the Hollywood Ten: writers Alvah Bessie, Lester Cole, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, and Dalton Trumbo, writer-producer Adrian Scott, and directors Herbert Biberman and Edward Dmytryk.

272 DOROTHY LOOKED PUZZLED: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, pp. 190-1.

272 IN 1937 SHE WROTE: Dorothy Parker, “Incredible, Fantastic ... and True,” New Masses, November 23, 1937, pp. 15-16.

274 SHE SUSPECTED : Lillian Hellman, Scoundrel Time, Little, Brown, 1976 (Bantam edition), p. 41.

274 A MEMBER AT LARGE: U.S. Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion Picture Industry, Hearings, Eighty second Congress, Part 4, September 19, 1951. Lillian Hellman was the only one of the five writers named by Martin Berkeley to respond to his charges. She denied knowing him and being present at the meeting.

275 I HAVEN’T THE FAINTEST: Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

275 HE DESCRIBED THEIR NEW QUARTERS : Alan Campbell letter to Harold Guinzburg, ca. July 6, 1937.

276 GARSON KANIN REMEMBERED: Garson Kanin, Hollywood, The Viking Press, 1974, p. 284.

277 OH COME, MY LOVE: Dorothy Parker, “The Passionate Screen Writer To His Love,” Marc Connelly estate.

278 DOROTHY THOUGHT: Parker speech, Screen Cartoon Guild.

278 BUT SHE ALSO BELIEVED: Parker speech, Seven Arts, p. 135.

Fourteen: Bad Fights

279 NATHANAEL WEST FINISHED: S. J. Perelman, “And Did You Once See Irving Plain?” in The Most of S. J. Perelman, Simon and Schuster, 1958, p. 599.

280 HAVING ALWAYS FOUND HER: F. Scott Fitzgerald to Gerald Murphy, September 14, 1940, in The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald , Andrew Turnbull, ed., Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963, pp. 429-30.

280 IT’S A LONG STORY: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 57.

281 BENCHLEY TOLD HIS WIFE : Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, August 14, 1937, Mugar Library, Boston University.

282 DOROTHY WOULD RATHER: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, December 1940, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

282 IT TURNED OUT : Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 87.

282 THE RICH AND FAMOUS: Hellman, Pentimento. A Book of Portraits, Little, Brown and Co., 1973 (New American Library edition), pp. 102-3.

283 THE LOYALIST CAUSE: Leland Stowe letter to author, September 15, 1982.

284 I COULDN’T IMAGINE: Dorothy, Parker, “Spain, For Heaven’s Sake!” (originally titled “Who Might Be Interested”), Mother Jones, February/March 1986, p.42; Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 14, 1939, pp. 3-4.

284 DOTTIE PARKER IS HERE: Martha Gellhorn, “Guerre de Plume,” The Paris Review, Spring 1981, pp. 280-301.

284 ALL DAY LONG: Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 4, 1939.

284 SHE PREFERRED NIGHT RAIDS: Parker, “Incredible, Fantastic ... and True,” New Masses, November 23, 1937.

285 THEY DON’TCRY: Parker, “Spain, For Heaven’s Sake.” Mother Jones, February /March 1986.

285 DESCRIBING HER TRAVELS: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 88.

285 DESPITE HER COJONES: Lillian Hellman’s first writings about the Spanish Civil War appeared two years after Dorothy’s death. In 1981, Martha Gellhorn published a long article in The Paris Review, accusing Hellman of substituting fiction for fact, and combed newspaper clippings and her own notes from the period in an attempt to show that Hellman’s stories were apocryphal. Hellman, Gellhorn charged, had written a great part for herself throughout. “She is the shining heroine who overcomes hardship, hunger, fear, danger—down stage center—in a tormented country.”

In 1980, Hellman had filed a defamation suit against Mary McCarthy for calling her a dishonest writer, but she failed to sue Gellhorn, whom she said had written the article out of pique because Hellman had been “not pleasant” to her in An Unfinished Woman.

285 MISS H. BROUGHT NOTHING: Gellhorn, p. 296.

285 SHE GAVE NEWSPAPER INTERVIEWS: New York Post, October 22, 1937.

285 YOU KNEW DARN WELL: Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

285 AT PARTIES : Mother Jones.

285 IN PIPERSVILLE: Author’s interview with Lei Droste Iveson.

285 SHE IMAGINED: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, September 2, 1942, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

286 DEAR MISS KENNEDY: Dorothy Parker letter to Sheelagh Kennedy, November 1937, Spanish Refugee Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

287 SHE MANAGED TO GET A LAUGH: New York Herald Tribune, December 4, 1937.

287 PERELMAN WAS CURIOUS: Perelman, The Last Laugh, pp. 186—7.

289 IN A LETTER : Alan Campbell letter to Toni Strassman, April 1938.

289 AS ALWAYS: Dorothy Parker letter to Sheelagh Kennedy, March 21, 1938, Spanish Refugee Collection.

289 KOBER LATER CLAIMED: Richard Moody, Lillian Hellman, Playwright, Pegasus Division of Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1972, p. 113.

289 HER WORK HABITS: Author’s interview with Budd Schulberg.

290 AND THEN WHAT: Author’s interview with Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.

290 AT A PARTY: Writers Guild of America West News, March 1982.

290 YOU COULD HAVE: Dorothy Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

290 NOW LISTEN : Ibid.

290 TO AN INTERVIEWER : Ibid.

291 ONE DAY, SHE LOOKED OUT: Siegfried M. Herzig letter to author, January 31, 1983.

291 A REPORTER ASKED HER: New York Times, “Miss Parker Never Poses,” January 8, 1939.

291 SHE INSISTED : Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

292 IF YOU HAD SEEN: Time, January 16, 1939, p. 55.

292 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

292 THOUGH THE WORLD: William Rose Benét letter to Dorothy Parker, May 15, 1939, Spanish Refugee Collection.

292 MEANWHILE, DOROTHY WENT ON: Dorothy Parker letter to Evelyn Ahrend, May 19, 1939, Spanish Refugee Collection.

293 NOT UNTIL 1942: Dorothy Parker note to Marshall Best, The Viking Press, received August 21, 1942.

293 DOT, CHARLES MACARTHUR REMARKED: Janet Flanner letter to Alexander Woollcott, ca. 1939-1940, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

294 PRESENTS, SHE GROWLED: Cooper, p. 112.

294 WHY IS IT : Parker, “One Perfect Rose,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 104.

295 THE WHOLE WORLD: Alan Campbell letter to Ruth and Augustus Goetz, undated.

295 DOROTHY PERKED UP: Dorothy Parker telegram to Helen Grimwood, June 16, 1939.

295 JOHN DAVIES THOUGHT: John Davies letter to author, December 12, 1979.

296 HELEN WALKER ALSO NOTICED: Author’s interview with Helen Walker Day.

296 THAT SUMMER, JANET FLANNER: Janet Flanner, Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939, The Viking Press, 1972, p. 220.

296 ALAN IMPRESSED HELEN: Author’s interview with Helen Walker Day.

297 ALAN ADMITTED: Alan Campbell letter to Alexander Woollcott, August 1939, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

297 KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIBROIDS: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, December 1940, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

298 HE WAS ASTONISHED: Alan Campbell letter to Alexander Woollcott, December 1940, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

298 CONVALESCING: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, December 1940, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

298 ROBERT BENCHLEY DESCRIBED HIM: Robert Benchley letter to Gertrude Benchley, December 29, 1940, Mugar Library, Boston University.

299 THE POOR SON-OF-BITCH: Frank Scully, Rogues Gallery, Murray and Gee, 1943, p. 269.

299 SHE HAD MADE POSSIBLE: Author’s interview with Albert Hackett.

299 BENCHLEY TOLD THE MURPHYS: Robert Benchley letter to Sara and Gerald Murphy, July 1, 1937.

300 SCRATCH AN ACTOR: Author’s interview with Albert Hackett.

300 WHAT AM I DOING WITH HIM: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

300 WHAT AM I DOING IN HOLLYWOOD: Author’s interview with Albert Hackett.

300 IT’S THE CURVED LIPS : Author’s interview with Henry Ephron.

300 GROWING RECKLESS: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

300 SAID RUTH GOETZ: Ibid.

301 DOROTHY HAS BEEN HEARD TO SAY: Sid Perelman letter to Ruth and Augustus Goetz, April 10, 1940.

302 RUTH GOETZ CALLED HIM: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

302 SID PERELMAN, SPECULATING: Sid Perelman letter to Ruth and Augustus Goetz, April 10, 1940.

302 SHE BITTERLY DESCRIBED: Writers at Work, p. 75.

303 SHE WAS, AFTER ALL: Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker, Random House, 1975, p. 264.

303 CLEARLY HER SO-CALLED FRIENDS: Prescott, p. 7

304 NEGLECTING TO MENTION: Harold Guinzburg letter to Dorothy Parker, July 12, 1937.

304 TO ALAN,: Harold Guinzburg letter to Alan Campbell, July 12, 1937. Even though Dorothy felt no need of a literary agent, some of the tasks that an agent ordinarily handles were taken care of by Harold Guinzburg or Alan. In his agent role, Alan tended to be quite haughty. When, for example, a biographical dictionary asked for information, he forwarded the request to Toni Strassman at Viking with a disdainful note saying that he simply could not imagine his wife writing “an informal, first-person autobiographical sketch of about five hundred words.”

304 GOD DAMN IT: Parker, New Masses, March 14, 1939.

305 HE “THOUGHT IT WAS A SCREAM” : Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Bugbee, March 24, 1939, in Mother Jones, February/ March 1986, p. 41.

305 THEIR VILLAGE: Parker, “Soldiers of the Republic,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 168.

306 SHE SAID: Dorothy Parker telegram to Harold Guinzburg, April 25, 1938.

306 HE SCOLDED HER: Harold Guinzburg letter to Dorothy Parker, April 27, 1938.

306 HE HAD SENT HER: Harold Guinzburg letter to Dorothy Parker, November 3, 1936.

307 THE MAN SAID: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 188.

307 IN THE SUMMER OF 1941: Robert Benchley to Gertrude Benchley, July 2, 1941, Mugar Library, Boston University.

307 ON HER BIRTHDAY: Dorothy Parker letter to Harold Ross, August 22, 1941.

308 “MY,” DOROTHY REMARKS: From Saboteur.

308 SHE CALLED HIS VALUES: Dorothy Parker to Alexander Woollcott, September 2, 1942, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

308 I WAS TOO GREEN : Author’s interview with Helen Deutsch.

309 SHE WOULD JUST HOLD OUT: Author’s interview with Joseph Bryan.

309 OUR OLD FRIEND DOTNICK: Sid Perelman to Ruth and Augustus Goetz, December 1941. Prudence Crowther, editor of Don’t Tread on Me : The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman, dates this letter March 1942.

310 NOW THE WHOLE WORLD: AIItllOr’S interview with Sally Foster.

310 WE WERE WORKING VERY HARD: Author’s interview with Henry Ephron.

311 SHE ASSURED ALECK: Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, September 2, 1942, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

311 AFTER CONFUSING THE ISSUE: Ibid.

311 HER PHILOSOPHY: Ibid.

Fifteen: The Leaking Boat

312 RELATIONS WITH HER SISTER: Dorothy had difficulty imagining her sister’s life. After Helen separated from Victor Grimwood and considered renting a small apartment in Manhattan, Dorothy was full of encouragement. She sent her a check to have “a little fun” but wondered if Helen really wished to live in the eighteen-dollar-a-week room she described. It sounded “dreary” to Dorothy, who instead recommended the Fairfax Hotel, where she could have “a great big room that sort of divides itself into a sitting room, and a sort of kitchenette—at least, with a nice ice-box, so you could give people a cocktail.” (Dorothy Parker letter to Helen Grimwood.) The rates at the Fairfax were probably beyond Helen’s means because in the end she decided to live with her daughter.

312 DESPITE HER COMPLAINTS: Ibid.

312 HER NIECE LEL: Author’s interview with Lel Iveson.

313 SHE WAS DETERMINED : Dorothy Parker letter to Alexander Woollcott, September 2, 1942, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

313 HE LATER JOKED: Harold Ross letter to Marc Connelly, September 22, 1942.

314 FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS: Author’s interview with Thomas Guinzburg.

315 ALAN LATER RECALLED: Alan Campbell letter to Alexander Woollcott, in “P.S. He Got the Job,” As You Were, The Viking Press, 1943, p. 637.

316 DESPITE HIS PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS: Joshua Logan, Movie Stars, Real Peo. ple, and Me, Delacorte Press, 1978, p. 250-1.

316 THEY WERE TERRIBLY INTIMATE: Author’s interview with Joshua Logan.

316 A BELOVED LITTLE MOUSE: Logan, p. 251.

317 WE HAVE THE ROUND TABLE: Gaines, p. 237.

317 HARPO MARX: Harpo Marx, Harpo Speaks!, Bernard Geis Associates, 1961, p. 432.

317 DOROTHY, SEATED: Ted Morgan, Maugham, Simon and Schuster, 1980, p. 472.

318 HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY: Parker untitled verse, in W. Somerset Maugham, “Variations on a Theme,” introduction to The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 600.

318 ALTHOUGH DOROTHY LATER: Morgan, p. 473.

318 IN AN ARTICLE: Excerpt reprinted in New York Times Book Review, June 24, 1945, p. 21. On the Sunday that the excerpt appeared in the Times, Dorothy was to be a weekend guest at the Kaufman farm in Bucks County. Beatrice Kaufman, shortly before her death, thought the feud between George and Dorothy was silly and hoped to reconcile them. That morning, Dorothy saw the newspaper before George came down for breakfast. Dismayed, she tucked it under her arm and thumped back to her room where she locked it in her suitcase. Kaufman, upset over the disappearance of the paper, spent the morning interrogating the servants for clues to its whereabouts.

318 ON THE OTHER HAND: Parker, “The Middle or Blue Period,” Cosmopolitan, December 1944, in The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 594.

319 PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE: Parker, “The Middle or Blue Period.”

319 WHEN SHE WAS NOTIFIED: Rosmond, p. 11.

320 AFTER BENCHLEY’S DEATH: Bruccoli, p. 181.

320 WHENEVER PEOPLE ASKED: Case, p. 60.

320 DOROTHY WAS HAPPY TO SPREAD: Richard Lamparski taped interview with Dorothy Parker.

320 THREE DECADES LATER: New York Times, October 27, 1979.

320 THOSE EYES: Benchley, p. 17.

321 BOB, DON’T YOU KNOW: Sheilah Graham, The Garden of Allah, Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 111.

322 HIS SON TIMOTHY: Author’s interview with Timothy Adams.

322 BRENDAN GILL RECALLED: Author’s interview with Brendan Gill.

323 WHEN SHE KNEW: Parker, “The Lovely Leave,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 5.

323 THE LETTERS SPELLED OUT: Logan, p. 252.

323 SHE MADE IT HOMIER: Author’s interview with Mary McDonald.

324 AT THE NEW YORKER: Author’s interview with E. J. Kahn, Jr.

324 EVERYONE MAKES A SWELL FUSS: Helen Grimwood letter to Bill Droste, ca. 1943.

324 HE HAD GAINED : Parker, “The Lovely Leave.”

325 WE GUESSED: Author’s interview with Marge Droste.

326 YOU SEE THAT: Author’s interview with William Targ.

326 DOROTHY FELT: Dorothy Parker, “Who Is That Man?” Vogue, July 1944, p. 67.

327 ONLY, FOR THE NIGHTS: Parker, “War Song,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 370.

327 ALAN EXPECTED HER: Author’s interview with Joshua Logan.

328 I CAN COMPETE : Charles Addams letter to author, February 23, 1983.

328 I’M SORRY IT’S OVER: Engle, p. 14.

328 TO HIS UNCLE: Author’s interview with Roy Eichel.

328 A COUNTRY RESIDENCE : Dorothy and Alan sold Fox House in July 1947. Over the years the farm has changed hands several times. Its present owner is Robert Yaw III.

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330 HE WAS A CONFIRMED ALCOHOLIC: Author’s interview with Joshua Logan.

330 LATER HE DESCRIBED HIMSELF: Newark News, October 15, 1961.

331 THERE WERE QUITE A FEW: Keats. p. 250.

331 COMPARED WITH ALAN: Author’s interview with Joshua Logan.

331 1 SHE WAS CONSTANTLY: Author’s interview with Joseph Bryan.

332 DON’T WORRY ABOUT THAT: A. E. Hotchner, Choice People: The Greats, Near-Greats, and Ingrates I Have Known, William Morrow, 1984, pp. 20-32.

334 REFERRING TO A FILM: Dorothy Parker/Ross Evans letter to Margo Jones, August 12, 1949, Dallas Public Library.

335 IN LETTERS: Margo Jones letters to Dorothy Parker and Ross Evans, June 6, 30, 1949, Dallas Public Library.

335 Now WE KNOW: Dorothy Parker and Ross Evans letters to Margo Jones, February 17, March 25, 1949, Dallas Public Library.

335 CRIES FOR AUTHOR: Dallas, Morning News, April 5, 1949.

335 WE’VE TASTED BLOOD: Time, April 18, 1949.

336 I SAID IT WOULDN’T WORK: Norman Mailer, “Of a small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots,” Esquire, November 1977, p. 133.

336 IN POOR HEALTH: Ross Evans letter to Margo Jones, August 12, 1949, Dallas Public Library.

336 ONE OF HER DOCTORS: Ibid.

337 BIT BY BIT: Despite extensive revisions, further productions of The Coast of Illyria failed to materialize. In England, it was rejected by every first-rate director, all of whom disliked the script. Dame Flora Robson, insufficiently impressed, could barley recall the play in 1982. (Dame Flora Robson letter to author, March 15, 1982).

338 THE REPORT: Files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles Field Office.

338 HE SAID LATER: Ross Evans letter to Margo Jones, January 27, 1951, Dallas Public Library.

338 SHE HAD NOT EXPECTED GRATITUDE : Ross Evans remained in Cuernavaca, where he eventually married and had a child. In the late 1950s, returning to the United States, he fell upon hard times and worked as a dishwasher in San Francisco and then as a Macy’s salesclerk in New York. For a time he had an affair with singer Libby Holman and lived at her Connecticut estate. An autobiographical novel begun in 1950 finally appeared in 1961 as A Feast of Fools but did not prove a critical or commercial success. When Evans died in 1967, he was 51.

339 WHO IN LIFE : Author’s interview with Albert Hackett.

339 HE QUERIED FRIENDS : Ibid.

339 A WOMAN HE HAD BEEN DATING: Author’s interview with Bob Magner.

339 YOU NEVER KNOW: Newspaper clipping, unidentified source, August 15, 1950.

339 THEY HAD NO PLANS : Doylestown Intelligencer, August 18, 1950.

339 INCLUDING THE BRIDE. Cooper, p. 112.

339 BUDD SCHULBERG DESCRIBED: Author’s interview with Budd Schulberg.

339 ALAN WAS HEARD TO REMARK: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

339 AS THE EVENING WORE ON: Dietz, p. 237.

340 IN JANUARY, HE REPORTED: Alan Campbell letter to Sara and Gerald Murphy, ca. January 1951.

341 FRANKLY, SHE FINALLY SAID: Author’s interview with Albert Hackett.

341 LISTEN, I CAN’T: Ibid.

341 DURING THE COURSE OF THIS INTERVIEW : Federal Bureau of Investigation files.

341 DEAR MR. HOOVER: Ibid.

341 SHE COULD THINK OF: Dalton Trumbo, Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, M. Evans and Co., 1970, p. 133.

342 IN 1947: New York Daily News, June 13, 1947.

342 IN NEW YORK: New York Herald Tribune, November 3, 1947.

342 STILL SHE WAS NOT CALLED: Federal Bureau of Investigation files citing 1952 speech at Abraham Lincoln Brigade/Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee meeting.

342 RED APPEASER: New York Times, June 9, 1949.

342 THE ACCUSATION MADE HER FEEL: Ibid.

342 NO DENIAL : New York World Telegram, June 8, 1949.

342 BY 1950: Federal Bureau of Investigation files, memo dated August 28, 1950.

343 THE BUREAU ALSO QUOTED: Ibid., memo dated July 19, 1950.

343 I WAS BLACKLISTED: Parker interview, Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

344 SHE KNEW NOTHING: New York Times, February 26, 1955.

344 A FOUR-PAGE MEMORANDUM: Federal Bureau of Investigation files. Even though FBI Headquarters closed her file in 1955, the New York Field Office continued to maintain its records until May 1956.

344 MR. TAVENNER: U.S. Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Moti on Picture Industry, Hearings, Eighty-second Congress, Part 1, March 8, 1951.

345 MANY HE KNEW: S. J. Perelman letter to Leila Hadley.

345 DOROTHY LIKENED: Parker speech, Seven Arts, p. 139.

346 A DISGUSTED SID PERELMAN: Sid Perelman letter to Leila Hadley, 1951.

346 BY SEPTEMBER 1952: New York World Telegram and Sun, October 16, 1953.

346 ALL SHE WANTED: Ibid.

347 WE DROPPED IT : New York Herald Tribune, October 18, 1953.

347 WE HAD BEEN THINKING: Dorothy Parker, untitled typescript, Leah Salisbury Collection, Columbia University Library.

348 WE’D ARRIVE: Quentin Reynolds, By Quentin Reynolds, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1963, p. 2.

348 SHE EDUCATED HIM: Author’s interview with Kate Mostel.

349 THEY HAVE TO ASK QUESTIONS: Kate Mostel and Madeline Gilford, 170 Years of Show Business, Random House, 1978, p. 129.

349 AN ADORING KATE MOSTEL: Author’s interview with Kate Mostel.

350 TO NORMAN MAILER: Mailer, p. 132.

350 THAT WAS REALLY THE DRUNKEST: Author’s interview with Kate Mostel.

350 ANOTHER EVENING AT THE MOSTELS: Author’s interviews with Ian Hunter, Kate Mostel.

350 BY THE TIME: New York Herald Tribune, October 18, 1953.

351 WALTER MATTHAU REMEMBERED: Walter Matthau letter to author, May 3, 1982.

351 THE FIRST DAY OF REHEARSAL: Harold Clurman interview, Columbia Oral History Research Office.

351 DOROTHY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INSANE: Dorothy Parker interview, Columbia Oral History Research Office.

351 SOME OF THE REVIEWS: Mostel and Gilford, p. 130.

351 IT WAS, HE THOUGHT: New York Journal-American, April 4, 1954.

352 WHEN THE GOOD NEWS: Office memo dated October 14, 1955, Leah Salisbury Collection, Columbia University Library.

352 THE SUBJECT OF HOMOSEXUALITY: Author’s interview with Robert Whitehead.

Seventeen: High-Forceps Deliveries

354 FOR COMIC RELIEF: William Maxwell letter to author, February 21, 1983.

355 I HAVEN’T GOT : Malcolm Cowley, —And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978, The Vi. king Press, 1978, p. 181.

355 IN 1955: Writers at Work, p. 80.

355 IN HER DEALINGS WITH WILLIAM MAXWELL: Author’s interview with William Maxwell.

356 SEEING THE REVIEW : Author’s interview with Harold Hayes.

357 BUT, RECALLED GINGRICH: Arnold Gingrich, Nothing but People: The Early Days at Esquire, A Personal History 1928-1958, Crown Publishers, 1971, p. 301.

357 HE VIEWED HIS OWN JOB: Arnold Gingrich letter to Bernard Geis, August 30, 1962, Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

359 BERNARD GEIS ADMITTED: Bernard Geis letter to author, March 17, 1982.

359 DOROTHY CONFIDED IN QUENTIN REYNOLDS: Reynolds, p. 6.

359 DEAR BERNIE: Dorothy Parker letter to Bernard Geis, ca. 1960.

360 GEIS FELT HAPPY: Bernard Geis letter to author, March 17, 1982.

360 DEAR DOROTHY: Leah Salisbury letter to Dorothy Parker, September 11, 1957, Leah Salisbury Collection.

360 I HAD ONLY ONE LYRIC: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

361 LEONARD BERNSTEIN RECALLED: Leonard Bernstein statement to author, January 26, 1983.

361 I’VE GOT TROUBLES: Lillian Hellman. Candide: A Comic Operetta Based on Voltaire’s Satire, score by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, other lyrics by John Latouche and Dorothy Parker, Random House, 1957. “Gavotte” lyrics by Dorothy Parker, Act 2, Scene 2, pp. 127-8.

361 THE SHOW WAS, SHE THOUGHT: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

362 AFTER FRIENDS ADVISED HER: Dorothy Parker letter to Malcolm Cowley, April 4, 1958, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

362 TO DOROTHY PARKER: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters citation.

362 IN 1958 STANDING OVATIONS : Malcolm Cowley to author, November 17, 1982.

363 MY DRIVING IDEA: Dorothy Parker letter to Elizabeth Ames, April 11, 1958, Yaddo.

363 THE TWO YOUNG LADIES : Dorothy Parker letter to Morton Zabel, October 27, 1958, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago.

364 I CAN ONLY SAY: Dorothy Parker letter to Morton Zabel, ca. November 1958, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago.

364 ALTHOUGH THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE : Dorothy Parker letter to Elizabeth Ames, ca. November 1958, Yaddo.

364 BROOKS TERMED HER: Van Wyck Brooks, “Nomination of Candidate,” National Institute of Arts and Letters.

364 THE INSTITUTE INSISTED : Writers at Work, p. 77.

364 DEAR MISS GEFFEN: Dorothy Parker letter to Felicia Geffen, 1959, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

365 I NEVER THOUGHT I’D MAKE IT: Richard Wilbur letter to author, July 26, 1982.

365 AFTERWARD, THORNTON WILDER: Thornton Wilder letter to Frank Sullivan, undated, quoted in Gilbert A. Harrison, The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder, Tick-nor & Fields, 1983, p. 319.

365 HER GAFFE: Richard Wilbur letter to author, April 28, 1982.

366 SHE KEPT REMARKING- Leslie Fiedler letter to author, May 24, 1982.

366 THERE CRIES THE WOLF: Dorothy Parker draft of speech, R. G. Davis Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

367 SHE WAS, SAUL BELLOW THOUGHT: Saul Bellow letter to author, June 16, 1982.

367 HE THOUGHT SHE HAD BEEN: Arnold Gingrich letter to Dorothy Parker, October 23, 1958, Bentley Historical Library.

367 I TURNED MY FACE: Dorothy Parker letter to Morton Zabel, ca. October 27, 1958, Joseph Regenstein Library.

367 THAT AWFUL MAN: Author’s interview with Noel Pugh.

368 NO, SHE PROTESTED: Mailer, p. 134.

368 DOROTHY, WROTE EDMUND WILSON: Edmund Wilson, The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, Leon Edel ed., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986, p. 531.

369 HELLMAN RECALLED: Lillian Hellman and Peter S. Feibleman, Eating Together: Recipes and Recollections, Little, Brown and Co., 1984, p. 76.

370 THEN, WILBUR RECALLED: Richard Wilbur letter to author, April 28, 1982.

370 SHE SAID PRETTILY : Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 192.

371 TO BE ANTI-COMMUNIST: Gerald Murphy letter to Sara Murphy, quoted in Honoria Murphy Donnelly and Richard N. Billings, Sara and Gerald: Villa America and After, Times Books, 1982, p. 211.

372 DOROTHY PASTED THE CLIPPING: Dorothy Parker letter to Sara and Gerald Murphy, July 1, 1958.

372 EXPLAINED AN ACQUAINTANCE: Author’s interview with William Lord.

373 THIS LAST CRACK: Charles Addams letter to author, February 23, 1983.

373 IT WAS A TERRIBLE THING: Bob Thomas, “Feminine Wit Mourns State of U.S. Humor,” Associated Press, January 15, 1951.

373 SHE TOLD TALLULAH: Kiernan Tunney, Tallulah, Darling of the Gods, E.P. Dutton and Co., 1973, p. 11.

373 HER STAGE FRIGHT: Author’s interview with Shepperd Strudwick.

374 OFTEN HE HAD TO LIVE: Author’s interview with Betty Moodie.

375 LONELINESS AND GUILT: Cooper, p. 111.

Eighteen: Ham and Cheese, Hold the Mayo

377 I’M A HOBO: Los Angeles Times, June 18, 1962.

377 SHE WROTE THAT THE TWO THINGS: Parker, “Books,” Esquire, June 1961, p. 38.

378 IF BY ANY CHANCE: Alan Campbell letter to Sara and Gerald Murphy, November 29, 1961.

379 SEEING THE PARKING LOT: Cooper, 111.

380 AFTERWARD, DOROTHY SAID IN DISGUST: New York Herald Tribune, October 13, 1963.

380 WHENEVER THE GOOD SOUP WAS MENTIONED: Author’s interview with Dana Woodbury.

380 HE WAS HARD: Author’s interview with Clara Lester.

381 SHE FINALLY COOED: Author’s interview with Dana Woodbury.

381 MISS PARKER, HE CONFESSED: Author’s interview with Robert Rothwell.

382 AT PARTIES, RECALLED CLEMENT BRACE: Author’s interview with Clement Brace.

382 SAID DANA WOODBURY: Author’s interview with Dana Woodbury.

382 HE WAS NOT A QUEEN: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

383 JUST WHO THE HELL: Author’s interview with Dana Woodbury.

383 AFTER THE GOOD SOUP: Dorothy Parker letter to Leah Salisbury, January 25, 1962, Leah Salisbury Collection.

383 DEAR LEAH: Dorothy Parker telegram to Leah Salisbury, February 13, 1962, Leah Salisbury Collection, Columbia University.

383 NINA FOCH RECALLED: Author’s interview with Nina Foch.

383 DOROTHY INSISTED : New York Times, May 6, 1962.

383 HE WAS, ACCORDING TO LEVY: Author’s interview with Ralph Levy.

384 NOT TOO LONG AGO: New York Times, May 6, 1962.

384 SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Dorothy Parker letter to Leah Salisbury, March 9, 1962, Leah Salisbury Collection.

384 SHE TOLD THE NEW YORK TIMES: New York Times, May 6, 1962.

384 IT WAS AWFUL: Dorothy Parker/ Alan Campbell letter to Leah Salisbury, September 19, 1962, Leah Salisbury Collection.

385 DOROTHY HATED: Ibid.

385 ALL ALONG SHE HAD INSISTED: New York Times, May 6, 1962.

386 PARKER LADD ARRANGED: Dorothy Parker and Frederick Shroyer, Short Story: A Thematic Anthology, Charles Scribner’s, 1965.

386 LADD REMEMBERED: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

386 ALAN, DAPPER IN SILK ASCOT: Author’s interview with Lois Battle.

387 DOROTHY, ONLY TOO EAGER: Lois Battle, “A Wink at a Cock-eyed World,” UCLA Daily Bruin, February 16, 1962.

387 DOROTHY LIKENED ALAN: Author’s interview with Dana Woodbury.

387 DOROTHY, RECALLED MIRANDA LEVY: Author’s interview with Miranda Levy.

388 THE DOGGIES: Author’s interview with Frederick Shroyer.

388 QUESTIONED BY A REPORTER: Los Angeles Times, June 18, 1962.

388 I SENT IT: Cooper, p. 112.

388 DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Arnold Gingrich letter to Dorothy Parker, February 4, 1963, Bentley Historical Library.

389 THEREFORE, HE WAS JOLTED: Arnold Gingrich to Arthur Kinney, May 10, 1963, Bentley Historical Library.

389 SHE HAD IMAGINED: Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1963.

390 I NEVER GIVE A BAD MARK: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

390 AS PARKER LADD CAME TO REALIZE: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

390 TO SOME OF HIS NEIGHBORS: Author’s interview with Bob Tallman and Bob Magner.

390 ALAN EVEN HAD TO TAKE: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 193.

391 PUGH NOTICED THAT: Author’s interview with Noel Pugh.

391 DOROTHY WAS NOT ABOVE: Ibid.

392 WHEN CLARA LESTER ARRIVED: All-thor’s interview with Clara Lester.

392 HE FELT STRANGE: Cooper, p. 113.

393 THE CORONER’S REPORT: Certificate of Death No. 63-084891. State of California Dept. of Public Health.

393 I DON’T THINK: Author’s interview with Nina Foch.

393 SHE ASKED ME WHAT SHOULD BE DONE: Author’s interview with Roy Eichel.

393 GET ME A NEW HUSBAND: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 199.

394 IF SHE HAD ANY DECENCY: New York Herald Tribune, October 13, 1963.

394 PERHAPS THE PERSON: Author’s interview with Noel Pugh.

395 WE DON’T HAVE ANY LIQUOR: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

395 FRED SHROYER: Author’s interview with Frederick Shroyer.

395 YOU SHOULDN’T: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

395 WHEN SHE STEPPED: Author’s interview with Nina Foch.

396 YOU HAVE TO COME OVER HERE: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

396 WOULDN’T YOU KNOW IT: Ibid.

396 SHE WANTED TO MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP: New York Herald Tribune, April 8, 1965.

397 SEVERAL TIMES LEVY HEARD HER: Author’s interview with Miranda Levy.

397 IF SHE HAD BOUGHT: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

Nineteen: Lady of the Corridor

398 FOR THE REMAINDER : Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

398 SHE MADE JOKES: New York World-Telegram, August 3, 1965.

399 SHE IMPRESSED MILFORD: Author’s interview with Nancy Milford.

399 MEETING HER AT A PARTY: Author’s interview with Stella Adler.

399 AS HIS WIDOW: Author’s interview with Rebecca Bernstien.

400 I CAN’T USE MY TYPEWRITER: New York Herald Tribune, April 8, 1965.

400 I AM ALWAYS A LITTLE SAD: Dorothy Parker, “New York at 6:30 P.M.,” Es. quire, November 1964, p. 101.

401 OVER THE YEARS: Dorothy Parker, “Oscar Levant,” in Roddy McDowall, Double Exposure, Delacorte Press, 1966, p. 42.

401 WHEN DOROTHY LEARNED OF IT: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, pp. 194—5.

402 SHE HAD BEEN OHLIGED: Leah Salisbury letter to Dorothy Parker, March 9, 1964, Leah Salisbury Collection.

402 A STORY ON THE SOCIETY PAGE: New York Herald Tribune, April 8, 1965.

403 THAT WASN’T THE CASE: Author’s interview with Andrew Anspach.

403 SHE VENTED: Cooper, p. 114.

403 GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

404 AS A JOKE: New York Herald Tribune , April 8, 1965.

404 THEY WERE AS BAD: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

404 HER OTHER PASTIME: Ibid.

405 DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS: Author’s interview with Heywood Hale Broun.

405 RUTH GOETZ DISCOVERED: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

406 DOROTHY’S ALCOHOLISM: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, pp. 193—4.

406 WHEN JOSEPH BRYAN TELEPHONED: Author’s interview with Joseph Bryan.

406 FEW NEW PEOPLE: Dorothy Parker, “Not Enough,” New Masses, March 14, 1939, p. 4.

406 SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE AGREED: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, p. 194.

406 THE FALL SHE RETURNED: Dorothy Parker telegram to Sara Murphy, October 20, 1964.

406 SHE COMPLAINED : Cooper, p. 114.

406 AS HE WAS LEAVING: Author’s interview with Frederick Shroyer.

407 WHEN SHE BROUGHT HER: Leah Salisbury letter to Lillian Hellman, July 5, 1967, Leah Salisbury Collection.

408 1 CAN’T WRITE: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

408 IT WOULD GIVE HER: Cooper, p. 57.

408 THE TAPINGS: Wyatt Cooper quoted from these 1967 tapes in his Esquire profile written the year after Dorothy’s death. Upon Cooper’s death in 1978, the tapes passed into the possession of his widow, who declines to make them public.

408 MY WIFE, WROTE COOPER: Cooper, p. 114.

409 HAVE YOU BEEN INVITED: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

409 OH, YES, SHE FLUTED: Cooper, p. 114.

409 I COULD NOT HEAR A WORD: Louis Auchincloss letter to author, May 1982.

410 SHE’S GONE. Guiles, p. 285.

410 A FEW MINUTES LATER: Unidentified newspaper clipping.

411 THE STORY HAD BEGUN: New York Times, June 8, 1967.

411 KATE MOSTEL RECALLED: Author’s interview with Kate Mostel.

411 IF SHE HAD HER WAY: New York Times, June 10, 1967.

411 AFTER THE MOURNERS: Ibid.

411 OH, LET IT BE: Parker, “Testament,” The Portable Dorothy Parker, p. 92.

412 AS ONE OF HER BIOGRAPHERS: Moody, p. 347.

413 IT’S ONE THING: Nora Ephron, “Lillian Hellman Walking, Cooking, Writing, Talking—” New York Times Book Review , September 23, 1973, p. 51.

413 TO PLAYWRIGHT HOWARD TEICHMANN: William Wright, Lillian Hellman, the Image, the Woman, Simon & Schuster, 1986, p. 311.

413 ACCORDING TO HELLMAN’S MEMOIRS: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, pp. 196—8.

413 AS MARTHA GELLHORN WROTE: Gellhorn, p. 296.

414 I COULD WRITE YOU SO MUCH: Frank Sullivan letter to Ann Honeycutt, June 13, 1967, in Sullivan, pp. 214—15.