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round table: plays about war dances
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young, exuberant wits, Robert Sherwood among them, regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… Naturally, in such a world, Robert Sherwood was … Continue reading
algonquin hotel: robert e. sherwood
Lunch at the Algonquin hotel was a study in public relations and a spectacle in itself. The participants formed the “vicious circle” and they represented the high spirits of the 1920’s. This circle of mainly young, exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era … Continue reading
algonquin: on broadway
The theatre, a fever in the bloodstream of the twenties, was an epidemic among the Round Tablers. Most of them were seized with a desire to write plays, and sooner or later, in Robert Sherwood’s fashion, most of them did, … Continue reading
algonquin: the vicious circle
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of mainly young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table in New York’s Algonquin hotel. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… Franklin Pierce Adams, with whom Robert … Continue reading
algonquin: american originals
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table in the Algonquin hotel. Named the “vicious circle,” nothing quite like them has been seen since… Robert Sherwood took to … Continue reading
algonquin: keeping the demons at bay
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young, exuberant wits ( Robert Sherwood, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker among them ) regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table and Algonquin Hotel and they were branded the “vicious … Continue reading
algonquin round table: fun with the pun
High Spirits in the 1920’s. A circle of young and exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… …If insults were their favorite weapons for demolishing adversaries, or even those … Continue reading
algonquin hotel: wildfire with words
The round table at the Algonquin hotel. The high spirits of the 1920’s. Raring twenty-somethings and roaring wits. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table.Nothing quite like them has been seen since… …As … Continue reading
algonquin: case study
The forming of the Algonquin Hotel table round is formed. The chiefs take places… …In May 1920, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood again found themselves together in New York, only this time they were without Vanity Fair. In … Continue reading
algonquin hotel: regaling Dry-Era America
The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since…. Conde Nast. Old school ethics meets the twenty-somethings of the Algonquin round … Continue reading
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