Wonderful Nonsense: The Algonquin Roundtable | Historical Documentary

YouTube ^ | 2007 | Lucas Film

[nopardons]

BTTT

[PerConPat]

Must have been a great experience for you... The Algonquin Round Table was also known as the “Vicious Circle”. No doubt a repartee free-for-all...

[KamperKen]

I visited the Algonquin on my last visit to NYC. The original round table and the room it was in no longer exist. They had a faux round table for the gawking tourists like myself though they don’t tell one it’s not the original.

[wardaddy]

I should I knew Nicky who was Noel’s last paramour well
Coward was of course before my time
Nicky was quite a blade and raconteur in his own right admittedly

My girlfriend then was a Caribbean heiress to the areas largest rum and beer and beverage fortune based in Kingston

They all know each other Caribbean aristocrats who overlap with the Brits

[Chickensoup]

The essential Dorothy Parker is a good short read. I grew up on the new Yorker and have a shelf full of books about the era.

[windcliff]

Ping

[wardaddy]

👊

[PerConPat]

While not a fan of their lifestyles, I would have admired to be sitting around a piano lounge with Sir Noël Peirce Coward and Cole Albert Porter.

As a past competitor in a certain Nob Hill bar's games of 'Six Degrees of Separation", I recall Porter immortalized Dorothy Parker in one of his ditties (It Was Just One of Those Things"

I wouldn't be surprised if Porter dropped into the Algonquin...." now and then".

[wardaddy]

Gays are like Jews often

Sharp wit

[PerConPat]

LOL...I learned that the hard way, back in my salad days.