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Brock Pemberton, From Kansas to the Great White Way
History, News

Brock Pemberton, From Kansas to the Great White Way

Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of the most overlooked members of the Algonquin Round Table, namely, Brock Pemberton. His brother, Murdock Pemberton, gets barely more attention than his far more successful sibling. Let’s take a short … Read the rest

December 14, 20221 Min Reading
Frank Sullivan of Saratoga Springs
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Frank Sullivan of Saratoga Springs

After the demise of the New York World in 1931, Algonquin Round Table member Frank Sullivan moved home to Saratoga Springs and became the ultimate freelancer. In a small clapboard house shared with his sister at 135 Lincoln Avenue, he … Read the rest

July 30, 20221 Min Reading
Centennial of Abie’s Irish Rose
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Centennial of Abie’s Irish Rose

Today the New York Times published a very thorough and detailed account of the centennial of Abie’s Irish Rose, a hit show 100 years ago that the Algonquin Round Table by turns roasted and scorned. The article quotes Robert … Read the rest

May 12, 20221 Min Reading
Ruth Hale the Iconoclast
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Ruth Hale the Iconoclast

There was no bigger iconoclast sitting at the Algonquin Round Table than Ruth Hale; None of the members had a gloomier end to their life than she did. She is one of the six female Algonquin regulars that are overlooked.… Read the rest

April 25, 2022April 26, 20221 Min Reading
Heywood Broun on Being Fired in the Spring, Summer, and Winter (Summer is Best)
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Heywood Broun on Being Fired in the Spring, Summer, and Winter (Summer is Best)

This is one of the very last columns that Heywood Broun ever published. Broun ran his own bi-weekly newspaper, Nutmeg (later called Broun’s Nutmeg) in Stamford, Connecticut, where he resided. It was in operation in the late 1930s, and … Read the rest

March 1, 2022March 1, 20221 Min Reading
A Look at Laurence Stallings, Writer
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A Look at Laurence Stallings, Writer

Laurence Tucker Stallings is mentioned about three times a year by the pop culture world. Usually it has to do with his screenwriting hits The Big Parade or She Wore A Yellow Ribbon appearing on television. There has only been … Read the rest

November 25, 2021November 25, 20211 Min Reading
The Years With Ross by Thurber Gets A Reboot
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The Years With Ross by Thurber Gets A Reboot

James Thurber was not a founding member of The New Yorker, he joined about one year after the first issue rolled off the presses in February 1925. He was hired by cofounder Harold Ross because Thurber had newspaper experience, … Read the rest

July 21, 2021July 21, 20211 Min Reading
I Found Frank Case
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I Found Frank Case

I found Frank Case. I wasn’t even looking for him. I was in Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, Long Island, for the first time. I was actually looking for a Doughboy for our WWI Homecoming 21 project. As I was … Read the rest

May 5, 2021November 25, 20211 Min Reading
Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Robert Benchley
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Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Robert Benchley

Seventy-five years ago today, hard-working Robert Charles Benchley died in his hospital room. He was just 56 years old. Benchley, once the country’s premier humorist, had stayed active until the end. In 1933, he began his first radio show, broadcast … Read the rest

November 21, 2020November 21, 20201 Min Reading
5 Things You Don’t Know About Herman J. Mankiewicz
News

5 Things You Don’t Know About Herman J. Mankiewicz

The trailer has been released for the new David Fincher-directed film Mank, about Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz. The movie will come out in theaters in November and on Netflix in December. Mank is only the second biographical … Read the rest

October 8, 2020October 9, 20201 Min Reading
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Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press)
Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press)
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