Opening Night on Broadway
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Opening Night on Broadway
QueenieOBrien Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:39 pm
Amusing stories for The New Yorker Magazine. Visit WRITINGS under FORUMS.
Leslie enjoyed the company of writers and frequented the famed roundtable at the Algonquin Hotel where wits like Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley gathered to drink martinis and outwit the wits.
Leslie describes critic "George Jean Nathan—that rude little Homo Sapiens." who opines
“The Green Hat” is flapdoodle" The critics."Note further that Leslie Howard is also in the cast. He is likened, wittily, to everything from an undertaker to the leaning tower of Pisa."
- Oct. 31, 1925: The Intimate Diary of an Opening Night: http://www.lesliehowardsociety.org/riservato/pdf/newyorker1.pdf
Leslie enjoyed the company of writers and frequented the famed roundtable at the Algonquin Hotel where wits like Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley gathered to drink martinis and outwit the wits.
Leslie describes critic "George Jean Nathan—that rude little Homo Sapiens." who opines“The Green Hat” is flapdoodle" The critics."Note further that Leslie Howard is also in the cast. He is likened, wittily, to everything from an undertaker to the leaning tower of Pisa."
- Oct. 31, 1925: The Intimate Diary of an Opening Night: http://www.lesliehowardsociety.org/riservato/pdf/newyorker1.pdf
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