Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (79 page)

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.

Sixteen: Toad Time

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.